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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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