
Why Poverty Persists
Poverty Dynamics in Asia and Africa
Bob Baulch(Editor)
Edward Elgar Publishing
Published on 29. July 2011
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-85793-024-8 (ISBN)
Description
This edited book analyzes what traps people in chronic poverty, and what allows them to escape from it, using long-term panel surveys from six Asian and African countries. The distinguishing feature of these studies, which were commissioned by the Chronic Poverty Research Center, is they span longer periods or have more survey waves than most developing country panels. This allows a detailed account of the maintainers of chronic poverty and drivers of poverty dynamics. Many of the studies (from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa and Vietnam) are written by leading development economists, and all pay careful attention to the difficult issues of attrition, measurement error and tracking. The book's comparative perspective highlights the common factors which cause people to fall into chronic poverty and allow them to break-free from it. A number of promising policies and interventions for reducing chronic poverty are identified.
This up-to-date book will be an excellent resource for international development agencies, academics specializing in development economics and development studies, and researchers in international NGOs. Graduate students of development economics and development studies will also find much to interest them.
Contributors include: B. Baulch, S.D. Bhatta, V.H. Dat, S. Dercon, D. Hulme, H.R. Lohano, J. May, C. Porter, A. Quisumbing, S. Sharma, I. Woolard
This up-to-date book will be an excellent resource for international development agencies, academics specializing in development economics and development studies, and researchers in international NGOs. Graduate students of development economics and development studies will also find much to interest them.
Contributors include: B. Baulch, S.D. Bhatta, V.H. Dat, S. Dercon, D. Hulme, H.R. Lohano, J. May, C. Porter, A. Quisumbing, S. Sharma, I. Woolard
Reviews / Votes
'. . . this volume's great merits - namely, contributing to the policy dialogue with evidence from a collection of country studies and guiding all those interested in analyzing poverty dynamics on the method for doing so. It is not surprising that no previous book has ever achieved this contribution, because only recently, longitudinal micro-level panel data has become available for exploring poverty dynamics. All efforts expended to collect such data and provide an appropriate analysis based on it should be respected, and it is hoped that further efforts to do so will produce a sequel to this fascinating and readable volume.' -- Yuya Kudo, The Developing Economies 'Ten years ago Bob Baulch and John Hoddinott drew our attention to the phenomenon of 'poverty dynamics' - an insight into the unpredictability of poor people's livelihoods that had profound implications for poverty thinking and policy, forcing a rethink of static conceptualisations and measurement and raising challenges for targeting anti-poverty programmes. In this new volume, Baulch and colleagues enrich this understanding with rigorous analysis of panel datasets from six countries in Africa and Asia. Most impressively, this illuminating collection by technical microeconometricians is equally accessible to non-technical readers, which effectively communicates its important messages to development policy-makers and practitioners.' -- Stephen Devereux, University of Sussex, UK 'Why Poverty Persists significantly advances our understanding of the temporal dimensions of poverty. Its judicious mix of new evidence and improved methods offers new insights into why some people remain mired in poverty and the forces that keep them there. All those interested in combating poverty - academics, donors and those working in the non-governmental organizations - will learn from the carefully constructed African and Asian case studies presented.' -- John Hoddinott, International Food Policy Research InstituteMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85793-024-8 (9780857930248)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Edited by Bob Baulch, Chronic Poverty Research Centre
Content
Contents:
Foreword
David Hulme
1. Overview: Poverty Dynamics and Persistence in Asia and Africa
Bob Baulch
2. Poverty Transitions, Shocks and Consumption in Rural Bangladesh, 1996-97 to 2006-07
Agnes R. Quisumbing
3. A Poor Life? Chronic Poverty and Downward Mobility in Rural Ethiopia, 1994 to 2004
Stefan Dercon and Catherine Porter
4. The Determinants and Consequences of Chronic and Transient Poverty in Nepal, 1995-96 to 2003-04
Saurav Dev Bhatta and Suman K. Sharma
5. Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sindh, Pakistan, 1987-88 to 2004-05
Hari Ram Lohano
6. Poverty Traps and Structural Poverty in South Africa: Reassessing the Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, 1993 to 2004
Julian May, Ingrid Woolard and Bob Baulch
7. Poverty Dynamics in Vietnam, 2002 to 2006
Bob Baulch and Vu Hoang Dat
8. Chronic Poverty: What is to be Done?
Bob Baulch
Index
Foreword
David Hulme
1. Overview: Poverty Dynamics and Persistence in Asia and Africa
Bob Baulch
2. Poverty Transitions, Shocks and Consumption in Rural Bangladesh, 1996-97 to 2006-07
Agnes R. Quisumbing
3. A Poor Life? Chronic Poverty and Downward Mobility in Rural Ethiopia, 1994 to 2004
Stefan Dercon and Catherine Porter
4. The Determinants and Consequences of Chronic and Transient Poverty in Nepal, 1995-96 to 2003-04
Saurav Dev Bhatta and Suman K. Sharma
5. Poverty Dynamics in Rural Sindh, Pakistan, 1987-88 to 2004-05
Hari Ram Lohano
6. Poverty Traps and Structural Poverty in South Africa: Reassessing the Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, 1993 to 2004
Julian May, Ingrid Woolard and Bob Baulch
7. Poverty Dynamics in Vietnam, 2002 to 2006
Bob Baulch and Vu Hoang Dat
8. Chronic Poverty: What is to be Done?
Bob Baulch
Index