Rural households adopt a broad range of strategies to cope with adverse weather shocks.
Previous studies have examined the effectiveness of individual co** strategies in …

Although the multidimensional nature of poverty is widely recognized, the extent to which
monetary measures can serve as a proxy for non‐monetary measures remains unresolved …

A decade ago, around the time the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) was
conceived, I co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies with John …

Despite the impressive economic progress in the develo** world seen in the last three
decades, a vast majority of people in these countries lives in or close to poverty, and is …

An expanding evidence base suggests that children experiencing monetary and
multidimensional poverty are not the same. This article breaks new ground by providing a …

Previous studies of poverty in develo** countries have to a great extent focussed on the
characteristics of the household head and used these as proxies for the underlying ability of …

Purpose More than half of the Mexican population lives in poverty. While there are many
studies about poverty in Mexico, there are very few about the dynamics of poverty. The …

What factors contribute to sustainable poverty reduction? This question interests researchers
and policymakers alike, particularly in Bangladesh, which has posted a marked reduction in …

Rural households in develo** countries face shocks that undermine their wellbeing. The
paper analyses to what extent household exposure to shocks influences food access in rural …

Studying chronic poverty using retrospective qualitative data (life histories) in conjunction
with longitudinal panel data is now widely recognised to provide deeper and more reliable …