This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … currently above the poverty line is highly vulnerable to poverty in the future. The study finds that agricultural households or …

Attempts to understand the causes of chronic poverty have largely centred on the concept of the poverty trap. In this … useful in both understanding the causes of chronic poverty and looking for its solution. Instead of focusing on the level or … endowments. The crucial insight offered by this perspective is that chronic poverty can arise not just from low level of …

Based on Amartya Sen's groundbreaking work on capabilities and functionings, static poverty measures have long used non …-income indicators. In contrast, measures of poverty dynamics, including chronic poverty, have in general conceptualized poverty only in … limitations of analysing chronic poverty from a non-income perspective. Second, it proposes methods to empirically measure chronic …

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 …

women's lives can also reinforce their poverty status and that of their offspring, as well as influencing their movement … into or out of poverty. In many cases, overlapping experiences of deprivation, foregone human development opportunities and … abuse or exploitation perpetuate and intensify poverty for girls and young women over the life-course.Recently – in part …

intergenerational transmission of poverty, provides empirical evidence on key aspects of intergenerational transfers, and discusses the … accumulation and transfer of wealth to the next generation, bearing in mind the goals of reducing both poverty and inequality in …

a household. What detail is lost if we use the household as our main unit of analysis in the Chronic Poverty Research …

This paper analyses the dynamics of the poverty of India's Scheduled Castes and Tribes, and how government policies … designed to reduce their poverty have fared …

incidence, distribution and trends of disability, let alone the extent of disabled people's poverty; the paper begins with a … impairment, disability and poverty, the author sketches out a 'vicious cycle of chronic poverty and disability'. The paper moves …, and disabled people's organisations to mitigate or reduce chronic poverty among disabled people. Case studies of the …