Staying poor: chronic poverty and development policy

April 7th - 9th, 2003
University of Manchester, UK

Institute for Development and Policy Management

 Description

The meeting will bring high level representatives of government such as Gerald Ssendaula, Minister of Finance in Uganda and Pronab Sen, head of India's powerful Planning Commission, together with NGOs and researchers working with chronically poor people at grass roots level.

Speakers and schedule

• Raghav Gaiha, University of Delhi
• Selim Jahan, UNDP
• Naila Kabeer, University of Sussex
• Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University
• Julian May, University of Natal
• Janice E. Perlman, Mega-Cities, Trinity College, USA
• Martin Ravallion, World Bank
• Pronab Sen, Planning Commission, Government of India
• Gerald Ssendaula, Minister of Finance, Planning & Economic Development, Government of Uganda

Event website

Meeting reports

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

Papers

• Globalization, the International Poverty Trap and Chronic Poverty in the Least Developed Countries

• The Political Economy of Disability and Development, with special reference to India

• Past, present and future: child labour and the inter-generational transmission of poverty

• Talking to the Finance Minister about Poverty: The New Political Economy of Information

• Marginality: From Myth to Reality in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2002

• Targeted Transfers in Poor Countries: Revisiting the Trade-Offs and Policy Options

Resources and links

• Please click to view the Press Release