Resources on poverty issues
General
Poverty reduction for profit? A critical examination of business opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid
Jean-Louis Warnholz examines C.K Prahalad‘s idea that selling to four billion poor people at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BoP) generates both profits for big business and eliminates poverty. A welcome, innovative and influential perspective, but an opportunity missed.
Working Paper Number 160, October 2007, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.
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The world’s most deprived: characteristics and causes of extreme poverty and hunger
Akhter U. Ahmed, Ruth Vargas Hill, Lisa C. Smith, Doris M. Wiesmann, and Tim Frankenberger: International Food Policy Research Institute
Washington, DC, October 2007
Subjective assessments, participatory methods and poverty dynamics: The Stages-of-Progress method
Anirudh Krishna: Chronic Poverty Research Centre, Working Paper 93 (2007)
Interrelationship between growth, inequality, and poverty: the Asian experience
Hyun H. Son: Asian Development Bank.
Rural livelihoods, poverty reduction and food security in Southern Africa: is CBNRM the answer?
USAID Report: It focuses on three economic aspects of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approaches in Southern Africa amd its role in poverty reduction.
Poverty in Focus: Does Aid Work? – for the MDGs
International Poverty Centre‘s series Poverty in Focus
Where needs meet rights. Economic, social and cultural rights in a new perspective
Bas de Gaay Fortman: World Council of Churches Publications, Risk Book Series No. 88 (1999)
Four chapters of this book can be downloaded seperately:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Poverty as a human rights deficit: some implications for the international financial institutions
Bas de Gaay Fortman: Tilburg University (2001)
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Bella Americana: some consequences for the United Nations 10th International Castiglioncello Conference
Bas de Gaay Fortman: Unilateral actions and military interventions- The future of non-profileration (Italy 2003)
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Fact sheet Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
International Monetary Fund (2005)
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Can Anyone Hear Us? Voices from 47 Countries
D. Narayan and others: World Bank Poverty Group (1999)
This study is part of a global research effort entitled 'Consultations with the Poor', designed to inform the World Development Report 2000/1 on Poverty and Development. It is the first large scale comparative research effort using participatory methods to focus on the voices of the poor.
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Politics and the PRSP Approach: Synthesis Paper
L. Piron and A. Evans: ODI Working Paper 237 (2004)
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Human rights and extreme poverty: report of the United Nations independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty
A. Sengupta: Commissino on Human Rights, 61st Session (2005)
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Websites
Livelihoods Connect
This resource website is member of the knowledge group of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and has a range of documents and course lists on poverty issues and poverty eradication strategies.
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Dev-Zone
The Dev-Zone website contains an online knowledge centre on economic disparity and poverty issues.
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Reality of Aid
The Reality of Aid project is a major north/south international non-governmental initiative focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime. Its website contains reports, news and documents.
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