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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Poverty dynamics. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 (OCoLC)607733475 |
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| Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tony Addison; David Hulme; S M Ravi Kanbur |
| ISBN: | 9780199557547 0199557543 0199557551 9780199557554 |
| OCLC Number: | 238899471 |
| Description: | xix, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. I. Introduction -- Poverty dynamics : measurement and understanding from an interdisciplinary perspective / Tony Addison, David Hulme and Ravi Kanbur -- pt. II. Poverty dynamics : poverty measurement and assessment -- Chronic poverty and all that : the measurement of poverty over time / Cesar Calvo and Stefan Dercon -- A class of chronic poverty measures / James E. Foster -- Measuring chronic non-income poverty / Isabel Gunther and Stephan Klasen -- The construction of an asset index : measuring asset accumulation in Ecuador / Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton -- Looking forward : theory-based measures of chronic poverty and vulnerability / Michael R. Carter and Munenobu Ikegami -- Poverty in time : exploring poverty dynmics from life history interviews in bangladesh / Peter Davis -- Subjective assessments, participatory methods, and poverty dynamics : the stages of progress method / Anirudh Krishna -- pt. III. Explanatory frameworks for understanding poverty dynamics -- Bringing politics back into poverty analysis : why understanding of social relations matters for policy on chronic poverty than measurement / John Harriss -- Poverty measurement blues : beyond 'q-squared' approaches to understanding chronic poverty in South Africa / Andries du Toit -- When endowments and opportunities don't match : understanding chronic poverty / S.R. Osmani -- Investments, bequests, and public policy : intergenerational transfers and the escape from poverty / Agnes R. Quisumbing -- Questioning the power of resiliene : are children up to the task of disrupting the transmission of poverty? / Jo Boyden and Elizabeth Cooper -- The social distribution of sanctioned harm : thinking through chronic poverty, durable poverty, and destitution / Maia Green -- Toward an economic sociology of chronic poverty : enhancing the rigour and relevance of social theory / Michael Woolcock. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Tony Addison, David Hulme, and Ravi Kanbur. |
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Abstract:
This book looks at poverty dynamics, or how individual experiences of poverty and wellbeing change over time. It includes work from anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists and combines qualitative and quantitative research approaches to help deepen our understanding of why some people remain poor while others escape.
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