Ending Extreme Poverty Amidst Fragility, Conflict, and Violence
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posted on 2024-09-05, 21:20authored byVidya Diwakar
Fragile contexts experience a range of political, security, environmental, social, economic
and human capital constraints, and are typically characterised by limited government
authority, legitimacy, and capacity (OECD, 2020; Carmen et al., 2009). Some of these drivers
can hamper poverty reduction, which renders it instrumental in acknowledging and
responding to poverty differently within fragile, conflict-affected, and violent settings (FCVS).
Indeed, interventions that seek to reduce poverty may not always be appropriate for or
effective in FCVS, given that many of the structural conditions necessary for stability and
pro-poor service delivery are absent or inadequate. Moreover, where they do not adequately
engage with conflict dimensions and foundational principles of working in fragile contexts,
interventions may lead to unintended consequences that could generate or fuel conflict
(Diwakar et al., 2020).
This paper examines how FCV has affected efforts to reduce extreme poverty today and in
the lead-up to 2030. Its primary objectives are to provide a high-level summary of the latest,
well-evidenced, research on measures to address extreme poverty amidst FCV and to
identify priority areas where further research could contribute value. It is a non-systematic
review of the leading drivers between poverty and FCV, the current body of evidence on
measures to address these drivers and well-documented evidence gaps. The report draws
on peer-reviewed academic research and grey literature from leading institutions and
thinkers. This paper aims to identify evidence and literature gaps that might be filled by the
Data and Evidence to End Extreme Poverty (DEEP) project, with a focus on DEEP priority
countries, while also introducing principles for the prioritization of research on policies and
programmes with the potential to promote extreme poverty reduction in FCVS more
generally.
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Publisher
Data and Evidence to End Extreme Poverty Research Programme/Oxford Policy Management
Citation
Diwakar, V. (2023) Ending Extreme Poverty Amidst Fragility, Conflict, and Violence, DEEP Thematic Paper 2, Data and Evidence to End Extreme Poverty Research Programme, Oxford, DOI: 10.55158/DEEPTP2