This study examines the relationship between natural hazard-related disasters and child and adolescent poverty in India and Kenya. It explores these connections through a lifecycle approach focusing on the incidence of child poverty and longer-term poverty dynamics and wellbeing.
Read MoreThe Political Economy of Sustained Escapes from Poverty in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania
This paper examines the politics of poverty reduction in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Rwanda using the political settlements framework. It discusses the extent to which the political settlement prevailing in any country influences the consistency and quality of policy making and the success or failure of anti-poverty policies and initiatives
Read MoreTrends in poverty and inequality and further clustering of developing countries
The objective of this study is to provide an in-depth review of the evidence on poverty and associated inequalities, and on what reduces them, in order to inform the European Union’s reflections on implementing the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
Read MoreSustaining escapes from poverty
To date, there is little knowledge about what differentiates a sustained escape from a temporary escape, or these from chronic poverty. The principal objective of this research is to develop an understanding of why some households managed to sustain their escapes out of extreme poverty while others fell back into poverty.
Read MoreUnderstanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation: Tanzania National Report
This report focuses on household poverty escapes in Tanzania and explains why some households escape poverty and remain out of poverty (sustainable poverty escape, or resilience), while other households escape poverty only to fall back into poverty (transitory poverty escape) or descend into poverty for the first time (impoverishment).
Read MoreUnderstanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation: Philippines National Report
This report investigates the drivers of sustained and transitory escapes from poverty in the Philippines
Read MoreUnderstanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation: Tanzania National Report
This study aimed to explore the factors that sustain escapes from poverty in Tanzania, including pathways out of poverty, the policies/programmes/strategies and institutions that sustain poverty escapes and create resilience, and the effect of political settlements in supporting and sustaining poverty escapes.
Read MoreUnderstanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation: Ethiopia National Report
This study aimed to interrogate the common factors behind sustained escapes from poverty, as well as policy measures that supported such escapes in Ethiopia.
Read MoreRESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE POVERTY ESCAPES IN RURAL KENYA - Country Report
The report investigates the resources (land, livestock, and assets), attributes (household composition and education level), and activities (including jobs and engagement in non-farm activities) of households that enable them to escape poverty sustainably and minimise the likelihood of returning to living in poverty again
Read MoreRESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE POVERTY ESCAPES IN NEPAL - National Report
The focus of this report is on household poverty escapes and what explains why some households escape poverty and remain out of poverty, while other households escape poverty only to fall back into poverty and still other descend into poverty for the first time.
Read MoreUnderstanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation - Rwanda Quantitative Study
If we want to continue to reduce poverty in Rwanda, we have to look at the determinants of poverty in the country and generate new ways to tackle it, as well as continuing along existing paths, where appropriate. Identifying the determinants of poverty will help us to fight poverty in a sustainable way. This paper investigates how.
Read MoreUnderstanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation - Tanzania Quantitative Study
This study explores the nature of poverty dynamics in Tanzania using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey, spanning 2008 and 2013, and estimates the correlates for such dynamics
Read MoreUnderstanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation - Tanzania Qualitative Study
This study look at poverty dynamics in Tanzania under a qualitative approach.
Read MoreUnderstanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation - Ethiopia Quantitative Study
This study aims to increase the understanding of the factors associated with impoverishment and sustained escapes from poverty and of how policies and programmes can support these escapes in Ethiopia.
Read MoreUnderstanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation - Ethiopia Qualitative Study
This report presents the major findings of a qualitative study carried out in four selected areas of Ethiopia. The purpose of the study was to understand the factors in and processes related to sustained escape from poverty. It also aimed to establish the major political, economic and social contextual factors and changes that shape the pathways of different social groups.
Read MoreUnderstanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation - Synthesis Report
The overall aim of this project is to increase our understanding of the factors associated with sustained escapes from poverty, of how policies and programmes can support these escapes and the political and institutional pre-conditions under which these policies can successfully be initiated.
Read MoreUnpacking Disability-Extreme Poverty Links in Bangladesh through Household Income and Expenditure Survey: A Quantitative Exercise
Persons with disability are often considered as a specific chronic poverty group. However, little empirical evidence exists for developing countries on the size of disabled population. Even less is known about the interface between disability and poverty. The present study aims to provide statistically robust analysis of the state of disability and its interface with poverty and vulnerability through different pathways.
Authors: Binayak Sen, Mainul Hoque
Read MorePractical measures to enable the economic empowerment of chronically poor women
This paper focuses on the economic empowerment of poor and very poor women and girls. Advice on the practical interventions to enable WEE is rarely disaggregated by the intersecting inequalities that magnify poverty and inequality. As such, it fails to address the significant barriers to WEE for chronically poor women. This paper seeks to fill this gap in the literature.
Read More(In)tangible assets: The road to economically empowering poor women in Bangladesh and Nigeria
This report assesses drivers of the economic empowerment of chronically poor women and girls in rural Bangladesh and rural Nigeria. The focus is on drivers related to assets, both intangibly in terms of education, and tangibly in terms of ownership of consumption and productive assets including land.
Read MoreThe potential for inclusive green agricultural transformation: creating sustainable livelihoods through an agroecological approach in Tanzania
This paper explores agroecology as an alternative approach to agricultural transformation, offering low-input but knowledge intensive agriculture as a more inclusive and sustainable way forwards.
Authors: Anna Mdee, Alex Wostry, Andrew Coulson & Janet Maro
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