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.

Autorentext
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

Inhalt

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