CPAN is honored to announce the awarding of the ESRC/DFID Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research for a project on “Understanding and supporting sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and deprivation”. This a major encouragement to continuing improving our work and reaffirms our commitment to investigate how to fight extreme and chronic poverty worldwide
Read More“Wage labor, agriculture-based economics and pathways out of poverty” – Latest report by the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project
Investing strongly in smallholder agriculture and in policies to improve the quality as well as the number of jobs created is one of the core three policies identified in the 2014 Chronic Poverty Report. Generating decent employment is considered one of the most effective approach to challenge chronic poverty, stop impoverishment and sustain escapes from extreme poverty. This is also the main focus of the recently released report “Wage labor, agriculture-based economics and pathways out of poverty”.
Read MoreCPAN at the ‘Financing the Future: Fresh perspectives on global development' conference
Last 17-18 March, the Development Progress Program at ODI held the ‘Financing the Future: Fresh perspectives on global development' conference at Accra, Ghana. At this event, ODI gathered policy makers, researchers and NGOs to discuss a key question:
What challenges and opportunities to meet the SDGs offers the changing landscape of development finance?
Read MorePresentation of the Chronic Poverty Report 2014 at the DAC Development Debate in Paris - a focus on education, social protection and benefits for the poorest
“If you had to identify the three main policies that you consider key in eradicating extreme poverty, what would they be?” This question was asked to Andrew Shephard, CPAN’s Director, during the presentation of the 2014 Chronic Poverty Report at the DAC Development Debate in Paris last 15 April. To answer Erik Solheim’s question, DAC Chair, and in line with the Chronic Poverty Report 2014, Andrew identified the three main policies that can challenge chronic poverty, stop impoverishment and sustain escapes from extreme poverty.
Read MoreWho will be paying to get to zero extreme poverty? Reflections on the zero draft of the ‘Addis Ababa Accord’
Meeting the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) – i.e. getting to zero extreme poverty everywhere by 2030, is not going to be easy, nor cheap. Business as usual won’t do, and doing things differently should include framing policy making for poverty eradication in terms of poverty dynamics: policies to bring the chronically poor up to the poverty line, policies to support escapes from poverty of those who have reached the poverty line, and policies to prevent impoverishment (Shepherd et al., 2014). While different policy packages will be required in different contexts, three areas of interventions will be essential everywhere and for all poverty dynamics
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