What does it take to move out of poverty? How do democracy and national governance systems impact poor people’s experiences of economic freedom and choice? A new global research project is seeking to target a section of the population who can provide useful insights into these questions: those who were once poor and have moved out of and stayed out of poverty. In efforts to devise a methodology for what is envisioned as a 10 to 15-country study on mobility, freedom, power, and aspirations of poor people, experts gathered in July for a workshop titled, Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Growth and Freedom from the Bottom Up. The two and a half day event, held at World Bank headquarters, gathered economists, political scientists, anthropologists, and social scientists to provide feedback and inputs into the new study, which will serve as a successor to Voices of the Poor. - Agenda (27kb PDF)
- Attacking Extreme Poverty: Learning from the Experience of the International Movement ATD Fourth World by Quentin Wodon (442kb PDF)
- Democracy, Public Expenditures and the Poor by Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani (133kb PDF)
- Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor: Who Gains, Who Loses, and Why? -- Accounting for Stability and Change in 35 North Indian Villages by Anirudh Krishna (92kb PDF)
- Happiness and Hardship: Lessons from Panel Data on Mobility and Subjective Well Being in Peru and Russia by Carol Graham (36kb PDF)
- Initial Thoughts on Data Collection Issues for the study Voices of the Once Poor by Christiaan Grootaert (24kb PDF)
- Measures of Democracy, Governance and Rule of Law: An Overview of Cross-National Data Sets by Gerardo L. Munck (40kb PDF)
- Moving Out and Into Poverty -- A Q2 Perspective by Bob Baulch (31kb PDF)
- Moving Out of Poverty: Findings and Methodological Advice for Longitudinal and Mobility Studies by Mary Racelis (20kb PDF)
- Moving Out of Poverty: Growth and Freedom from the Bottom-Up by Lyn Squire (40kb PDF)
- Moving Up Out of Poverty: What Does Democracy Have to Do With It? by Larry Diamond (85kb PDF)
- Poverty, Growth and Democracy by Ashutosh Varshney (54kb PDF)
- Understanding Poverty Dynamics: Innovations in Mixed Method Research to Conduct Longitudinal Research in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Michelle Adato, Francie Lund and Phakama Mhlongo (34kb PDF)
- Urban Longitudinal Research Methodology: Objectives, Contents and Summary of Issues Raised at the joint DPU-ODI-World Bank-DFID workshop, 28-29th May, 2003 by Caroline Moser (44kb PDF)
- Workshop Summary (17kb PDF)
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