Young Lives is an international longitudinal study on childhood poverty and policy in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam. This paper draws on examples from Young Lives quantitative and qualitative research and analyses to illustrate how household decisions and the policy context...

As the main focus of poverty reduction activity in poor countries, the PRSP approach has the potential to make a major difference to chronic poverty. This paper examines the ways in which PRSPs treat chronic poverty and their potential to make significant impacts on it.Many recent reviews have...

This report, based on research conducted in 2001, examines the ways in which interim PRSPs and PRSPs are dealing with social protection issues. Adequate social protection is increasingly recognized to be crucial for poverty reduction. However, these PRS documents suggest that it is not being...