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IDS aims to develop research and analysis for an improved understanding of the geography and causes of poverty and vulnerability, and produce effective remedies towards poverty reduction.

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Just under one billion people in the world today live in extreme poverty. There are many dimensions to their deprivation, low and irregular incomes, lack of safe drinking water, poor housing, limited access to health and education, and social exclusion and discrimination. Their poverty makes them extremely vulnerable to life cycle, natural, or economic hazards. In many cases, extreme poverty persists over time.

Using a definition of chronic poverty as those people who remain under the poverty line for at least five years, approximately 400 million people in the world are chronically poor. The persistence of poverty over time eats into their assets and networks, undermining their resilience and voice. For a number of reasons, those affected by chronic and extreme poverty are often left out in policy initiatives. They are often harder to reach, require stronger and longer term support, and have limited political influence.

IDS work on poverty is led by the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team. The team aims to shift thinking, policy and practice towards dynamic and multi-dimensional perspectives on vulnerability and poverty.

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AFSPAN (Aquaculture for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Nutrition)

Aquaculture is widely considered as important for enhancing food security, alleviating poverty and improving nutrition. However, little information is available concerning the direct and indirect impacts of aquaculture on food security and poverty alleviation in most developing countries and LIFDCs. More details

Against the Odds

Agency and Governance in Contexts of Civil Conflict

analysing how the relationship between populations living in contexts of violence and armed non-state actors controlling or contesting those areas results in forms of local governance and order, and how this affects people's livelihoods. More details

Aid for Nutrition - How Much is Being Invested?

This project, funded by Action Against Hunger (AAH) includes a literature review of effectiveness of current nutrition spending, with a focus on which activities (and composition of activities) are required to meet 2015 targets and how these are currently defined by different donors. More details

ALINe

There is a new and widespread commitment within the development community to invest in agriculture as a way of reducing poverty and hunger. Three quarters of the one billion people surviving on less than $1 a day live and work in rural areas, and most rely on agriculture for their food and income. Investing in agriculture is key to lifting the world's poor out of hunger and poverty. More details

Burundi Graduation Programme Evaluation

In December 2012, Concern Burundi launched its 'Graduation Model Programme' in two provinces in Burundi to work with extremely poor and marginalised communities. More details

Challenging the Investment Climate Paradigm: Governance and Growth in Vietnam

This project examines a key assumption which underlies one of the main approaches to poverty reduction currently advocated and practised by many international development agencies. More details

Child Vulnerability Assessment, UNICEF Myanmar

IDS has been commissioned to analyse the most recent Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) data and write a report on child vulnerability, which can be utilized for evidence based programming and advocacy to improve children's status in Myanmar. More details

China as the new 'shaper' of global development

The pace and significance of China's rise has implications for both traditional and emerging powers, as well as for developing countries. This plays a role for energy and climate change and for many other development issues. Rising Powers Network is a new network that will place China as the new 'shaper' of global development under the ESRC's Rising Power's Programme. More details

Civil Society Governance Fund Malawi
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Real Time Monitoring for the Most Vulnerable

 IDS Bulletin 44.2 (2013)
Greeley, M., Lucas, H. and Chai, J.

Household Trajectories in Rural Ethiopia: What Can a Mixed Method Approach Tell Us About the Impact of Poverty on Children?

Social Indicators Research (2013)
Camfield, C. and Roelen, K.

Editorial: Poverty, Vulnerability and Resilience in a Post-2015 World

 Social Indicators Research (2013)
Camfield, L., Crabtree, A., and Roelen, K.

Making the Most of Resilience

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 32 (2013)
Béné, C., Newsham, A., and Davies, M.

Equal Opportunities for All? – A Critical Analysis of Mexico’s Oportunidades

 IDS Working Paper 413 (2012)
Ulrichs, M. and Roelen, K.

Global Implications of Somalia 2011 for Famine Prevention, Mitigation and Response

 Global Food Security Special Issue on the Somalia Famine of 2011-2012 (2012)
Haan, N., Devereux, S. and Maxwell, D.

The Interplay of Well-being and Resilience in Applying a Social-Ecological Perspective

 Ecology and Society 4.17 (2012)
Armitage, D., Béné, C., Charles, A. T., Johnson, D. and Allison, E. H.

The Evolving Composition of Poverty in Middle-Income Countries: The Case of Indonesia, 1991–2007

 IDS Working Paper 409 (2012)
Sumner, A.

A Mixed-Method Taxonomy of Child Poverty - the Case of Ethiopia

 In 'A Mixed-method Taxonomy of Child Poverty: A Case Study from Rural Ethiopia' (2012)
Roelen, K. and Camfield, L.

From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States can Change the World

 (2012)
Green, D.

Resilience: New Utopia or New Tyranny?

 IDS Working Paper 405 (2012)
Béné, C., Godfrey Wood, R., Newsham, A. and Davies, M.

The Agency and Governance of Urban Battlefields: How Riots Alter Our Understanding of Adequate Urban Living

 Households in Conflict Network 122 (2012)
Gupte, J.

Child Well-Being in Kazakhstan

 Unicef (2012)
Roelen, K. and Gassmann, F.

From Deprivation to Distribution: Is Global Poverty Becoming A Matter of National Inequality?

 IDS Working Paper 394 (2012)
Sumner, A.

Where Do The World’s Poor Live? A New Update

 IDS Working Paper 393 (2012)
Sumner, A.

What Do National Poverty Lines Tell Us About Global Poverty?

 IDS Working Paper 392 (2012)
Gentilini, U. and Sumner, A.

Lessons Learned and Ways Forward - Pathways to Protection – Referral Mechanisms and Case Management for Vulnerable Children in Eastern and Southern Africa

 (2012)
Roelen, K., Long, S. and Edström, J.

Cohort Profile: Young Lives a Cohort Study on Childhood Poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam

 International Journal of Epidemiology 5.5 (2012)
Barnett, I., Ariana, P., Petrou, S., Penny, ME., Boyden, J., Dorman, P. and Plugge, E.

Using Human Security Principles to Develop a Post-2015 Framework

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 24 (2012)
Corbett, H.

War and Poverty

 IDS Working Paper 391 (2012)
Justino, P.
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