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 paper is part of a stream of work for the Second Chronic Poverty Report (CPR2) on social change, policy and … chronic poverty. It reviews the available literature to attempt to draw lessons on how anti-discrimination policies can help … reduce chronic poverty, and what the limits to an anti-discrimination focus are in combating poverty …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Mainstream poverty resear ... …