Working Papers

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53 March
2008

Behavioral Responses to Changes Accompanying Reform: A Q-Squared Analysis from Than Hoa Province, Vietnam - (Paul Shaffer, Trent University and University of Toronto)

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52 March
2008

Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective. - (Tony Addison, The University of Manchester; David Hulme, The University of Manchester; Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University)

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51 March
2008

On Trying to be Q-Squared: Merging methods for a Technical Minded Client - (Nilakshi de Silva Centre for Poverty Analysis, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Neranjana Gunetilleke Centre for Poverty Analysis, Colombo, Sri Lanka)

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50 November 2007 THE USE OF QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE SURVEY RESULTS TO INFLUENCE POLICY: THE CASE OF PARTICIPATORY SERVICE DELIVERY (PSDA) IN ZANZIBAR - (SLAUS T. MWISOMBA DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA ) Abstracts
49 November 2007 A Q-Squared approach to Pro-Poor Policy Formulation in Namibia - (Sebastian Levine, United Nations Development Programme, Namibia; Benjamin Roberts, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa) Abstracts
48 November 2007 Community-based Change Ranking: Understanding Poverty Dynamics from a Multidimensional Perspective - (Munshi Sulaiman, BRAC, Bangladesh; Imran Matin, BRAC, Bangladesh)
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47 November 2007 Targeting Context Specific Reasons for Reducing Poverty Faster: Utilizing the Stages-of-Progress Methodology - (Anirudh Khrishna
Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC)
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46 November 2007 Trade Liberalisation and Intra-household Poverty in Vietnam: a Q2 Social Impact Analysis - (Nicola Jones, Overseas Development Institute, London, UK; Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Development and Policies Research Center, Hanoi; Nguyen Thu Hang, Center for Analysis and Forecasting, Hanoi ) Abstracts
45 November 2007 Monitoring Empowerment in Policy and Programme Interventions: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches - (Jeremy Holland, Oxford Policy Management, UK; Simon Brook, Oxford Policy Management, UK; Nora Dudwick, PRMPR, World Bank; Mette Bertelsen, PRMPR, World Bank; Gil Yaron, GY Associates) Abstracts
44 November 2007 Whose Numbers Count? Resolving Conflicting Evidence on Bt Cotton in India - (Ronald J. Herring, Cornell University) Abstracts
43 November 2007 Identifying and Communicating Pro-Poor Policy Messages to Policy Audiences: the Case of Chronic Poverty in Uganda - (Kate Bird, Overseas Development Institute) Abstracts
42 November 2007 POVERTY DYNAMICS AND LIFE TRAJECTORIES IN RURAL BANGLADESH - (Bob Baulch , Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex; Peter Davis, Department of Economics and International Development, University of Bath) Abstracts
41 November 2007 Evaluation of entra 21 using Quantitative and Qualitative Data - (María Laura Alzúa, IEFAL-Fundación Mediterránea, Argentina; Paula Nahirñak, IEFAL-Fundación Mediterránea, Argentina; Belissario Alvarez de Toledo. IEFAL-Fundación Mediterránea, Argentina) Abstracts
40 November 2007 Combining Survey and Ethnographic Methods to Evaluate Conditional Cash Transfer Programs -(Michelle Adato, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.) Abstracts
39 June 2007 Conceptualizing social exclusion in the context of India’s poorest regions: a contribution to the Qual-Quant debate -(Arjan de Haan
Department for International Development (UK))
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38 June 2007 Community Wealth-Ranking and Household Surveys: An Integrative Approach - (Bereket Kebede, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia ; Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE); University of Oxford) Abstracts
37 June 2007 Figuring Out Accountability: Selected uses of official statistics by civil society to improve public sector performance -(Christopher Scott, London School of Economics and Political Science) Abstracts
36 April
2007
From Models to Mechanisms: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Literacy and Development -(Bryan Maddox School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia) Abstracts
35 April
2007
Weighting Dimensions of Poverty Based on People’s Priorities: Constructing a Composite Poverty Index for the Maldives -(Hans de Kruijk, Erasmus University; Martine Rutten, Dutch Ministry of Finance and School of Economics) Abstracts
