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Chronic Poverty

Concepts, Causes and Policy

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Andrew Shepherd

    1. Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, Overseas Development Institute, London, UK

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  2. Julia Brunt

    1. Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, Brooks World Poverty Institute, The University of Manchester, UK

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Part of the book series: Rethinking International Development series (RID)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Karen Moore, Julia Brunt
    Pages 1-6

  3. An Evolving Framework for Understanding and Explaining Chronic Poverty

    • Andrew Shepherd
    Pages 7-37

  4. Understanding Poverty Dynamics and Economic Mobility

    • Bob Baulch
    Pages 38-59

  5. The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: An Overview

    • Kate Bird
    Pages 60-84

  6. Does Vulnerability Create Poverty Traps?

    • Armando Barrientos
    Pages 85-111

  7. Assets and Chronic Poverty

    • Andy McKay
    Pages 112-133

  8. Adverse Incorporation, Social Exclusion, and Chronic Poverty

    • Sam Hickey, Andries du Toit
    Pages 134-159

  9. Violent Conflict and Chronic Poverty

    • Tony Addison, Kathryn Bach, Tim Braunholtz-Speight
    Pages 160-182

  10. Low Accumulation, High Vulnerability, and Greater Exclusion: Why the Chronically Poor Cannot Escape Poverty in Bangladesh, or Elsewhere in South Asia

    • Binayak Sen, Zulfiqar Ali
    Pages 183-207

  11. Understanding Youth Life-Course Poverty in Ethiopia

    • Yisak Tafere
    Pages 208-222

  12. Policies to Address Chronic Poverty in India

    • Aasha Kapur Mehta, Amita Shah, Trishna Satpathy, Shashanka Bhide, Anand Kumar
    Pages 223-245

  13. Chronic Poverty in Uganda: Lessons from 10 Years of Research and Policy Engagement

    • Charles Lwanga-Ntale
    Pages 246-269

  14. Conclusion and Policy Implications

    • Andrew Shepherd
    Pages 270-282

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 283-307
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, Overseas Development Institute, London, UK

    Andrew Shepherd

  • Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, Brooks World Poverty Institute, The University of Manchester, UK

    Julia Brunt

About the editors

Tony Addison, United Nations University Word Institute of Development Economics Research, Finland S.M. Zulfiqar Ali, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies Kathryn Bach, Overseas Development Institute, UK Armando Barrientos, Brooks World Poverty Institute, UK Bob Baulch, Tan Tao University, Vietnam Shashanka Bhide, National Council for Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, India Kate Bird, Overseas Development Institute, UK Tim Braunholtz-Speight, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK Julia Brunt, Brooks World Poverty Institute, UK Andries du Toit, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Sam Hickey, University of Manchester, UK Dr Anand Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Andy McKay,University of Sussex, UK Aasha Kapur Mehta, Indian Institute of Public Administration Charles Lwanga-Ntale, Development Initiatives, East Africa Karen Moore, UNESCO, France Trishna Satpathy, Human Development Resource Centre, UK Binayak Sen,Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies Amita Shah, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, India Andrew Shepherd, Overseas Development Institute, UK Yisak Tafere, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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