Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh (Phase II). A comparison between the National Child Labour Survey 1995-96 and 2002 …

Poverty has different and varying manifestations. In fact, Hulme et al (2001) proposes a five-tiered categorisation of … poverty. This identifies the always poor, usually poor, churning poor, occasionally poor and never poor. The first two … associated with transition in the poverty status of a household should help us to understand the processes that create or erode …

The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made in the substantial … literature on poverty in India. Determination of poverty as chronic or temporary requires that the same households be tracked … the limited panel data based literature on chronic poverty in India as also the literature on other countries. It then …

This background paper provides some preliminary estimates of the global incidence of chronic poverty for the Chronic … Poverty Report 2004-05. We define chronic poverty as remaining below the poverty line for at least five years, with welfare … measured in expenditure or income terms. Using the latest estimates on the magnitude of static dollar a day poverty available …

This paper summarises the recent quantitative and qualitative evidence on urban poverty in Ethiopia. The analysis of … poverty dynamics is difficult and has been neglected, hence most of the studies reviewed here focus on urban poverty at a … particular point in time. The paper also attempts to discuss in some detail what little evidence exists on urban chronic poverty …