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Discussions among the poor: Exploring poverty dynamics with focus groups in Bangladesh

Peter Davis (2007)

Working Paper No. 84

This paper presents findings from 116 focus group discussions which took place in eleven districts in Bangladesh in mid-2006. It forms the first part of three phases of research in an integrated qualitative and quantitative study into poverty dynamics currently being undertaken by the author and...

The politics behind the non-contributory old age social pensions in Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa

Larissa Pelham (2007)

Working Paper No. 83

Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Botswana comprise a cluster of southern African countries which provide monthly non-contributory benefits to their elderly citizens. This paper seeks to understand the differing political and socio-economic conditions in which the three pensions evolved and...

Poverty traps and structural poverty in South Africa. Reassessing the evidence from Kwazulu-Natal

Julian May and Ingrid Woolard (2007)

Working Paper No. 82

Using three waves of the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS), panel data collected in South Africa’s most populous province between 1993 and 2004, this paper re-investigates patterns of chronic and structural poverty previously identified from the first two waves. The 2004 wave...

Adverse incorporation, social exclusion and chronic poverty

Sam Hickey and Andries du Toit (2007)

Working Paper No. 81

There are a number of compelling reasons to focus on the ways in which the processes and relations of adverse incorporation and social exclusion (AISE) underpin chronic poverty. In particular, AISE research draws attention to the causal processes that lead poverty to persist, and to the politics...

Understanding and explaining chronic poverty - An evolving framework for Phase III of CPRC's research

Andrew Shepherd (2007)

Working Paper No. 80

In order to explain chronic poverty and determine how best to interrupt it, a clear and coherent conceptual framework is necessary. The framework presented in this paper has been developed based on work undertaken both by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) during its first two phases...

Measuring chronic non-income poverty

Isabel Gunther and Stephan Klasen (2007)

Working Paper No. 79

Based on Amartya Sen’s groundbreaking work on capabilities and functionings, static poverty measures have long used non-income indicators. In contrast, measures of poverty dynamics, including chronic poverty, have in general conceptualized poverty only in an income dimension. Hence, this...

When endowments and opportunities don't match: Understanding chronic poverty

S. R. Osmani (2007)

Working Paper No. 78

Attempts to understand the causes of chronic poverty have largely centred on the concept of the poverty trap. In this perspective, the main focus is on the paucity of initial wealth or endowments, which under certain plausible conditions can create a trap from which a poor person will find it hard...

Bringing politics back into poverty analysis: Why understanding social relations matters more for policy on chronic poverty than measurement

John Harriss (2007)

Working Paper No. 77

Mainstream poverty research - even after experts had generally accepted the need for a multidimensional view of poverty that goes beyond income/consumption measures to take account of holdings of assets and hence of longer run security (see Chambers 1988, 1992) - has generally failed to address the...

Does vulnerability create poverty traps?

Armando Barrientos (2007)

Working Paper No. 76

The paper discusses whether vulnerability generates poverty traps. It contains a review of models of poverty traps and a discussion of whether these can accommodate vulnerability; it also includes a discussion of the empirical evidence available in support of these models and a discussion of their...

The intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries

Stephen Jenkins with Thomas Siedler (2007)

Working Paper No. 75

This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty (or ‘income’) during childhood and later-life...

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