34 April
2007
Bringing Politics Back In To Poverty Analysis: Why Understanding of Social Relations Matters More for Policy on Chronic Poverty than Measurement -(John Harriss, Simon Fraser University) Abstracts
33 February 
2007
Poverty Measurement Blues: Some Reflections on the Space for Understanding ‘Chronic’ and ‘Structural’ Poverty in South Africa -(Dr Andries du Toit, Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, School of Government University of the Western Cape, South Africa) Abstracts
32 February 
2007
A Comparison of Quantitative and Qualitative Poverty Targeting Methods in Vietnam -(Nga Nguyet Nguyen, The World Bank, Hanoi Office ; Martin Rama, The World Bank, Hanoi Office) Abstracts
31 February 
2007
Core Poverty, Vagueness and Adaptation: A New Methodology and Some Results for South Africa -(David A. Clark, Global Povery Research Group, ), Universities of Manchester and Oxford, UK and Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), University of Manchester, UK ; Mozaffar Qizilbash, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK ) Abstracts
30 August
2006
Annotated Bibliography of Recent Q2 Analyses of Poverty -(Jessica da Silva) Abstracts
29 August
2006
Using Rapid City Surveys to Inform Municipal Social Policy – An Application in Cali, Columbia -(Jesko Hentschel, The World Bank) Abstracts
28 August
2006
Inter-country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach: An Empirical Exercise -(Sanjay Reddy, Department of Economics, Barnard College and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University; Sujata Visaria, Department of Economics, Boston University; Muhammad Asali, Department of Economics, Columbia University)
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27 June
2006
Representing Poverty and Attacking Representations: Perspectives on Poverty from Social Anthropology -(Maia Green, Global Poverty Research Group and Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester) Abstracts
26 June
2006
Pluralism, Tenancy and Poverty: Cultivating Open-Mindedness in Poverty Studies -(Wendy Olsen, Global Poverty Research Group, Universities of Manchester and Oxford, UK.) Abstracts
25 June
2006
Experiencing Poverty in Africa: Perspectives from Anthropology - (David Booth, Overseas Development Institute, UK., Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK., Alison Tierney, University of Edinburgh, UK.) Abstracts
24 April
2006
Poverty.Dynamics.and.the.Role.of.Livestock.in the Peruvian Andes - (P. Kristjanson, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya, A. Krishna, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, M. Radeny, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya, J. Kuan, Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN), G. Quilca, CARE-Peru, A. Sanchez-Urrelo, CARE-Peru & C. Leon-Velarde, International Potato Centre (CIP), Peru) Abstracts
23 April
2006
Poverty Persistence and Transitions in Uganda: A Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis - (David Lawson, University of Manchester, UK., Andy McKay, University of Bath & John Okidi, Economic Policy Research Centre, Kampala) Abstracts
22 April
2006
And Never the Twain Shall Meet? An Exchange on the Strengths and Weaknesses of Anthropology and Economics in Analyzing the Commons - (Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University & Annelise Riles, Cornell University) Abstracts
21 April
2006
Conceptual Ferment in Poverty and Inequality Measurement: The View from Economics and Sociology - (David Grusky, Stanford University & Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University) Abstracts
20 February
2006
Community Participation in Social Funds in Malawi and Zambia - (Anju Vajja, Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank & Howard White, Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank) Abstracts
19 February
2006
The Case for Cross-Disciplinary Social Science Research on Poverty, Inequality and Well-being - (David Hulme, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester & John Toye, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford)
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18 February
2006
Conversations between Anthropologists and Economists - (Metin M. Cosgel, Economics Dept., University of Connecticut) Abstracts
17 February
2006
Methodological Approaches in Economics and Anthropology
- (Pranab Bardhan, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley & Isha Ray, Energy and Resources Group, University of California at Berkeley)
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16 December
2005
