Development trustees have increasingly sought to challenge chronic poverty by promoting citizenship amongst poor people … suggest that citizenship-based strategies rarely alter the underlying basis of poverty. However, our evidence also offers some … support to those optimists who suggest that progressive moves towards poverty reduction and citizenship formation have become …

content and structure of the document.Second, as the internet is now an established resource for poverty research, a concise … selection of useful websites is included: Poverty Research Online. It includes a specific section on spatial aspects of poverty ….Third, the Chronic Poverty Toolbox (Section 1) contains specific literature on chronic poverty, divided into four sub …

emphasis on the responsibility of communities to overcome the often structural problems of poverty and exclusion. Such …

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 and political economy of these processes and associated … relationships over time. Specific dimensions of AISE are explored in relation to chronic poverty – namely political, economic, socio …