Research and Projects

Research

Recognizing that the magnitude and quality of economic growth will have an important bearing on achieving the Millennium Development Goals, PEGNet's research agenda is focusing on selected topical and methodological research areas. These are expected to have a strong leverage as regards sustainable poverty reduction and/or to provide a significant contribution towards evaluating and monitoring progress in poverty reduction, with the overriding objective of identifying 'pathways out of poverty' in the developing world.

• The Rural Sector: Key to Poverty Reduction
• Resource-Based Development and Poverty Reduction
• Feasible Options for Redistribution

More details can be found here.

Projects

These projects are supported by PEGNet Grants

• Analysis of the Clinical and Welfare Effects of a Houshold Food Distribution Program to HIV-Affected Families in Lusaka, Zambia 
• Assessing the factors which influence safer irrigation practices for urban vegetable production in Ghana
• Determining factors of the demand for microinsurance of low-income households – the case of Ghana
• Does forced solidarity impede accumulation
• Does organic farming improve small-scale farmers’ livelihoods in rural Ghana? Does it foster sustainable development in the region?
• Employment Dynamics and Urban Poverty in Ethiopia
• Evaluating policies for MDG achievement in Madagascar and Uganda
• Evaluating the impacts of the Trademark Initiative on the coffee value chain and poverty in Ethiopia
• Evaluating the Socio-economic impact of Geographical Indications (GIs): A Case Study of Basmati Rice and Darjeeling Tea in India
• Fiscal Policy in the Rising Oil Economy of Ghana
• HIV/AIDS, Labour Productivity and Trade Competitiveness: Evidence from Kenya
• Aid and Sectoral Labour Productivity
• Income Diversification and Poverty in a Growing Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ghana
• Non-farm Work and Food Security Among Farm Households in Northern Ghana
• Pathways out of poverty: Income diversification of specialisation? Empirical evidence from poverty-exiting households in rural Keyna
• Strings Attached or Loose Ends? - The role of conditionality in Zambia's social cash transfer scheme 
• Subjective percepcions of income distribution and preferences for redistributive policies
• Tenure Differences and Improvement of Quality of Rented Plots by Rural Migrants in Ghana
• The Big Push – A Panacea to Rural Development and Achievement of Millennium Development Goals? The Case of Millennium Villages in Kenya
• The Complementarity of MDG Achievements: The Case of Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
• The Gendered Impact of Coffee Market Liberalization in Uganda
• The Role of Geographical Indications in Reducing Vulnerability to Poverty: A Case Study of Thai Jasmine Rice in Northeastern Thailand
• Unlocking potential: Tackling economic, institutional and social constraints of informal entrepreneurhsip in Sub-Saharan Africa