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Financial diaries: investigating the financial lives of the poor in South Africa
Financial Diaries, 2005This brief presents findings from a study into the financial lives of the poor in South Africa. It aims to contribute to understanding how formal and informal financial instruments are used in the struggle against poverty.DocumentPoverty monitoring systems: an analysis of institutional arrangements in Tanzania
Overseas Development Institute, 2005This paper is an examination of the design and functioning of poverty monitoring systems (PMS) in countries with national poverty-reduction strategies (PRS).DocumentOn assessing pro-poorness of government programmes: international comparisons
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005This paper proposes a new "Pro-Poor Policy (PPP)" index, which measures the pro-poorness of government programmes, as well as basic service delivery in education, health and infrastructure.DocumentPoverty monitoring systems: an analysis of institutional arrangements in Uganda
Overseas Development Institute, 2005This report describes and analyses institutional arrangements for poverty monitoring in Uganda. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of what works and what doesn’t in designing PRS (Poverty Reduction Strategy) monitoring systems, as well as recommending the way forward for poverty monitoring in Uganda.DocumentExploring the structured dynamics of chronic poverty: a sociological approach
ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004The dominant forms of international poverty research involve statistical analyses of household surveys and 'qualitative' information produced using 'participatory' techniques. The expertises of other social scientists are rarely used to inform development policy.DocumentIraq living conditions survey 2004; volume II: analytical report
United Nations Development Programme, 2005This book reports on the results of the Iraq Living Conditions Survey (ILCS) survey and analyses the living conditions in Iraq as they were approximately one year after the fall of the Saddam Hussein's regime.DocumentMeasuring individual vulnerability
Oxford University Library, 2005Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. This implies that there is no meaningful role for risk as part of an assessment of potentially low states of well-being. This paper introduces a concept of vulnerability, as a threat of poverty, with downside risk at its core.DocumentPoverty, inequality and labour markets in Africa: a descriptive overview
Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2005This paper examines the poverty, inequality and labour market challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The paper illustrates that apart from levels of poverty and inequality that are inordinately high in SSA, the region is also beset with the problem of accounting for almost all of the world’s ultra-poor: namely those individuals living on less than half of the standard $1 a day poverty line.DocumentUnderstanding urban chronic poverty: crossing the qualitative
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2005This paper summarises the recent quantitative and qualitative evidence on urban poverty in Ethiopia. The author contends that the analysis of poverty dynamics is difficult and has been neglected, hence most of the studies reviewed here focus on urban poverty at a particular point in time.DocumentChinese Boxes: whatever happened to poverty ?
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005This article highlights some key issues in the debate over the scale and trend of poverty in China and its implications for global poverty assessments. Its commentary is based on the review of a recent research article, by Reddy and Miniou (RM), on poverty measurement in China.Pages