As part of ODI’s research into poverty trajectories, conducted for USAID through the LEO activity, Lucy Scott, ODI Research Fellow, has been collecting life histories from female and male household heads in Kole District in northern Uganda. Life histories can reveal important information about the resilience (or lack thereof) of individuals and their households.
Read MoreSDG Series #8: Leaving no one behind requires making sure no one falls behind
It is not enough to ask that no one be left behind; we must go a step further and specifically ensure that no one falls behind. This distinction may appear trivial at first glance, but it is an important one. It ensures that households that move above the poverty line do not regress or “backslide” into poverty, but instead sustain their escapes.
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Read MoreSDG Series #7: Leaving no one behind - the contribution of pro-poorest growth
A key finding of CPAN’s 2014-5 Chronic Poverty Report was that pro-poorest economic growth is necessary to achieve the first Sustainable Development Goal and more generally to improve all poverty dynamics. An investigation of what policy interventions are required to achieve pro-poorest growth, whether these differ from previous policy prescriptions and whether they differ for countries at different stages of transformation and engaged in different patterns of economic growth is needed. For this reason CPAN has embarked in a research project seeking to answer these questions.
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Read MoreSDG Series #6: Contributing to SDGs implementation through CPAN project "Evaluating anti-discrimination measures"
In the quest to reach zero poverty it will be necessary to reduce the social, economic and institutional discrimination that some groups face in their everyday lives. In CPAN we are working on a rigorous review of anti-discrimination and affirmative action policies to try and map out what evidence exists on how to reduce discrimination.
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Read MoreSDG Series #5: Intersecting inequalities Disability, poverty dynamics, and the SDGs
Disability may cause poverty, and poverty may cause disability. This two-way street has become a landmark drive-through visited time and again in disability and poverty discourses. But what about the intersections – women with disabilities who are persistently poor?
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