Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya experience chronic poverty and often express the belief that formal education … may be an alternative route out of poverty. The roles of parental wealth, livestock inheritance and formal education in … poverty through employment and gains in skills and knowledge. Quantitative analyses indicate that parental wealth and primary …

of chronic poverty and vulnerability. In this paper we seek empirically and theoretically to understand the dynamics of … does chronic poverty foster patterns of adverse incorporation in GPNs for poor workers and producers? Secondly, to what … workers are incorporated, be said to produce and reproduce chronic poverty? We focus here on the worst forms of adverse …

done by CPRC in India. We do not yet have a map of chronic poverty in India, but have an approximate idea of numbers and … precise data about the chronically poor in India. Poverty alleviation programmes in India have tried four approaches: citizen …

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 …

This paper provides an update of the changes that Bangladesh has undergone in terms of its poverty and social … achieved notable progress in terms of poverty and social indicators over the past one and half decades. There are, however …

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 …