Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09
Subtitle: escaping poverty traps
By: report was written by Tony Addison ... [et al.].
Contributors: Chronic Poverty Research Centre
Publisher: Chronic Poverty Research Centre
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Manchester; U.K.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Poverty; Poor; Services for; Developing Countries; Economics
Other titles: Escaping poverty traps
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: PART A; title: Chronic poverty as a key policy issue; title: Chapter 1: Foundations for understanding and challenging chronic poverty; title: A. Chronic poverty and justice; title: B. The nature and extent of chronic poverty : What is chronic poverty? What causes chronic poverty? Who is chronically poor? Where do they live? How many chronically poor people are there?; title: C. Why address chronic poverty?; title: D. How to address chronic poverty? Policies against chronic poverty; title: preventing entries and promoting exits; title: E. Chronically Deprived Countries and Consistent Improvers; title: F. Conclusion; title: Chapter 2: The policy and political challenge; title: A. Introduction; title: B. Where are the chronically poor in PRSs?; title: Disaggregating the poor in PRSs; title: C. Policy responses/policy choices in PRSs; title: Broad growth policies Sectoral policies Direct policies; title: D. Political systems and ownership; title: E. Institutional mainstreaming and participation of the poor; title: F. Implementation; title: Obstacles to implementation; title: G. Conclusion; title: PART B; title: Four sets of policies for poverty eradication; title: Chapter 3: Addressing insecurity through social protection; title: A. Introduction; title: B. The central role of vulnerability; title: C. The importance of social protection; title: D. Lessons from existing social protection programmes and policies; title: Policies, institutions and tools Identifying and overcoming obstacles to social assistance; title: The politics of initiating social protection; title: Poverty discourse, ideology and selection of beneficiaries; title: Challenging the dependency thesis; title: Social protection to foster the social compact; title: E. Country context; title: Contextualising social protection How to escape the 'social protection trap' in a Chronically Deprived Country?; title: F. Conclusion; title: The Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09; title: Chapter 4: Economic growth and chronic poverty; title: A. Introduction; title: B. Poor people and the growth process; title: C. Disaggregation matters for policy; title: D. Transformative growth; title: Developmental States E. Growth and strategic choices 63 Making agriculture work for the chronically poor: infrastructure, education, information Strategic urbanisation and reducing spatial inequalities; title: F. Social protection as a policy lever for growth in Chronically Deprived Countries; title: G. Conclusion; title: Chapter 5; title: Transformative social change; title: A. Introduction; title: B. Gender equality, social inclusion and increased 'agency': social goals to end chronic poverty; title: Creating the enabling environment for social movements; title: Public action against discrimination; title: Supporting migrants and migration; title: Policies for a pro-poor demographic transition; title: Post-primary education; title: C. Politics; title: D. Policy contexts; title: E. Conclusion; title: Chapter 6: Ending violent conflict and building a social compact; title: A. Introduction; title: B. Violent conflict and impoverishment; title: Injustice and ending war; title: C. Redefining the fragile state; title: Consequences of state fragility for poverty; title: D. Towards a social compact; title: How are social compacts built?; title: E. Financing the social compact; title: What role should donors play?; title: F. Conclusion; title: PART C; title: Conclusion; title: Chapter 7: Eradicating chronic poverty; title: A. Eradicating chronic poverty; title: B. Five key poverty traps; title: C. Policy reponses to chronic poverty traps; title: Social protection and social assistance; title: Public services for the hard to reach; title: The building of individual and collective assets Anti-discrimination and gender empowerment policies; title: Strategic urbanisation and migration; title: D. Country context; title: E. Regaining the promise of poverty reduction; title: References; title: Contents; title: PART D; title: Annexes; title: Annex A: Background papers for Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09; title: Annex B: Glossary of key terms; title: Annex C: Summary of selected social protection programmes in low(er) income countries; title: Annex D: Summary information on selected conditional cash transfer programmes in developing countries; title: Annex E: Estimates of regional and global numbers; title: Annex F: Chronic poverty statistics; title: F1. Global indicators of chronic poverty; title: F2. Global indicators of chronic poverty (cont.); title: F3. Global indicators on inequality; title: F4. Resource inflows; title: Annex G: Description of figures and trends in chronic poverty indicators; title: Annex H: Methodological note for demographic and health survey data analysis; title: