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Understanding and Reducing Persistent Poverty in Africa

Editat de Christopher B. Barrett, Peter Little, Michael Carter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 dec 2007
Prior work has shown that there is a significant amount of turnover amongst the African poor as households exit and enter poverty. Some of this mobility can be attributed to regular movement back and forth in response to exogenous variability in climate, prices, health, etc. ('churning'). Other crossings of the poverty line reflect permanent shifts in long-term well-being associated with gains or losses of productive assets or permanent changes in asset productivity due, for example, to adoption of improved technologies or access to new, higher-value markets. Distinguishing true structural mobility from simple churning is important because it clarifies the factors that facilitate such important structural change. Conversely, it also helps identify the constraints that may leave other households caught in a trap of persistent, structural poverty.
The papers in this book help to distinguish the types of poverty and to deepen understanding of the structural features and constraints that create poverty traps. Such an understanding allows communities, local governments and donors to take proactive, effective steps to combat persistent poverty in Africa.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415463898
ISBN-10: 0415463890
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Understanding and Reducing Persistent Poverty in Africa: Introduction to a Special Issue  Christopher B. BarrettMichael R. Carter & Peter D. Little  2. The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: An Asset-Based Approach  Michael R. Carter & Christopher B. Barrett  3. ‘Moving in Place’: Drought and Poverty Dynamics in South Wollo, Ethiopia  Peter D. Little, M. Priscilla Stone, Tewodaj Mogues, A. Peter Castro & Workneh Negatu  4. Exploring Poverty Traps and Social Exclusion in South Africa Using Qualitative and Quantitative Data  Michelle Adato, Michael R. Carter & Julian May  5. Welfare Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar  Christopher B. Barrett, Paswel Phiri Marenya, John McPeak, Bart Minten, Festus Murithi, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Frank Place, Jean Claude Randrianarisoa, Jhon Rasambainarivo & Justine Wangila  6. Persistent Poverty in North East Ghana Ann Whitehead  7. Shocks and their Consequences Across and Within Households in Rural Zimbabwe  John Hoddinott  8. Rural Income and Poverty in a Time of Radical Change in Malawi  Pauline E. Peters  9. Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in 36 Villages of Central and Western Uganda  Anirudh Krishna, Daniel Lumonya, Milissa Markiewicz, Firminus Mugumya, Agatha Kafuko & Jonah Wegoye

Notă biografică

Barrett, Christopher B.; Little, Peter; Carter, Michael

Descriere

This book distinguishes the types of poverty and deepens readers understanding of the structural features and constraints that create poverty traps. This allows communities, local governments and donors to take proactive, effective steps to combat persistent poverty in Africa.