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Working Papers

STAYING POOR: CHRONIC POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY
IDPM, University of Manchester, 7 to
9 April 2003
Conference Papers 

In April 2003, PRCPB’s parent organization, the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, hosted a three day conference Staying poor: Chronic Poverty and Development Policy at the University of Manchester, UK.  

Several papers directly relating to chronic poverty in Bangladesh were presented. Direct links can be found below. Many other papers will be of interest and can be found by clicking here.

·         Harry Blair
Civil Society and Pro-poor Initiatives at the Local Level in Bangladesh: Finding a Workable Strategy

 ·        Dipankar Datta
Reaching the Extreme Poor: Learning from Concern’s Community Development Programmes in Bangladesh

 ·       Munshi Israil Hossain, Iqbal Alam Khan and Janet Seeley
Surviving on their Feet: Charting the Mobile Livelihoods of the Poor in Rural Bangladesh

 ·       Sophie Jenks
In Combating Social Exclusion how are Interventions on the ‘Excluded’ Related to Interventions on the ‘Excluding Society’?: A Comparative Analysis of Leprosy Rehabilitation and Prevention in Bangladesh

 ·        Naila Kabeer 
Past, present and future: child labour and the inter-generational transmission of poverty (
Dhaka and Kolkata)

·         Uma Kothari and David Hulme
Narratives, Stories and Tales: Understanding Poverty Dynamics through Life Histories (rural
Bangladesh)

 ·       David Lewis, Kelly Hallman and Suraiya Begum
Improved Vegetables, Fishpond Technologies and Livelihoods in
Bangladesh

·         Jane Pryer, Stephen Rogers and Ataur Rahman
Work, Disabling Illness and Coping Strategies in Dhaka Slums, Bangladesh

·         Salim Ahmed Purvez, Iqbal Alam Khan, S.M. Zubair Ali Khan and Janet Seeley
Describing Their Poverty: What The Poorest Say about Being Poor in Rural Bangladesh

·         Binayak Sen
Monetary and Non-monetary Aspects of Chronic Poverty: The
Bangladesh Evidence  

·         Binayak Sen and Zulfiqar Ali
Spatial Inequality in Human Development in Bangladesh

·         Emmanuel Skoufias and Agnes R. Quisumbing
Consumption Insurance and Vulnerability to Poverty: A Synthesis of the Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico and Russia

 

 

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