Chronic Poverty - Concepts, Causes and Policy (Hardcover)

Based on over a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume analyses the challenges to be met if global extreme poverty is to be eradicated. Building on case studies from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Uganda, it includes material on poverty dynamics, the inter-generational transmission of poverty, the importance of building assets and reducing vulnerability, the critical nature of conflict as a cause of impoverishment and chronic poverty, and new thinking about the close relationship between social exclusion and adverse incorporation. Current policy does not adequately support pathways out of poverty: neither the positives of getting a good job, or building assets, nor the negatives of preventing setbacks along the way. While social protection is increasingly on the policy agenda by way of preventing extreme setbacks, the pro-poorest economic growth and labour market policies, the rounded approach to providing enough education to poor children, all need much greater policy makers' attention. Policy makers also need to consider the norms which govern social groups and inter-group social relationships which determine how people make use of assets and capabilities, and how to change those norms where they are problematic for socio-economic mobility, or lead to conflict.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Rethinking International Development series
Release date:	May 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	A. Shepherd • J. Brunt
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	307
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-57934-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > Aid & relief programmes
LSN:	0-230-57934-5
Barcode:	9780230579347

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