worldpoverty@manchester

The global food crisis and welfare
(Ralitza Dimova and Patrick Monnet Gbakou) PDF (206 KB)

Research from Cote d'Ivoire raises important questions for policy responses to the global food crisis. Evidence suggests tropical export crop production has a key role to play in improving welfare.

Tenure and climate adaptability
(Manoj Roy) PDF (192 KB)

Rural-urban migration in Bangladesh means the urban poor are likely to outnumber the rural poor by 2040. Security of tenure is key for people in poor urban settlements, enabling them to adapt and reduce their vulnerability to climate change.

Reducing malnutrition in rural India
(Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha, Samuel Annim and Veena S. Kulkarni) PDF (222 KB)

In rural India, malnutrition is still widespread, despite recent economic growth. Diversifying employment opportunities, empowering women and improving health insurance and infrastructure would help to raise nutritional status.

Does microfinance reach the poorest? Findings from rural Pakistan
(Asad K. Ghalib) PDF (188 KB)

Access to financial services enables poor people to improve their lives. This study assesses the outreach of microfinance programmes among the poorest in the rural areas of Punjab Province, Pakistan.

NGOs and civil society in development and poverty reduction (Nicola Banks with David Hulme) PDF (460 KB)

Research highlights a growing distance between NGOs and low-income communities. To fulfil their role as civil society actors, NGOs need to return communities and participatory approaches to the heart of their strategies and activities.

Violence, crime and poverty in Patna, Bihar (Dennis Rodgers and Shivani Satija) PDF (725 KB)

Patna, formerly known as India's crime capital, is perceived as having undergone a reduction in violent crime since 2005. Research indicates that the violence has not so much been reduced as contained in the city's slums.

Demographic landscape in Asia: youth bulge and ageing (Moneer Alam and Armando Barrientos) PDF (342 KB)

Demographic changes in South Asia are producing gains and challenges. A youth bulge requires policies to create employment, while a growing older population raises issues of income security and health provision.

Ageing, wellbeing and poverty in the South (Armando Barrientos) PDF (604 KB)

Rapidly ageing populations in developing countries pose urgent challenges. Research on ageing and deprivation in Brazil and South Africa offers insights into policies to support older people's wellbeing and enhance their contribution to development.

Equity and growth in India (Natalie C. F. Gupta) PDF (201 KB)

Despite India’s strong economic performance, research shows that benefits of growth do not automatically ‘trickle’ down to workers’ wages. There is a need for policy to address income distribution and improve workers’ bargaining power.

Did self-help save Egypt? (Solava Ibrahim) PDF (202 KB)

Research in Egypt looks at how people in poor communities are initiating and managing their own grassroots projects to improve wellbeing. External actors can help to create a suitable environment for poor people to empower themselves.

The inaugural BWPI Global Poverty Summit (James Scott and Rorden Wilkinson) PDF (461 KB)

At the inaugural BWPI Global Poverty Summit in Johannesburg, 16-19 January 2011, expert task forces reviewed progress on the Millennium Development Goals and the Doha Development Agenda. They reached a consensus on the way forward, presented in two Johannesburg Statements.

Working out of poverty in urban Bangladesh (Nicola Banks) PDF (597 KB)

Research among poor urban households in Dhaka examines their strategies to escape poverty. Although the way households make use of productive resources is important, it is their social connections that determine access to employment.

The global crisis, social protection and jobs (Joseph Stiglitz) PDF (445 KB)

The people in the global economy have the same skills as before the crisis, and the machines and real resources are the same as before the crisis. The problem is that there is an organisational failure, a coordination failure, and a macroeconomic failure.