Moving Out of Poverty: Volume 1
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility
Will be published approx. on 31. October 2007
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-0-8213-7111-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. Leading development practitioners and scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology, critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new frameworks and evidence from their own works.
Reviews / Votes
'The excellent papers in this volume should be read by economists who work on poverty dynamics in developing countries. They provide perspectives from other social science disciplines (and from economics) which are illuminating and instructive on methodology and on substance. Interdisciplinarity is key in advancing understanding of poverty dynamics. The papers in this volume show why, and how.' - Ravi Kanbur, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, Professor of Economics, Cornell University 'Narayan and Petesch have assembled a valuable collection of articles on how the intersection of opportunity structures and human agency shapes the landscape of global poverty. Authors from a variety of disciplines hone in on the critical question of how poor people in the global South can surmount their plight. In the tradition of Amartya Sen, the collection conveys an optimistic assessment of the power of individual and collective initiatives against entrenched structures--a perspective worth reflecting upon and arguing with.' - Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology, Princeton UniversityMore details
Series
Edition
2007
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
biography
Dimensions
Height: 23.4 cm
Width: 15.6 cm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8213-7111-4 (9780821371114)
Schweitzer Classification
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Deepa Narayan | Patti Petesch
Moving Out of Poverty: Volume 1
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility
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07/2007
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Persons
SHELTON H. DAVIS Senior Fellow, Center for Latin American Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
STEFAN DERCON Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford, UK; Member, European Development Network; Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK
T. SCARLETT EPSTEIN, OBE Retired Research Professor, University of Sussex, UK
ROBERT ERIKSON Professor of Sociology, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden
XAVIER GODINOT Director, Research and Training Institute of Mouvement International ATD Quart Monde (International Movement ATD Fourth World), France
ANTHONY HALL London School of Economics, UK
CLAUDE HEYBERGER International Movement ATD Fourth World
PATRICIA HEYBERGER International Movement ATD Fourth World
ANIRUDH KRISHNA Duke University, USA; Researcher, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, USA
BRIAN NOLAN Professor of Public Policy, School of Applied Social Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
JANICE E. PERLMAN President, Mega-Cities Project
JOSEPH S. SHAPIRO Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
CHARLES TILLY Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University, USA
MARCO UGARTE International Movement ATD Fourth World
ROSARIO UGARTE International Movement ATD Fourth World
STEFAN DERCON Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford, UK; Member, European Development Network; Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK
T. SCARLETT EPSTEIN, OBE Retired Research Professor, University of Sussex, UK
ROBERT ERIKSON Professor of Sociology, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden
XAVIER GODINOT Director, Research and Training Institute of Mouvement International ATD Quart Monde (International Movement ATD Fourth World), France
ANTHONY HALL London School of Economics, UK
CLAUDE HEYBERGER International Movement ATD Fourth World
PATRICIA HEYBERGER International Movement ATD Fourth World
ANIRUDH KRISHNA Duke University, USA; Researcher, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, USA
BRIAN NOLAN Professor of Public Policy, School of Applied Social Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
JANICE E. PERLMAN President, Mega-Cities Project
JOSEPH S. SHAPIRO Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
CHARLES TILLY Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University, USA
MARCO UGARTE International Movement ATD Fourth World
ROSARIO UGARTE International Movement ATD Fourth World
Content
Introduction and Overview; D.Narayan & P.Petesch SECTION I: MOBILITY ACROSS COUNTRIES AND STATES Poverty and the Politics of Exclusion; C.Tilly Poverty Mobility: A Review of Quantitative Methods and Evidence; S.Dercon & J.Shapiro Intragenerational Income Mobility: Poverty Dynamics in Industrial Societies; R.Erikson & B.Nolan Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in Three States of India (with additional evidence from Kenya, Uganda and Peru); A.Krishna SECTION II: INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MOBILITY Poverty, Caste and Migration in South India; S.Epstein Elusive Pathways Out of Poverty: Intra and Inter-generational mobility in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro; J.Perlman & S.Anthony Escaping Extreme Poverty: Family Monographs from Burkina Faso and Peru; X.Godinot, C.Heyberger, P.Heyberger, M.Ugarte & R.Ugarte SECTION III: MIGRATION, IDENTITY AND EMPOWERMENT Moving Away from Poverty: Migrant Remittances, Livelihoods and Development; A.Hall Migration, Remittances and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala; S.Davis