Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigor and Relevance of Social Theory

Michael Woolcock

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Abstract: This paper focuses on both expanding and refining the analytical scope of the “social†(or non-economic) aspects of chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it. The argument in this paper proceeds as follows. In recognizing that poverty is “multi-dimensional†, today’s dominant policy discourses have actually made important, if often under-appreciated, steps to incorporate insights from social and political theory, but that these (hard-won) gains now need to be consolidated, advanced and sharpened. [CPRC Working Paper 104].

Keywords: chronic poverty; non-economic; social; political; theory; sociology; multi-dimensional; policy; Rural China; Development; scholars; culture; HIV; AIDS; Social relations; economic sociology; relations; social; Cameroon; China; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-01
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