Global Poverty Research Group
Research
The Programme of the Research Group is organised around five themes. Browse the projects by theme below.
Poverty, intra-household allocation and well-being
- Policies towards poverty in Ghana and Tanzania in the 1990s
- Policies towards poverty in Ethiopia
- Managing risk and the implications for poverty
Qualitative and quantitative approaches to the measurement of welfare:
- Genuine Q2 - Combining quantitative and qualitative research to understand poverty dynamics in Uganda
- Modelling and measuring subjective well-being
- Qualitative measurement in poverty analysis
Governance, social norms and social outcomes
Human Capital, institutions and well-being
- Human Capital Acquisition and School Quality in South Africa
- The Value of Education in Low Skill Economies - Manufacturing in Kenya and Tanzania
Policy issues in Indian education
- Student Achievement in Government and Private Schools
- Education and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India
- Gender-Bias in the Intra-Household Allocation of Educational Expenditure
- Schooling Participation in Rural India
- Teacher Unions, Politics and education in India
Income opportunities, inequality and the poor
Unemployment, race, wages and poverty in South Africa
- Unemployment, race and poverty in South Africa
- The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa: Voluntary or Involuntary
- The difficulty of measuring unemployment
- Unemployment and wages in South Africa
Vulnerability
Social capital, the provision of public services, and social safety nets
Social capital and its uses
- Information, Health-Related Wellbeing and Social Networks of the Poor in Developing Countries
- Trade and social capital
Public services