This background paper for the Chronic Poverty Report 2007-08 addresses three key questions: 1) Where there is sustained economic growth, how can governments ensure that markets operate in ways that include the chronically poor on beneficial terms? 2) Where there is low or no growth, how can the...

This paper examines the relationship of the poorest with growth (absolute sense), and whether or not the relationship the very poorest people have with growth is different from that for the poor as a whole (relative). Impacts of economic growth on the poorest are routed through direct channels...

This paper draws on available urban panel literature, the 16 OPPG studies, and wider literature. It outlines the evidence for urban poverty-growth relationships in both contexts of economic growth and economic stagnation, before exploring in more depth the issues of urban fragility