Table of Contents
Prelims (Preface, Foreword - Ravi Kanbu, Contributors)
1. What works for the poorest?
David Hulme and David Lawson
Part A: Creating knowledge about the poorest
2. Pro-poorest growth: A National Household Survey Approach
Umar Serajuddin, Hassan Zaman and Ambar Narayan
3. A ‘Q-squared’ approach to enhancing our understanding of the chronically poor
David Lawson
4. Alternative accounts of chronic disadvantage: Income deficits versus food security
Naila Kabeer
Part B: Targeting the poorest
5. Identifying and targeting the extreme poor: A methodology for rural Bangladesh
Binayak Sen and Sharifa Begum
6. Testing combined targeting systems for cash transfer programs: the case of the CT-OVC programme in Kenya
Carlos Alviar, Francisco Ayala and Sudhanshu Handa
7. Institutional issues in scaling up programmes for the health needs of the very poor
Hilary Standing and Elizabeth Kirk
Part C: Policies and programmes for the poorest: case studies
8. Eradicating extreme poverty: The Chile Solidario programme
Armando Barrientos
9. Assisting the poorest in Bangladesh: Learning from BRAC’s ‘Targeting the Ultra Poor’ Programme
David Hulme and Karen Moore
10. Unconditional cash transfers to the very poor in central Vietnam: Is it enough to 'just give them the cash’?
Peter Chaudhry
11. Exclusion to empowerment: Women of the Siddi community in Gujarat, India
Somnath Bandyopadhyay, Apoorva Oza and David Nygaard
12. The NREGA and rural women in poverty: Entitlements, issues and emerging concerns
Rina Bhattacharya, Meera Pillai and Ratna Sudarshan
13. Strategies for promoting decent contract labour: Experiences from South African and UK agriculture
Stephanie Barrientos
14. The role of health equity funds in meeting health-related needs of the poorest in urban areas of Cambodia.
Chean Rithy Men and Maurits Van Pelt
Part D: Making it work: finding the money and spreading the knowledge
15. Linking microfinance and safety net programmes: New pathways for the poorest
Syed Hashemi and Malika Anand
16. Revenue mobilization for poverty reduction: What we know, what we need to know
Tony Addison
17. Making poverty reduction programmes work for the poorest
David Hulme and David Lawson
Back Matter (Index)
Endorsements
‘After this book, development policy and practice should never be the same again.’ Professor Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies, UK. ‘This book, based on field experience in Bangladesh and elsewhere, gives highly practical guidance on what we know about the ultra-poor, how to identify them, and what best advances them.’ Professor Michael Lipton, Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK. ‘Everyone committed to the MDGs worldwide should know this book.’ Professor Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University. ‘Einstein once noted ruefully that efforts to combine practice and theory too often left us with a world in which “nothing is working, and no-one knows why”. Happily, contemporary efforts to integrate scholarship and action in the quest to reduce global poverty are yielding a fruitful array of innovative responses whose efficacy is both demonstrated and understood. This book showcases the best of these initiatives.’ Michael Woolcock, World Bank. ‘What Works For The Poorest is must reading for policymakers and practitioners who are concerned about the poorest of the poor.’ Dale W. Adams, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University
