In order to eliminate extreme poverty, we need to take immediate actions to tackle chronic poverty. What are the potential challenges? How can they be overcome?
Ending Chronic Poverty by 2030: What is Required for Implementation?
World
Chronic Poverty Report 2014 at DAC – Education, Social Protection and Benefits for the Poorest
If you had to identify the three main policies that you consider key in eradicating extreme poverty, what would they be?
Tackling climate change: the contested politics of forest carbon projects in Africa
Tackling climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our age. And this year is a crucial moment with the Conference of the Parties meeting in Parisin December 2015 hopefully to forge a new climate agreement.
Why Economists Fail in Africa
A great new book is just out by Morten Jerven called Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong.
Why does Japan not Tweet? Compliance and Public Relations
In development communities, it is often said, ‘we don’t know what Japan does’. People in the world think Japan is invisible.
Can Graduation Programmes End Child Poverty?
Can social protection lift up households out of poverty sustainably? The keyword of this sentence is ‘sustainably’.
Japan Starts Emergency Assistance to Nepal over the Great Earthquake
The great earthquake hit the Nepali capital Katmandu at 11:56, April 25 in local time. Within only half day, Japanese organisations have already started emergency assistance.
Facebook Starts Safety Check for Nepal Earthquake
Facebook has just launched a safety check service for people affected by the great earthquake in Nepal.
Cash Transfers Boost the Local Economy in Cambodia
What components or types of social protection programmes most effectively reduce poverty and vulnerability? What about impacts on a local economy?
Farming May be Cool, But Who Will Farm in Rwanda?
Last January I attended the 4th annual research conference of the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR) in Kigali, Rwanda.
