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Title

Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09 : escaping poverty traps / report was written by Tony Addison [and others].

Publication

[Manchester] ; [U.K.] : Chronic Poverty Research Centre, [2008]

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Additional Authors

• Addison, Tony.
• Chronic Poverty Research Centre.

Description

xvi, 148 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm +

Alternative Title

Escaping poverty traps

Subject

• Poverty
• Poor > Services for
• Developing Countries > economics

Note

• Cover title.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available via the World Wide Web.

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• System requirements: Adobe Reader.

Contents

PART A -- Chronic poverty as a key policy issue -- Chapter 1: Foundations for understanding and challenging chronic poverty -- A. Chronic poverty and justice -- B. The nature and extent of chronic poverty : What is chronic poverty? What causes chronic poverty? Who is chronically poor? Where do they live? How many chronically poor people are there? -- C. Why address chronic poverty? -- D. How to address chronic poverty? Policies against chronic poverty -- preventing entries and promoting exits -- E. Chronically Deprived Countries and Consistent Improvers -- F. Conclusion -- Chapter 2: The policy and political challenge -- A. Introduction -- B. Where are the chronically poor in PRSs? -- Disaggregating the poor in PRSs -- C. Policy responses/policy choices in PRSs -- Broad growth policies Sectoral policies Direct policies -- D. Political systems and ownership -- E. Institutional mainstreaming and participation of the poor -- F. Implementation -- Obstacles to implementation -- G. Conclusion -- PART B -- Four sets of policies for poverty eradication -- Chapter 3: Addressing insecurity through social protection -- A. Introduction -- B. The central role of vulnerability -- C. The importance of social protection -- D. Lessons from existing social protection programmes and policies -- Policies, institutions and tools Identifying and overcoming obstacles to social assistance -- The politics of initiating social protection -- Poverty discourse, ideology and selection of beneficiaries -- Challenging the dependency thesis -- Social protection to foster the social compact -- E. Country context -- Contextualising social protection How to escape the 'social protection trap' in a Chronically Deprived Country? -- F. Conclusion -- The Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09 -- Chapter 4: Economic growth and chronic poverty -- A. Introduction -- B. Poor people and the growth process -- C. Disaggregation matters for policy -- D. Transformative growth -- Developmental States E. Growth and strategic choices 63 Making agriculture work for the chronically poor: infrastructure, education, information Strategic urbanisation and reducing spatial inequalities -- F. Social protection as a policy lever for growth in Chronically Deprived Countries -- G. Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- Transformative social change -- A. Introduction -- B. Gender equality, social inclusion and increased 'agency': social goals to end chronic poverty -- Creating the enabling environment for social movements -- Public action against discrimination -- Supporting migrants and migration -- Policies for a pro-poor demographic transition -- Post-primary education -- C. Politics -- D. Policy contexts -- E. Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Ending violent conflict and building a social compact -- A. Introduction -- B. Violent conflict and impoverishment -- Injustice and ending war -- C. Redefining the fragile state -- Consequences of state fragility for poverty -- D. Towards a social compact -- How are social compacts built? -- E. Financing the social compact -- What role should donors play? -- F. Conclusion -- PART C -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Eradicating chronic poverty -- A. Eradicating chronic poverty -- B. Five key poverty traps -- C. Policy reponses to chronic poverty traps -- Social protection and social assistance -- Public services for the hard to reach -- The building of individual and collective assets Anti-discrimination and gender empowerment policies -- Strategic urbanisation and migration -- D. Country context -- E. Regaining the promise of poverty reduction -- References -- Contents -- PART D -- Annexes -- Annex A: Background papers for Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09 -- Annex B: Glossary of key terms -- Annex C: Summary of selected social protection programmes in low(er) income countries -- Annex D: Summary information on selected conditional cash transfer programmes in developing countries -- Annex E: Estimates of regional and global numbers -- Annex F: Chronic poverty statistics -- F1. Global indicators of chronic poverty -- F2. Global indicators of chronic poverty (cont.) -- F3. Global indicators on inequality -- F4. Resource inflows -- Annex G: Description of figures and trends in chronic