Moving Out of Poverty: Learning From Country Teams Workshop

The Moving out of Poverty Workshop: Learning from Country Teams (January 14-19, 2006, St. Petersburg, Russia) organized by the global Moving out of Poverty team brought together for the first time lead country researchers from sixteen of the nineteen study countries. The purpose of the workshop was to:

1. Discuss preliminary findings from each country study;
2. Provide guidance to country teams on data analysis and report preparation; and
3. Continue capacity building for mixed methods research, as well as the  team building, networking and mentoring process for the study

The workshop program featured reporting on initial country findings interwoven with extensive discussions on hypothesis development and analysis of the qualitative and quantitative datasets collected for the study. The country researchers were joined by 11 senior economists, sociologists and political scientists who served as resource people to the teams, providing them feedback on their findings, in-depth guidance on the directions of enquiry that they should probe further, and methods they should use for analysis and report preparation. Patrick Barron (World Bank), Louise Cord (World Bank), Stefan Dercon (University of Oxford), Modou Dia (CEPS/INSTEAD), Naila Kabeer (University of Sussex), Mathias Kuepie (CEPS/INSTEAD), Lant Pritchett (World Bank), Binayak Sen (World Bank),  Charles Tilly (Columbia University), Ashutosh Varshney (University of Michigan) and Michael Woolcock (World Bank) were among the experts who attended.

Workshop Report (380kb PDF)

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