Publications

The GPRG is a collaborative framework and our publications are available from diverse sources. Some of the links included are to content on external sites which are not necessarily under our control.

NEWSLETTER 1

Contents:

  • International Finance Facility
  • Poverty & witchcraft
  • First Harvest of the GPRG
  • Staying Poor: Chronic Poverty & Development Policy International Conference 2003
  • Measuring welfare: approaches from two disciplines
  • Capabilities, reproductive health & well-being
  • Subjective well-being, income & capabilities
  • Joint Review Mission of the District Primary EducationProject, India
  • How to promote fruitful multi-discipline research
  • Books
  • Working papers

NEWSLETTER 2

Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Africa Commission
  • Insuring Ugandan coffee farmers
  • UNIDO training workshop
  • Chronic Poverty Report 2004-2005
  • Elgar Companion to Development Studies
  • Social Protection for Chronic Poverty Conference
  • Growth, Poverty Reduction and Human Development in Africa Conference
  • Socio-economics of tenancy among poor people in India
  • GPRG meeting 29-30 June
  • The ‘Bottom Billion'
  • Working papers

NEWSLETTER 3

Contents:

  • Commission for Africa & the World Bank
  • New GPRG Website
  • Ghana Cocoa Farming
  • Research for Results in Education Conference, April 2005
  • Broadening our Understanding of Poverty & Wellbeing
  • Labour Markets in Africa
  • Manufacturing Firms in Africa & Exporting
  • Trade Liberalisation & Agricultural Performance
  • Networks, Behaviour & Poverty Workshop
  • The Winners & Losers from the RightsBased Approach to Development Conference
  • IDPM NGO Conference
  • Commonwealth Prize 2005
  • Working papers

NEWSLETTER 4

Contents:

  • Can trade help meet the goals of the Africa Commission?
  • South African Economic Policy Under Democracy
  • Political corruption & the HIPC Initiative
  • Cocoa farming in Ghana
  • Reclaiming development? Assessing the contribution of NGOs to development alternatives
  • Agricultural markets in Benin & Malawi
  • Equity, opportunity & identity: GPRG conference 19 March 2006
  • A new look at unemployment in Ghana & Tanzania
  • Poverty, human capital & sustainable livelihoods in Tanzania
  • Redesigning the state: Political corruption in development policy & practice

NEWSLETTER 5

Contents

  • Inequality and development
  • Applying ‘Q Squared' methods to further our understanding of poverty dynamics in Uganda
  • Outcomes of education for pro-poor development 
  • Leverhulme Fellowship for David Hulme
  • Equity, opportunity and identity – GPRG Conference Oxford March 2006
  • Livelihood dynamics in planned and spontaneous resettlement in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe
  • Corruption and migration: A household survey and a field experiment in Cape Verde
  • Policy implications of witchcraft
  • New GPRG management structure
  • Brooks World Poverty Institute
  • Redesigning the state

NEWSLETTER 6

Contents:

  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis of poverty
  • Is vote buying effective?
  • The Elgar Companion to Development Studies
  • Why are they on the street? Street children in Bangladesh
  • Economics of education
  • Rural livelihoods in Ghana
  • Behaviour in agricultural markets
  • Remittances and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe
  • Jobs and poverty reduction
  • Nutrition and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa
  • New GPRG working paper