A New Profile of the Global Poor

Castañeda, Andrés; Doan, Dung; Newhouse, David; Nguyen, Minh Cong; Uematsu, Hiroki; Azevedo, João Pedro

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.08.002

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“…Studies [for e.g. [134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154] also show that poor people often have a high level of awareness about the environment, and are in a position to protect the environment, as a sustainable environment will support their livelihoods. Hence, we can say that the 'poverty creates environmental degradation' argument is vastly insufficient for understanding the nature of these processes.…”

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Understanding Poverty-Environment Relationship from Sustainable Development Perspectives

Rai

2019

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Many observers conceptualize the environment-poverty link as “downward spiral,” with population growth and social exclusion leading to environmental deterioration. However, recent micro and small scale existential study challenges this model, showing striking heterogeneity in natural resource management by the poor, including display of their success in adapting to environmental change and the efficacy of policies in affecting outcomes. Using both conceptual and empirical material, this article aims to assess the poverty-environment relationship. I will specifically examine criticisms of the “poverty causes environmental degradation” approach, arguing that recent scholarly work on the complex web of factors involved in the poverty-environment nexus provides a more useful toolkit for assessing the poverty-environment link in local places. I will conclude by analyzing how policies can more effectively address the interrelationship between poverty and environmental degradation, highlighting promising areas of impact.

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Understanding Poverty-Environment Relationship from Sustainable Development Perspectives

Rai

2019

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“…Crucial is that the majority of these young people live in rural areas and are chronically unemployed or in vulnerable work positions (UNDP 2014;AfDB 2016;Castaneda et al 2018). These young men and women face a number of work and education challenges, but also new opportunities, in rapidly changing rural to urban spaces.…”

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At the intersection of gender and generation: Engaging with 'youth' in the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

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Basnett³

2019

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“…3 In a recent survey of global poverty based on data from 89 developing countries constituting 84% of the developing world population, Castañeda et al (2018) calculate that 80% of the globe's extreme poor live in rural areas. 4 As the authors further elaborate: Searching for a nexus between land use, poverty, and environment in order to inform policy is irrelevant at best or misleading at worst if we narrow our analytical lens solely to the interactions among these three factors.…”

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“…In a recent survey of global poverty based on data from 89 developing countries constituting 84% of the developing world population, Castañeda et al . () calculate that 80% of the globe's extreme poor live in rural areas.…”

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Rethinking Asian poverty in a time of Asian prosperity

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2018

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Southeast Asia is a development success story. By 2025, it is forecast that extreme poverty in the region will have been ‘eradicated’. Does this mean that the challenges so evident in the 1960s when the countries of the region began to pursue development have been met, and the objectives achieved? The paper makes a case for thinking afresh about development and the poverty project, recognising that development is never neatly achieved but, rather, re‐worked, re‐engineered and re‐imagined over time. This is done through identifying different categories of ‘poor’, each produced through different poverty‐making processes, measured and viewed in different ways, and their poverty addressed using different approaches and policies. With specific reference to the cases of Laos and Thailand, and drawing on longitudinal research in the latter country, it is argued that while economic growth does trickle down, it trickles down in quite discrete and often contingent ways. Furthermore, there is always development work to be done, because development creates its own work.

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A New Profile of the Global Poor

Cited by 199 publications

References 11 publications

Understanding Poverty-Environment Relationship from Sustainable Development Perspectives

Understanding Poverty-Environment Relationship from Sustainable Development Perspectives

At the intersection of gender and generation: Engaging with 'youth' in the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Rethinking Asian poverty in a time of Asian prosperity

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