Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
A devastating drought or other shock can force small-scale farmers in developing economies to sell off assets or cut meals and other consumption to cope. Even the risk of a shock can stifle their future by pushing...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
While poverty overall has declined in the last few decades, extreme poverty has become more concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa. During this time, research has built a wealth of new knowledge about the conditions that...
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN)
, USAID Center for Resilience
The South Asian, agriculture-based nation of Nepal experienced considerable poverty reduction over the last two decades, from 63.8 percent in 1995 to 30.8 percent in 2010. An increase in migration and...
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN)
, USAID Center for Resilience
The USAID Center for Resilience commissioned the Overseas Development Institute, in conjunction with the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN), to conduct research into resilience and poverty escapes in select...
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN)
, USAID Center for Resilience
Transitory poverty escapes and impoverishment are a problem in Tanzania despite a notable fall in poverty since 2000. Indeed, the proportion of households experiencing sustained escapes only just exceeds the...
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN)
, USAID Center for Resilience
The Philippines has experienced a significant reduction of poverty in the past 25 years. Poverty dropped from 27 percent in 1991 to eight percent in 2015 according to the international $1.90 a day...
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN)
, USAID Center for Resilience
Health intersects with resilience and sustained poverty escapes in at least three ways. Poor health reduces well-being and can be a shock or stressor at the individual, household, community or systems level. It...
Overseas Development Institute
, Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN)
, USAID Center for Resilience
The USAID Center for Resilience commissioned the Overseas Development Institute, in conjunction with the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN), to conduct research on resilience and poverty escapes...
Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN)
, USAID Center for Resilience
Since 2000 Malawi has achieved four of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) including those on reducing child mortality and combating diseases.
Recent research commissioned by the USAID Center for Resilience and conducted by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) examined why some households escape and remain out of poverty (sustainable poverty escape),...
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