Evaluation and Assessment of Poverty and Conflict Interventions (EAPC)

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

[from the MercyCorps website] "A significant body of knowledge exists on the relationship between poverty and conflict. Research has shown that low per capita income and slow economic growth drastically increase the chances that a country will experience violence. Driven in part by these findings, donors and their partners are implementing ...

IMPACT AND AID EFFECTIVENESS: Mapping the Issues and their Consequences

Monday, April 4th, 2011

[from the IDS Virtual Bulletin, March 2011] Introduction In this virtual Bulletin we bring together ten articles dating from across three decades. They all address Impact. From the outset, we ...

Does Research Reduce Poverty? Assessing the welfare impact of policy-orientated research in agriculture

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

ALINe publication: Sumner, A., Masset, E. and Mulmi, R. (2010) IDS Practice Paper, under review. Available online EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the current context of the global financial crisis and its aftermath, development resources are likely to be getting scarcer. Resources for development research are too. The set of circumstances generating the ...

Analyzing the Effects of Policy Reforms on the Poor: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of World Bank Support to Poverty and Social Impact Analyses

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

World Bank, 2010 "The World Bank introduced the Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) approach in fiscal 2002 to help governments and the Bank anticipate and address the possible consequences of proposed policy reforms, especially on the poor and vulnerable, and ...

The material and political bases of lived poverty in Africa: insights from the Afrobarometer

Friday, June 13th, 2008

The lived poverty index: strongly related to measurement of political freedoms Authors: M. Bratton (ed) Publisher: Afrobarometer, 2008 Full text of document (Via Eldis Development Reporter) Abstract: The Afrobarometer has developed an experiential measure of lived poverty called the Lived Poverty Index (LPI). It measures how frequently people go without basic necessities during the ...

Poverty and environment indicators

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Produced by: Capability and Sustainability Centre, University of Cambridge (2008) The aim of this report is to explain technical aspects in using and developing Poverty & Environment indicators (P&E) by providing a toolbox that will enable the readers to use indicators to mainstream environment into poverty reduction strategies. The document targets ...

Basic Necessities Survey versus Schreiner’s Simple Poverty Scorecard

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

This page compares two simple methods of measuring poverty: The Basic Necessites Survey (BNS) Mark Schreiner's Simple Poverty Scorecard (SPS) The comparison was prompted by an email to the MandE NEWS email list by Atta Ullah in May 2008 asking for a comparison.

Improving poverty measurement in Sri Lanka

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

(From ELDIS Poverty Reporter) Authors: Gunewardena,D. Produced by: Centre for Poverty Analysis, Sri Lanka (2005) Recently, conceptual advances in poverty measurement have been made: acceptance of the multidimensionality of poverty parallel use of monetary, capability, social exclusion and participatory approaches better measurement of the dynamics of poverty and vulnerability a rudimentary but growing agenda for the measurement ...

Experiences of Uganda’s PPA in implementing and monitoring poverty reduction

Saturday, January 1st, 2005

[from Eldis Poverty Reporter] Authors: Ssewakiryange,R. Produced by: International Institute for Environment and Development (2005) Uganda's Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) incorporates poor people's voices and perspectives. This paper focuses on the lessons learnt in the implementation of the PEAP by using examples from the Ugandan participatory poverty assessment process. Key recommendations based on ...