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Poverty dynamics : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Tony Addison, David Hulme and Ravi Kanbur.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xix, 356 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199557554 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.4 ADD
Contents:
Introduction; 1. Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective; 2. Chronic Poverty and All That: The Measurement of Poverty Over Time; 3. A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures; 4. Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty; 5. The Construction of an Asset Index Measuring Asset Accumulation in Ecuador; 6. Looking Forward: Theory-Based Measures of Chronic Poverty and Vulnerability; 7. Exploring Poverty Dynamics from Life History Interviews in Bangladesh; 8. Subjective Assessments, Participatory Methods and Poverty Dynamics: The Stages of Progress Method; 9. Bringing Politics Back into Poverty Analysis: Why Understanding of Social Relations Matters More for Policy on Chronic Poverty than Measurement; 10. Poverty Measurement Blues: Beyond 'Q-Squared' Approaches to Understanding Chronic Poverty in South Africa; 11. When Endowments and Opportunities Don't Match: Understanding Chronic Poverty; 12. Investments, Bequeaths, and Public Policy: Intergenerational Asset Transfers and the Escape From Poverty; 13. Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children Up To the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty?; 14. The Social Distribution of Sanctioned Harm: Thinking Through Chronic Poverty; 15. Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigour and Relevance of Social Theory.
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Introduction;
1. Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective;
2. Chronic Poverty and All That: The Measurement of Poverty Over Time;
3. A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures;
4. Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty;
5. The Construction of an Asset Index Measuring Asset Accumulation in Ecuador;
6. Looking Forward: Theory-Based Measures of Chronic Poverty and Vulnerability;
7. Exploring Poverty Dynamics from Life History Interviews in Bangladesh;
8. Subjective Assessments, Participatory Methods and Poverty Dynamics: The Stages of Progress Method; 9. Bringing Politics Back into Poverty Analysis: Why Understanding of Social Relations Matters More for Policy on Chronic Poverty than Measurement;
10. Poverty Measurement Blues: Beyond 'Q-Squared' Approaches to Understanding Chronic Poverty in South Africa;
11. When Endowments and Opportunities Don't Match: Understanding Chronic Poverty;
12. Investments, Bequeaths, and Public Policy: Intergenerational Asset Transfers and the Escape From Poverty;
13. Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children Up To the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty?;
14. The Social Distribution of Sanctioned Harm: Thinking Through Chronic Poverty;
15. Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigour and Relevance of Social Theory.