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Gender Norms, Labour Supply and Poverty Reduction in Comparative Context: Evidence from Rural India and Bangladesh
Researchers measure the gender impact of poverty alleviation interventions in rural India and Bangladesh, including how impact has been mediated where cultural attitudes affect women's work and the affect of interventions.
Kenya, Africa
Does 'shame-proofing' anti-poverty programmes improve their effectiveness? Theory of change and impact policy evaluation in cross-national settings

Principal Investigator: Robert Lloyd Walker. Lead Organisation: University of Oxford

Co-investigator: Sony Pellissery; Grace Bantebya; Lichao Yang; Elaine Chase

A child at school in Sierra Leone, with a globe showing Africa.
Constructing a global framework for analysis of social exclusion from and within learning systems
In this research we aim to fill a gap that exists between idealistic policies that define equality as a main objective of education, and assessment of progress that remains focussed on isolated indicators of equity in access to structures.
Farmers, Nepal
Energy gardens for small-scale farmers in Nepal: institutions, species and technology
The Nepal Energy Garden forges new links across disciplines by integrating research on the institutional economics of energy and technology transfer with the knowledge of botanists and engineers to investigate the institutional economics of energy biomass and biofuel production.
Stakeholder meeting
Literacy development with deaf communities using sign language, peer tuition, and learner-generated online content: sustainable educational innovation
This pilot project provides English-language teaching for members of the deaf community in India including young people in high poverty contexts, and drafts a model of language-teaching interventions. It is an interdisciplinary collaboration including sign linguistics and technologists.
Labour law, development and poverty alleviation in low and middle-income countries

Principal Investigator: Simon Deakin. Lead Organisation: University of Cambridge

Co-investigator: Shelley Diana Marshall

Pupils attending deaf school in Sri Lanka
Learning outcomes and teacher effectiveness for children facing multiple disadvantages, including those with disabilities: India and Pakistan
The research delivers an in-depth understanding of the problems that teachers face supporting students from diverse backgrounds, the teaching practices they adopt, and the kinds of support they need to help all children fulfill their learning potential.
Street protests in Dili during the mid-2006 conflict in Timor-Leste.
Understanding the tipping point of urban conflict
The project aims to re-think conventional assumptions and offer new insights into the determinants of urban violence, including in particular identifying context-specific circumstances under which everyday urban conflict becomes violent.
Citizens and the state in urban India: an in-depth investigation on emergent citizenship and public goods provision

Principal Investigator: Michael John Patrick Walton. Lead Organisation: Centre of policy research, India

Co-investigator: Partha Mukhopadhyay

In Indian cities many people live in marginal areas, with insecure housing, and inadequate provision of most public services, such as water and sanitation, electricity, garbage collection and policing.

Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways
Principal Investigator: Sarah Caroline White. Lead Organisation: University of Bath (Social and Policy Sciences)
 
Co-Investigator: Stanley Gaines (Brunel University)

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