Description
Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importance of assets and vulnerability, and conflict, and new thinking about the close relationship between social exclusion and adverse incorporation.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; Karen Moore & Julia Brunt 2. An Evolving Framework for Understanding Chronic Poverty; Andrew Shepherd 3. Understanding Poverty Dynamics and Economic Mobility; Bob Baulch 4. The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: An Overview; Kate Bird 5. Does Vulnerability Create Poverty Traps?; Armando Barrientos 6. Assets and Chronic Poverty; Andy McKay 7. Adverse-incorporation, Social Exclusion and Chronic Poverty; Sam Hickey & Andries du Toit 8. Violent Conflict and Chronic Poverty; Tony Addison, Kathryn Bach & Tim Braunholtz-Speight 9. Low Accumulation, High Vulnerability and Greater Exclusions: Why the Chronically Poor Cannot Escape Poverty in Bangladesh, or Elsewhere in South Asia; Binayak Sen & Zulfiqar Ali 10 . Understanding Youth Life-course Poverty in Ethiopia; Yisak Tafere 11 . Policies to Address Chronic Poverty in India; Aasha Kapur Mehta, Amita Shah, Trishna Satpathy, Shashanka Bhide & Anand Kumar 12. Chronic Poverty in Uganda: Issues and Policy Options; Charles Lwanga-Ntale 13. Conclusion; Andrew Shepherd
