This was the question asked by a three-year research project, led by ODI, in collaboration with partners in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Nepal. This blog discusses the questions and ideas that came out of a recent workshop on this project.
Read MoreStopping (re)-impoverishment is essential to ‘Get to Zero’
CPAN’s second Challenge Paper, How Resilient are Escapes from Poverty? investigates what happens to households after escaping poverty.
Read MorePragmatic, innovative and conservative: a review of the 2014 World Development Report Risk and Opportunities
This blog looks at the recent World Development Report, which makes an innovative strong link between development and risk management. This echoes one of CPAN’s forthcoming Third Chronic Poverty Report’s key themes: that the other side of the coin of the link between risk and development is the link between risk and impoverishment.
Read MoreMicrofinance, poverty and disability
This blog focuses on the 'Smart Campaign'; a pilot project run by Fundación Paraguaya, a microfinance institution (MFI), in conjunction with the Washington DC based Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI). The Campaign aims to create a more client-focused industry based on standards, including things like non-discriminatory practice which addresses disability inclusion into credit schemes and training of credit managers and staff around issues of disability.
What do we need to do in 2014 to ensure a post-2015 framework which contributes strongly to ending poverty?
This blog follows the launch of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee's 2013 Development Co-operation Report on Ending Poverty. It offers some thoughts on how an agenda for 2014 could address chronic poverty, prevent impoverishment and enable sustained escapes from poverty.
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