This report introduces the concept of ‘Growth from below’ and analyses policies and programmatic approaches that directly help people out of poverty through the informal economy, women’s economic empowerment and the inclusion of most marginalised groups, agriculture, the rural non-farm economy and migration.
Read MorePathways to sustained poverty reduction: balancing growth from above and below
This briefing note summarises the findings of the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network's (CPAN) forthcoming Chronic Poverty Report on Growth and introduced the concept of Growth from Below (GfB)
Read MoreEconomic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Rwanda
The contribution of this paper is to establish knowledge of how and whether the observed economic growth in the past has been pro-poor and identify what are the enablers and constraints of poverty reduction in Rwanda.
Read MoreEconomic Growth and Dynamics of Rural Poverty: The Case of Pakistan (2000-2010)
The specific focus of this report is to analyse the movements of poverty and its linkages with economic growth for 2001-2010 period.
Read MorePro-poorest growth and poverty dynamics: Household Poverty Dynamics in Malawi (2010-13)
This study seeks to provide a detailed understanding of poverty dynamics in Malawi. This has not been done previously due to lack of nationally representative panel data.
Read MorePro-poorest growth and poverty dynamics: An assessment of Indian states
This paper presents initial findings on the relationships between growth, growth incidence across the income distribution and those poverty dynamics in India, a set of relationships which has never previously been investigated.
Read MorePractical measures to enable the economic empowerment of chronically poor women
This paper focuses on the economic empowerment of poor and very poor women and girls. Advice on the practical interventions to enable WEE is rarely disaggregated by the intersecting inequalities that magnify poverty and inequality. As such, it fails to address the significant barriers to WEE for chronically poor women. This paper seeks to fill this gap in the literature.
Read More(In)tangible assets: The road to economically empowering poor women in Bangladesh and Nigeria
This report assesses drivers of the economic empowerment of chronically poor women and girls in rural Bangladesh and rural Nigeria. The focus is on drivers related to assets, both intangibly in terms of education, and tangibly in terms of ownership of consumption and productive assets including land.
Read MoreWhat works for the poorest, and especially for the poorest women and girls? An assessment of (selected) donor contributions
Thispaper provides the latest analysis of development policies and programmes that work best for the poorest people. It has a particular focus on the poorest women and girls and it also focuses on the work carried out by a number of leading donors, assessing the extent to which they attempt to reach the poorest, and among them the poorest women and girls.
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