Social protection for chronic poverty
23rd - 24th February, 2005
IDPM, University of Manchester, UK
From the event series Risk, Needs, and Rights Protecting What? How?
Institute for Development Policy and Management
Description
The Conference aims to contribute to an improved understanding of the issues surrounding social protection, including its conceptual grounding, instruments, and conditions.
About 100 participants discussed 26 papers focussing on three main questions:
- What are the roles of risks, rights, and needs in understanding chronic poverty and its remedies?
- What works, and does not work, in reducing chronic poverty in developed and developing countries?
- What are the political economy conditions required for sustainable anti-chronic poverty interventions?
Speakers and schedule
Event website
Manchester School of Environment and Development
Meeting reports
For more information on this event, please contact the Institute for Development Policy and Management
Papers
- Can social protection tackle poverty?
- Health and Social Protection: Meeting the needs of the very poor
- How to improve access to social protection for the poor
- Capturing social protection for the poor
- The implications of HIV/AIDS for social protection
- Forging partnership for social protection in South- and East-Asia
- Social protection and chronic poverty: Portugal and the Southern European Welfare Regime
Full list of abstracts and papers available here