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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

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Manchester School of Environment and Development

Meeting reports

For more information on this event, please contact the Institute for Development Policy and Management

Papers

Full list of abstracts and papers available here

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