poverty indicators -- Annex H: Methodological note for demographic and health survey data analysis -- Annex I: Trends in US$1/day poverty estimates and trends in the rural share of the poor -- Annex J: CPR2 country classification (1970-2003) -- Annex K: Comparison of country classifications -- Annex L: Life history summaries -- Annexes F-L are available for reference on the CD of the report and on the CPRC website -- www.chronicpoverty.org -- Index -- Boxes -- Box 1: Chronic poverty concepts -- Box 2: Poverty trends and poverty dynamics -- Box 3: Spatial disadvantage and poverty -- Box 4: Can extreme poverty act as a proxy for chronic poverty? -- Box 5: Country classification -- Box 6: Shob shomoy goreb chilam, e rokom cholche -- We've always been poor, we go along this way: The dynamics of chronic poverty in rural Bangladesh -- Box 7: Opitanha -- Everything bad comes together: Social relations and the degrees of poverty in rural Mozambique -- Box 8: Chronic poverty analysis and policy responses in Ethiopia -- Box 9: What is policy and when is it pro-poor? -- Box 10: Growth and the management of natural resources in the Solomon Islands -- Box 11: What should policymakers focus on when thinking about participation of the chronically poor in growth? -- Box 12: Returns to public investment for pro-poor growth -- Box 13: Targeting the chronically food insecure in Ethiopia -- Box 14: Political systems and poverty in PRSs -- Box 15: Ideology, politics and policymaking in Ethiopia -- Box 16: Why budget discipline matters for pro-poor spending -- Box 17: Targeting under the NTPs in Vietnam -- Box 18: A case of dysfunctional decentralisation -- Papua New Guinea -- Box 19: Working definitions -- the 'socials' -- Box 20: Ill health and chronic poverty -- Box 21: Keeping afloat through social networks and social protection -- Box 22: Examples of cash transfer programmes -- Box 23: Indian National Old Age Pension Scheme (NOAPS) -- Box 24: Chile Solidario -- Box 25: Social protection and intergenerational poverty reduction in South Africa -- Box 26: BRAC's Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction -- Targeting the Ultra-Poor (CFPR-TUP) Programme -- The Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09 -- Box 27: Using social grants productively in South Africa -- Box 28: Uganda's political class grapples with social protection -- Box 29: Social insurance for informal wage workers -- Box 30: Poor working conditions -- Box 31: Food prices, growth and chronic poverty -- Box 32: Getting on -- the relational basis of developmental states -- Box 33: State capacities for achieving pro-poor transformative growth -- Box 34: Evidence from Nigeria and Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data -- Box 35: How infrastructure helps reduce poverty in rural Uganda -- Box 36: Climate change and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa -- Box 37: Has urbanisation reduced rural poverty in India? -- Box 38: Worsening human development indicators in urban locations -- Box 39: State-social movement partnerships to build the assets of chronically poor people: Resettlement of railway dwellers in Mumbai -- Box 40: Stories of discrimination -- Box 41: Nijera Kori -- 'Nowadays we do not even fear talking with the magistrate' -- Box 42: Working with scavenger cooperatives -- Box 43: Indigenous activism in Ecuador -- Box 44: Job reservations in India -- Box 45: Integrating anti-discrimination with a long-term strategy for economic and human development: Malaysia's New Economic Policy -- Box 46: Migration and domestic fluidity -- Box 47: Migration in Poverty Reduction Strategies -- Box 48: Regional initiatives to facilitate migration -- Box 49: Access to reproductive health services in rural Uganda -- Box 50: Adult illiteracy and dependency ratios amongst the poorest -- Box 51: Midday Meals programme, Tamil Nadu, India -- Box 52: Alternative Basic Education for Karamoja (ABEK): Uganda -- Box 53: Violence and pro-poor policy in Bihar and West Bengal -- Box 54: Angel and the state in Zimbabwe -- Box 55: Tackling chronic poverty and spatial disparity in Indonesia -- Box 56: The natural resource curse in Papua New Guinea -- Box 57: Innovative finance for poverty reduction -- Figures Figure 1: Cartogram of US$1/day poverty by country -- Figure 2: Five policy responses to the five chronic poverty traps -- Figure 3: Commodity price trends, 1990-2007 -- Figure 4: Poverty in Indonesia, 1976-2006 -- Figure 5: Poverty traps and policy responses -- Tables Table 1: Estimated number of chronically poor people, early 2000s -- Table 2: CPR2 country classification (1970-2003) -- Table 3: Chronically Deprived Countries and Consistent Improvers: Selected aggregate indicators -- Table 4: Approximate proportion of the chronically poor by country classification -- Table 5: Poverty Reduction Strategy review countries -- Table 6: Country trajectories and social protection approaches -- Table 7: National policies for transformative societal change.

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• 234093946
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