Why Poverty Persists

Edited by Bob Baulch

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Abstract: This edited book analyses what traps people in chronic poverty, and what allows them to escape from it, using long-term panel surveys from six Asian and African countries. The distinguishing feature of these studies, which were commissioned by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, is they span longer periods or have more survey waves than most developing country panels. This allows a detailed account of the maintainers of chronic poverty and drivers of poverty dynamics. Many of the studies (from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa and Vietnam) are written by leading development economists, and all pay careful attention to the difficult issues of attrition, measurement error and tracking. The book’s comparative perspective highlights the common factors which cause people to fall into chronic poverty and allow them to break-free from it. A number of promising policies and interventions for reducing chronic poverty are identified.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9780857930248
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Overview: Poverty Dynamics and Persistence in Asia and Africa

Bob Baulch

Ch 2 Poverty Transitions, Shocks and Consumption in Rural Bangladesh, 1996–97 to 2006–07

Agnes Quisumbing

Ch 3 A Poor Life? Chronic Poverty and Downward Mobility in Rural Ethiopia, 1994 to 2004

Stefan Dercon and Catherine Porter

Ch 4 The Determinants and Consequences of Chronic and Transient Poverty in Nepal, 1995–96 to 2003–04

Saurav Dev Bhatta and Suman K. Sharma

Ch 5 Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sindh, Pakistan, 1987–88 to 2004–05

Hari Ram Lohano

Ch 6 Poverty Traps and Structural Poverty in South Africa: Reassessing the Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, 1993 to 2004

Julian May, Ingrid Woolard and Bob Baulch

Ch 7 Poverty Dynamics in Vietnam, 2002 to 2006

Bob Baulch and Vu Hoang Dat

Ch 8 Chronic Poverty: What is to be Done?

Bob Baulch

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