Introduction
- What is the purpose of the toolbox?
- Who is the toolbox for?
- How to use the toolbox
- The toolbox is a work in progress
Overarching issues
- The ethics of poverty research
- Confronting bias and assumptions
- Research and children
- Research and older people
- Research and impairment and disability
- Research and HIV/AIDS
- Research and conflict
- Developing international research partnerships
Designing research
- The research design process
- Types of poverty-oriented research
- Selecting a unit of analysis
- The quantitative-qualitative distinction
Combining methods
- Combining methods and triangulation
- Summary of common research methods
- How to choose which methods or mix of methods to use?
- Strengths and weaknesses of key methods
- When are key methods appropriate?
- Additional strengths and weaknesses of participatory methods
Collecting data
- Participatory approaches
- Livelihoods approaches
- Focus groups and interviews
- Case studies
- Life histories
Analysing data
- Coding and analysis
- Political analysis
- Introduction and theoretical survey
- Rights-based development
- Political capital
- Researching the politics of chronic poverty
- Social exclusion
- Quantitative analysis
- Introduction - quantitative analysis of poverty
- Poverty as a dynamic phenomenon
- Measuring and studying chronic poverty based on panel data
- Analysing dynamic poverty issues based on repeated cross-sectional data
Writing up
Dissemination
- Policy engagement and media influence resource pack