From correlates and characteristics to causes: thinking about poverty from a chronic poverty perspective

Green, Maia; Hulme, David

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.09.013

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“…The economic literature suggests two different philosophies to measure poverty (Green & Hulme, 2005). Whereas the first concept captures a person's economic inability to meet very basic needs, the second measure expresses a certain distance of individual income from the community norm.…”

Section: Choice Of Poverty Thresholdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape?

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Using rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces, this paper identifies determinants of long-term poverty and tests the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Special emphasis is given to the selection of the poverty line and inter-regional differences across provinces. Results suggest that the majority of population seems to be only temporary poor. However, the probability to leave poverty for those who were poor is differently affected by poverty duration across provinces ranging from no duration dependence in Zhejiang to highly significant duration dependence in Yunnan. The number of non-working family members, education, and several village characteristics seem to be the most important covariates. Terms of use: Documents in

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Section: Choice Of Poverty Thresholdmentioning

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Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape?

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“…Another finding from the literature is that declines into poverty are rarely caused by single events (in fact arguably they are not caused by events at all, but by social processes, see for example, Green and Hulme, (2005) on relational aspects of chronic poverty). This finding is confirmed by the QCA where the poverty drivers it identifies -lack of rainfall, family illness, lack of labour and high food prices -are clearly related.…”

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Chronic Poverty in Rural Ethiopia through the Lens of Life-histories

Camfield

Roelen²

2013

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

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Studying chronic poverty using retrospective qualitative data (life-histories) in conjunction with longitudinal panel data is now recognized to provide deep and reliable insights. This paper uses three rounds of panel data and life-histories collected by Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty, to identify factors that contribute to households becoming or remaining poor in rural Ethiopia. It combines a case-centred and a variable-centred approach, analysing and comparing the experiences of individual households (cases) using qualitative and quantitative techniques and interrogating these findings by looking at attributes of households (variables) across a larger sample. The substantive findings on poverty ‘drivers’ and ‘maintainers’ support those of previous studies: rainfall, illness, debt, exclusion from the main social protection scheme. But by mixing different types of data and analysis, the paper shows that combinations of factors rather than single events drive households into poverty, and that household characteristics play an important role. The primary contribution of the paper is methodological as it presents a novel method of using life-histories to investigate chronic poverty in rural Ethiopia by generating or testing hypotheses/findings on poverty drivers and maintainers

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“…There was significant upward mobility of favela residents in our three study communities relative to the population of Rio as a whole. The favelas, although they remain stigmatized spaces, did not reflect the chronic poverty discussed in the literature of the Chronic Poverty Research Group in Manchester (Green and Hulme 2005;Moore, 2005) nor did they follow the patterns of advanced marginality described by Wacquant for Chicago ghettos and French banlieu (Wacquant 1996). Instead there was a gradual improvement in living conditions in the older favelas vis-à-vis the city at large, while more recent migrants, who are settling in newly formed favelas (or clandestine subdivisions) in the West Zone, filled in the lower ranks of poverty.…”

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Globalization and the Urban Poor

Perlman¹

2010

The Poor Under Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa

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The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and inequality in cities of the 'global south'. Specifically it addresses the impact of globalization on marginalized communities-slums, squatter settlements and shantytowns-collectively called 'informal settlements'. This is a timely issue given that over the next 25 years virtually all of the population growth worldwide will be in the cities of developing countries largely concentrated in such settlements.The paper takes a critical look at current assumptions about globalization, urban poverty, and inequality, distinguishing between different constructs and aspects of globalization and separating causality from co-terminality. It questions how the informal sector would fare in the face of advanced capitalism and technological transformations, absent the global component.Using Brazil as an example the paper draws comparisons between the lives of the poor during the isolationist period of 'import substitution' and the military dictatorship and their current lives in the context of pervasive globalization of ideas, icons, and identities. The findings are based on a longitudinal panel study conducted in the favelas …/.

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From correlates and characteristics to causes: thinking about poverty from a chronic poverty perspective

Cited by 185 publications

References 22 publications

Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape?

Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape?

Chronic Poverty in Rural Ethiopia through the Lens of Life-histories

Globalization and the Urban Poor

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