This section of PovertyFrontiers features publications related to poverty reduction.

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PASSN Pro-Poor CD Documents Available Online

USAID's Poverty Analysis and Social Safety Net (PASSN) Team has made available online the contents of its CD titled "Pro-Poor Growth: A Guide to Policies and Programs."  The CD is a compilation of the work of prominent researchers who examine the complex relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction, and features their findings, recommendations, and conclusions.  The CD is both a general reference and a functional tool to support poverty reduction efforts. It contains a guide to assist designers of pro-poor growth strategies in developing countries. It also contains case studies highlighting how and why selected coun-tries succeeded or failed in improving the plight of the poor.

To access the contents of the CD, click here.

The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Poverty: Conference Proceedings Available

This publication summarizes the proceedings of a conference, “The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Poverty,” hosted by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars with support from the USAID Poverty Assessment and Social Safety Nets team and the 3M Company on April 15, 2005. The daylong conference brought together national and international stakeholders, including economists, policy analysts, policymakers, and business leaders from different parts of the developing world to examine how trade liberalization affects poverty. Sessions were dedicated to understanding the linkages among trade, growth, and poverty; how the poor respond to trade-related opportunities and challenges; the types of institutions and complementary policies needed to ensure that trade liberalization benefits the poor; and the challenges faced by policymakers in the context of the Doha round of WTO negotiations.

To access the conference proceedings, please click here . 

New USAID Toolkit

Livelihoods and Conflict: A Toolkit for Programming

The Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation in DCHA is launching its new Livelihoods & Conflict Toolkit, the fourth in the toolkit series developed by CMM to explore how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict, instability, and extremism. The new toolkit was developed with extensive participation from the Poverty Analysis and Social Safety Net team.

The toolkit provides USAID mission staff and their partners with: 1) an examination of the relationship between conflict and people’s livelihoods; 2) lessons in developing livelihoods programs--including an introduction to livelihood analysis; 3) a range of program options designed to reduce livelihood vulnerability, strengthen resiliency, and help people manage conflict-related shocks; and 4) listings of relevant USAID mechanisms, implementing partners, and contact information.

For a hardcopy, please email Juliet Hunt at jhunt@usaid.gov.

In December of 2005, Laura Hammond presented  Crisis and Recovery Skills Training: Livelihoods and Conflict . This presentation serves as an overview for the Livelihoods and Conflict Toolkit . To access this presentation and meeting notes, click here .

Other New Publications on PovertyFrontiers

DFID and the Private Sector: Working with the Private Sector to Eliminate Poverty:   This recent publication demonstrates the variety of DFID's work in areas such as infrastructure, investment climate reform, international trade, and increasing the access of the poor to business, financial, and social services.

Growth, Poverty and Inequality: Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: This World Bank publications reports that Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have witnessed a significant decrease in poverty, but poverty and vulnerability persist in the region, with more than 60 million people living on less than $2 a day.

Word Development Report 2006: The World Bank's annual publication focuses on eqity and development.  The report concludes that "inequality of opportunity, both within and among nations, sustains extreme deprivation, results in wasted human potential and often weakens prospects for overall prosperity and economic growth."

U.N.D.P. Human Development Report 2005: Entitled International Cooperation at a Crossroads: Aid, trade, and security in an unequal world, this report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).

World Resources Report (WRR): Wealth of the Poor: Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty is the first of three issues that will deal with the relationship between natural resources, economic growth, and democratic governance.  The report challenges conventional approaches and stresses the urgent need to look beyond aid projects, debt relief and trade reform and focus on local natural resources to address the crisis of poverty in all parts of the globe.  The USAID/EGAT Office of Natural Resources Management-led initiative “Nature, Wealth and Power: Best Practice for Revitalizing Rural Africa” is recognized as the intellectual foundation of the new WRR.