Kate Bird

Research Associate, Growth, Poverty and Inequality

Kate is a micro-economist with a particular interest in poverty and chronic poverty, rural livelihoods, coping strategies and diversification. Kate has considerable experience in evaluating the household and intra-household impacts of pro-poor projects, programs and policies.

She is currently leading interdisciplinary and multi-country research within the Chronic Poverty Research Centre into chronic poverty in remote rural areas. She has particular experience in sub-Saharan Africa and India, but has worked elsewhere in Asia and in transitional economies.

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Building blocks for equitable growth: lessons from the BRICS

Publication - Discussion papers - 14 January 2013

ODI Working Papers 365

Milo Vandemoortele, Kate Bird, Andries Du Toit, Minquan Liu, Kunal Sen and Fábio Veras Soares

This ODI Working Paper examines the experiences of four of the BRICS – Brazil, China, India and South Africa – and identifies four key factors shaping the countries’ pattern of growth: people having access to assets; investment in productive activities; social transfers; and a political-economic context where inclusion is a priority.

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Special Issue: Inheritance and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 1 September 2012

Development Policy Review 30 5

Elizabeth Cooper and Kate Bird

This collection of articles contains new and important findings concerning the scale and significance of asset transfers through inheritance among different populations, as well as the ways in which inheritance affects economic and social status and mobility.

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GSP graduation: will it reduce poverty?

Publication - Briefing papers - 21 October 2011

ODI Project Briefings 67

Christopher Stevens, Kate Bird, Jodie Keane, Jane Kenna, Dirk Willem te Velde and Kate Higgins

Europe is reviewing the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), its broadest-based trade policy to support developing country exports. This Project Briefing summarises ODI research, including case studies on Bangladesh, China, India, Kenya, Madagascar and Viet Nam, to identify the potential impact of proposals on key exports.

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The poverty impact of the proposed graduation threshold in the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) trade scheme

Publication - Research reports and studies - 21 October 2011

Chris Stevens, Jodie Keane, Jane Kennan, Kate Bird, Kate Higgins

This report show the level at which graduation sets ‘the bar’ for assessing the relative effectiveness in reducing poverty of the alternatives.

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Development Progress - exploring what works and why

Projects - July 2011 to July 2015

ODI's Development Progress aims to measure, understand and communicate where and how progress in development has happened. What are the latest methods we deploy to measure progress and why do they matter? What are the social, economic and political contexts that have facilitated and enabled progress in different countries? How do domestic and foreign resources contribute to financing progress? Building on phase one of this research - Development Progress: a library of stories - this four-year project explores these and other questions, with an aim to provide evidence for what’s worked and why over the past two decades.

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