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