The Social Impact of Social Funds in Jamaica: A “Participatory Econometric” Analysis of Targeting, Collective Action, and Participation in Community-Driven Development - (Vijayendra Rao, The World Bank, Washington DC & Ana María Ibáñez, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia) Abstracts
15 December
2005
Studying Multi-Dimensional Poverty in Ethiopia: towards a Q-Integrated Approach -(Philippa Bevan, University of Bath) Abstracts
14 December
2005
Combining Participatory and Survey-based Approaches to Poverty Monitoring and Analysis*-(Simon Appleton, University of Nottingham & David Booth, Overseas Development Institute) Abstracts
13 December
2005
Participation and Numbers -(Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex) Abstracts
12 October
2005
Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data in Welfare Policy Evaluations in the United States - (Andrew S. London, Syracuse University, Saul Schwartz, Carleton University& Ellen K. Scott, University of Oregon) Abstracts
11 October
2005
The Best of Both Worlds: Producing National Statistics using Participatory Methods - (Carlos Barahona, Statistical Services Centre, The University of Reading, UK & Sarah Levy, Calibre Consultants, Reading U.K.) Abstracts
10 October
2005
Understanding Rural Poverty and Investment in Agriculture: An Assessment of Integrated Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Western Kenya - (Frank Place, World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya, Michelle Adato, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, Paul Hebinck, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands) Abstracts
9 October
2005
UNDERSTANDING POVERTY AND VULNERABILITY IN INDIA’S UTTAR PRADESH AND BIHAR: A Q-SQUARED APPROACH - (Barbara Parker, Save the Children US, Dushanbe, Tajikistan & Valerie Kozel, The World Bank) Abstracts
8 October
2005
‘P3 > Q2’ IN NORTHERN ORISSA; an example of integrating ‘Combined Methods’ (Q2) through a ‘Platform for Probing Poverties’ (P3) - (Alan Rew, Cntr. for Development Studies, University of Wales Swansea, Shahzad Khan, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Orissa & Martin Rew, Research Fellow, HIV/AIDS Unit, Division of Social Statistics, University of Southampton.) Abstracts
7 October
2005
SQUARING THE ‘Q’s? METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON A STUDY OF DESTITUTION IN ETHIOPIA - (Kay Sharp, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex) Abstracts
6 October
2005
Methodological Innovations in Research on the Dynamics of Poverty: A Longitudinal Study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - (Michelle Adato, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA, Francie Lund, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa & Phakama Mhlongo, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa) Abstracts
5 October
2005
Governance in the Gullies: Democratic Responsiveness and Leadership in Delhi’s Slums - (Saumitra Jha, Department of Economics, Stanford University, Vijayendra Rao, Development Research Group, The World Bank & Michael Woolcock, Development Research Group, The World Bank) Abstracts
4 October
2005

“Hearing the voices of the poor”: Assigning poverty lines on the basis of local perceptions of poverty; a quantitative analysis of qualitative data from participatory wealth ranking in rural South Africa - (James R Hargreaves et. al., London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

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3 October
2005

Combining Quantitative and Qualitative methods in Assessing Chronic Poverty: The Case of Rwanda - (Gerard Howe, Department for International Development, UK & Andrew McKay, University of Bath, UK)

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2 October
2005

Epistemology, Normative Theory and Poverty Analysis: Implications for Q-Squared in Practice - (Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University & Paul Shaffer, University of Toronto)

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1 October
2005
Q-Squared - Qualitative and Quantitative Poverty Appraisal: Complementarities, Tensions and the Way Forward - (Ravi Kanbur (Editor) Cornell University ) Abstracts

Publications

Ravi Kanbur and Paul Shaffer (Eds). “Q-Squared in Practice: Experiences of Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis.” World Development Special Issue. Forthcoming, 2006.

Paul Shaffer, 2005 "Assumptions Matter: Reflections on the Kanbur Typology". Focaal - European Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 45, No. 1. 2005

Ravi Kanbur (Ed.) Qualitative and Quantitative Poverty Appraisal. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003.

 

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