The 2015 edition of the report “Combining Finance and Policies to implement a transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda” was led by Dirk Willem te Welde at ODI and involved other European research institutes. CPAN (Andrew Shepherd and Chiara Mariotti) contributed to Chapter 6 “The link between finance and policies for selected enablers”.
Read MoreCPAN was awarded a grant in the 2013-14 ESRC/DFID Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research
CPAN is honored to announce the awarding of the ESRC/DFID Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research for a project on “Understanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation”. This a major encouragement to continuing improving our work and reaffirms our commitment to investigate how to fight extreme and chronic poverty worldwide
Read More“Wage labor, agriculture-based economics and pathways out of poverty” – Latest report by the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project
Investing strongly in smallholder agriculture and in policies to improve the quality as well as the number of jobs created is one of the core three policies identified in the 2014 Chronic Poverty Report. Generating decent employment is considered one of the most effective approach to challenge chronic poverty, stop impoverishment and sustain escapes from extreme poverty. This is also the main focus of the recently released report “Wage labor, agriculture-based economics and pathways out of poverty”.
Read MoreCPAN at the ‘Financing the Future: Fresh perspectives on global development' conference
Last 17-18 March, the Development Progress Program at ODI held the ‘Financing the Future: Fresh perspectives on global development' conference at Accra, Ghana. At this event, ODI gathered policy makers, researchers and NGOs to discuss a key question:
What challenges and opportunities to meet the SDGs offers the changing landscape of development finance?
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