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.
Read MoreClimate change and conflict: major threats to the poorest and most vulnerable worldwide
Following the release of a major report on poverty, climate change and natural disasters by ODI and another focusing on war and its impact on Children by War Child, this blog looks at the implications for conflict and natural disasters on poverty reduction progress.
Read MoreChronic poverty and inequality reduction in Brazil: where next?
Brazil has achieved notable progress on income poverty and inequality reduction in recent years. This blog looks at which policies have been successful in producing this progress, and where the focus needs to lie to make sure poverty reduction in Brazil continues.
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