This blog sheds light on the impact of upward and downward income mobility on the structural poverty dynamics in South Africa.
Read MoreEconomic Growth, the poorest and the 4th Chronic Poverty Report - a discussion
Interviews at the margin of the technical workshop for the 4th Chronic Poverty Report on Growth, 19th June 2017, Overseas Development Institute, London, UK
Photocredit: CPAN.
Read MoreImmiserizing growth: Growth varies across country contexts, immiserization prevails
Some people can get poorer amid growth, even rapid growth, others can be impoverished (become poor) or be downwardly mobile, or have other dramatically negative experiences – malnutrition, unhappiness, or a loss of community. Andrew Shepherd participated in the workshop 'Immiserizing growth' organised by the University of Toronto to discuss the topic.
Picture Credits: Panos Pictures
Read MoreEvent: Eradicating poverty: using poverty dynamics to enhance development efforts
The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network is pleased to announce the event ‘Eradicating poverty: using poverty dynamics to enhance development efforts’ that will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, on the 3 and 4 May 2017. In the last years CPAN has produced an extensive set of publications on anti-discrimination and disability, social protection, growth and poverty dynamics. The event aims to present this comprehensive set of publications to policy makers in this dissemination workshop that will also be a preparatory exercise for the 4th Chronic Poverty Report.
Photo Credit: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam - At the Mentao Nord camp in Burkina Faso. Photo available here.
Read MoreCPAN-ADB Conference on Pro-poorest Growth and the SDGs: emerging issues
With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015, the international community has committed to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 and to Leave No One Behind in this process. Economic growth will be critical to achieve these commitments, but not any type of growth will do the job.
Photo Credit: CPAN
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