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Poverty dynamics : Interdisciplinary perpectives
Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2008Description: 356p xviISBN:- 9780199557554
- 339.400000 ADD
Contents:
CONTENTS:
List of Figures;
List of Tables;
List of Contributors:
Part I: Introduction;
1. Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, Tony Addison, David Hulme, and Ravi Kanbur;
Part II: Poverty Dynamics: Poverty Measurement and Assessment;
2. Chronic Poverty and All That: The Measurement of Poverty Over Time, Cesar Calvo and Stefan Dercon;
3. A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures, James E. Foster;
4. Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty, Isabel Günther and Stephan Klasen;
5. The Construction of an Asset Index Measuring Asset Accumulation in Ecuador, Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton;
6. Looking Forward: Theory-Based Measures of Chronic Poverty and Vulnerability, Michael R. Carter and Munenobu Ikegami;
7. Exploring Poverty Dynamics from Life History Interviews in Bangladesh, Peter Davis;
8. Subjective Assessments, Participatory Methods and Poverty Dynamics: The Stages of Progress Method, Anirudh Krishna;
Part III: Explanatory Frameworks for Understanding Poverty Dynamics;
9. Bringing Politics Back into Poverty Analysis: Why Understanding of Social Relations Matters More for Policy on Chronic Poverty than Measurement, John Harriss;
10. Poverty Measurement Blues: Beyond 'Q-Squared' Approaches to Understanding Chronic Poverty in South Africa, Andries du Toit;
11. When Endowments and Opportunities Don't Match: Understanding Chronic Poverty, S. R. Osmani;
12. Investments, Bequeaths, and Public Policy: Intergenerational Asset Transfers and the Escape From Poverty, Agnes Quisumbing;
13. Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children Up To the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty?, Jo Boyden and Elizabeth Cooper;
14. The Social Distribution of Sanctioned Harm: Thinking Through Chronic Poverty, Durable Poverty and Destitution, Maia Green;
15. Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigour and Relevance of Social Theory, Michael Woolcock;
Index.
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CONTENTS:
List of Figures;
List of Tables;
List of Contributors:
Part I: Introduction;
1. Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, Tony Addison, David Hulme, and Ravi Kanbur;
Part II: Poverty Dynamics: Poverty Measurement and Assessment;
2. Chronic Poverty and All That: The Measurement of Poverty Over Time, Cesar Calvo and Stefan Dercon;
3. A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures, James E. Foster;
4. Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty, Isabel Günther and Stephan Klasen;
5. The Construction of an Asset Index Measuring Asset Accumulation in Ecuador, Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton;
6. Looking Forward: Theory-Based Measures of Chronic Poverty and Vulnerability, Michael R. Carter and Munenobu Ikegami;
7. Exploring Poverty Dynamics from Life History Interviews in Bangladesh, Peter Davis;
8. Subjective Assessments, Participatory Methods and Poverty Dynamics: The Stages of Progress Method, Anirudh Krishna;
Part III: Explanatory Frameworks for Understanding Poverty Dynamics;
9. Bringing Politics Back into Poverty Analysis: Why Understanding of Social Relations Matters More for Policy on Chronic Poverty than Measurement, John Harriss;
10. Poverty Measurement Blues: Beyond 'Q-Squared' Approaches to Understanding Chronic Poverty in South Africa, Andries du Toit;
11. When Endowments and Opportunities Don't Match: Understanding Chronic Poverty, S. R. Osmani;
12. Investments, Bequeaths, and Public Policy: Intergenerational Asset Transfers and the Escape From Poverty, Agnes Quisumbing;
13. Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children Up To the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty?, Jo Boyden and Elizabeth Cooper;
14. The Social Distribution of Sanctioned Harm: Thinking Through Chronic Poverty, Durable Poverty and Destitution, Maia Green;
15. Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigour and Relevance of Social Theory, Michael Woolcock;
Index.
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