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Andrew Shepherd
Director of Programmes, Rural Policy and Governance Group
Research Fellow
Director, Chronic Poverty Research Centre

Andrew has been leading the production of the first International Chronic Poverty Report. He has also recently led work in ODI on 'Poorly Performing Countries', which is challenging the current international orthodoxy. His core interests are in policies and policy and implementation processes which will contribute to the sustainable elimination of poverty.

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Working Papers
Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Rural Productive Sectors: Insights from Malawi, Nicaragua and Vietnam
ODI Working Paper 258
This paper looks at the treatment of rural productive sectors in PRSs – particularly agriculture but also, more briefly, tourism, forestry and fisheries.
Elizabeth Cromwell, Cecilia Luttrell, Andrew Shepherd and Steve Wiggins. Edited by Lidia Cabral   December 2005
 
Others
Productive Strategies and Empowerment of Poor Rural Families to Participate Successfully in Global Markets - scoping study
Scoping study

This project seeks to provide a map for cutting edge problems and research agendas in rural economies in developing countries.

Jon Mitchell and Andrew Shepherd   September 2006
Ghana Northern Regional Growth
Project report
This report is the principal output of an investigation into how northern Ghana can contribute to the growth experienced by much of the rest of the country. The study asks whether there is growth potential in the north and if so, how to stimulate it. It also asks what the alternative is, and what is necessary to allow the poorest to participate in growth.
Andrew Shepherd, Charles Jebuni, Ramatu Al-Hassan, Andy McKay, Colin Poulton, Ann Whitehead, Jonathan Kydd, Seidu Alhassan.   October 2005
Policy Paper on Social Protection
Donor report
Paper commissioned as part of a project of the Overseas Development
Institute (ODI) to assist the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in developing an institutional policy and approach to social protection programming. This paper asks what is meant by social protection, clarifying its meaning, purpose and scope within DFID’s approach to poverty reduction and programme. It needs to be read in conjunction with the other background papers (see Food Security and Social Protection resources page).
Andrew Shepherd, with Rachel Marcus, Armando Barrientos   September 2004
 
Current projects
Agricultural Growth and Chronic Poverty

There is little empirical evidence on the relationship between economic growth and the chronically poor or the poorest, either with respect to how they participate in growth, or how they are affected by economic growth. The CPRC has begun to fill this gap.

Andrew Shepherd   2005-2008
 
Completed projects
Ghana Northern Regional Study

The study investigated the opportunities for and constraints on growth, and outlines the way forward.

Team Leader: Andrew Shepherd   2005
 
Contact
a.shepherd@odi.org.uk
Related links
Chronic Poverty Research Centre