Themes

• Policies towards poverty in Ghana and Tanzania in the 1990's
• Policies towards poverty in Ethiopia
• Managing risk and the implications for poverty

Qualitative and quantitative approaches to the measurement of welfare:

• Genuine Q2 - Combining quantitative and qualitative reseach to understand poverty dynamics in Uganda
• Modelling and measuring subjective well-being
• Qualitative measurement in poverty analysis

• Impact of Remittances on Poverty
• Wages in the manufacturing sectors of Kenya and Ghana

Unemployment, race, wages and poverty in South Africa

• Unemployment, race and poverty in South Africa
• The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa: Voluntary or Involuntary
• The difficulty of measuring unemployment
• Unemployment and wages in South Africa

Vulnerability

• Social safety nets in Ethiopia
• Implications of uninsured risk

• Human capital acquisition and school quality in South Africa
• The value of education in low skill economies - Manufacturing in Kenya and Tanzania

Policy issues in Indian education

• Student achievement in government and private schools
• Education and women's labour market outcomes in India
• Gender-bias in the intra-household allocation of educational expenditure
• Schooling participation in rural India
• Teacher unions, politics and education in India

• How does social capital form?

Social capital and its uses

• Information, Health-Related Wellbeing and Social Networks of the Poor in Developing Countries
• Trade and social capital

Public services

• Health workers in Ethiopia
• Reproductive health and well-being
• Extension services and farm productivity in Zimbabwe
• Public policy and drought in Zimbabwe

• Governing redistribution: economic empowerment, informalisation and property regimes
• Institutions and development in Uganda
• Corruption and firm performance in Africa