Escaping poverty Can policy reach the chronically poor?: id21 insights, issue 46

The past few years have seen remarkable consensus on and commitment to poverty reduction from governments around the world. This has resulted in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which seek to reduce global absolute poverty by 50 per cent by 2015 and to reduce other forms of human deprivation.

Articles included:

• Lost in space:  Moore, K.
• Staying poor in South Africa: Swardt, C and du Toit, A.
• ‘We were born poor and we’ll die poor’: Harper, C., Marcus, R. and Moore, K.
• Poverty and disability: Moore, K and Yeo, R.
• Climbing out of chronic poverty: Matin, I and Hulme, D.
• Reducing chronic poverty: Hickey, S.
• On the street: destitution:  Harriss-White, B.
• Whose data?: Hulme, D.