Annex I: Trends in US$1/day poverty estimates and trends in the rural share of the poor; title: Annex J: CPR2 country classification (1970-2003); title: Annex K: Comparison of country classifications; title: Annex L: Life history summaries; title: Annexes F-L are available for reference on the CD of the report and on the CPRC website; title: www.chronicpoverty.org; title: Index; title: Boxes; title: Box 1: Chronic poverty concepts; title: Box 2: Poverty trends and poverty dynamics; title: Box 3: Spatial disadvantage and poverty; title: Box 4: Can extreme poverty act as a proxy for chronic poverty?; title: Box 5: Country classification; title: Box 6: Shob shomoy goreb chilam, e rokom cholche; title: We've always been poor, we go along this way: The dynamics of chronic poverty in rural Bangladesh; title: Box 7: Opitanha; title: Everything bad comes together: Social relations and the degrees of poverty in rural Mozambique; title: Box 8: Chronic poverty analysis and policy responses in Ethiopia; title: Box 9: What is policy and when is it pro-poor?; title: Box 10: Growth and the management of natural resources in the Solomon Islands; title: Box 11: What should policymakers focus on when thinking about participation of the chronically poor in growth?; title: Box 12: Returns to public investment for pro-poor growth; title: Box 13: Targeting the chronically food insecure in Ethiopia; title: Box 14: Political systems and poverty in PRSs; title: Box 15: Ideology, politics and policymaking in Ethiopia; title: Box 16: Why budget discipline matters for pro-poor spending; title: Box 17: Targeting under the NTPs in Vietnam; title: Box 18: A case of dysfunctional decentralisation; title: Papua New Guinea; title: Box 19: Working definitions; title: the 'socials'; title: Box 20: Ill health and chronic poverty; title: Box 21: Keeping afloat through social networks and social protection; title: Box 22: Examples of cash transfer programmes; title: Box 23: Indian National Old Age Pension Scheme (NOAPS); title: Box 24: Chile Solidario; title: Box 25: Social protection and intergenerational poverty reduction in South Africa; title: Box 26: BRAC's Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction; title: Targeting the Ultra-Poor (CFPR-TUP) Programme; title: The Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09; title: Box 27: Using social grants productively in South Africa; title: Box 28: Uganda's political class grapples with social protection; title: Box 29: Social insurance for informal wage workers; title: Box 30: Poor working conditions; title: Box 31: Food prices, growth and chronic poverty; title: Box 32: Getting on; title: the relational basis of developmental states; title: Box 33: State capacities for achieving pro-poor transformative growth; title: Box 34: Evidence from Nigeria and Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data; title: Box 35: How infrastructure helps reduce poverty in rural Uganda; title: Box 36: Climate change and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa; title: Box 37: Has urbanisation reduced rural poverty in India?; title: Box 38: Worsening human development indicators in urban locations; title: Box 39: State-social movement partnerships to build the assets of chronically poor people: Resettlement of railway dwellers in Mumbai; title: Box 40: Stories of discrimination; title: Box 41: Nijera Kori; title: 'Nowadays we do not even fear talking with the magistrate'; title: Box 42: Working with scavenger cooperatives; title: Box 43: Indigenous activism in Ecuador; title: Box 44: Job reservations in India; title: Box 45: Integrating anti-discrimination with a long-term strategy for economic and human development: Malaysia's New Economic Policy; title: Box 46: Migration and domestic fluidity; title: Box 47: Migration in Poverty Reduction Strategies; title: Box 48: Regional initiatives to facilitate migration; title: Box 49: Access to reproductive health services in rural Uganda; title: Box 50: Adult illiteracy and dependency ratios amongst the poorest; title: Box 51: Midday Meals programme, Tamil Nadu, India; title: Box 52: Alternative Basic Education for Karamoja (ABEK): Uganda; title: Box 53: Violence and pro-poor policy in Bihar and West Bengal; title: Box 54: Angel and the state in Zimbabwe; title: Box 55: Tackling chronic poverty and spatial disparity in Indonesia; title: Box 56: The natural resource curse in Papua New Guinea; title: Box 57: Innovative finance for poverty reduction; title: Figures Figure 1: Cartogram of US$1/day poverty by country; title: Figure 2: Five policy responses to the five chronic poverty traps; title: Figure 3: Commodity price trends, 1990-2007; title: Figure 4: Poverty in Indonesia, 1976-2006; title: Figure 5: Poverty traps and policy responses; title: Tables Table 1: Estimated number of chronically poor people, early 2000s; title: Table 2: CPR2 country classification (1970-2003); title: Table 3: Chronically Deprived Countries and Consistent Improvers: Selected aggregate indicators; title: Table 4: Approximate proportion of the chronically poor by country classification; title: Table 5: Poverty Reduction Strategy review countries; title: Table 6: Country trajectories and social protection approaches; title: Table 7: National policies for transformative societal change.