In recognizing that poverty is 'multi-dimensional,' contemporary policy discourses – drawing on scholarship on … significantly on them, coherent theories of and useful policy responses to chronic poverty require attention to three additional …, (b) explain how and why poverty persists as part of broader processes of economic prosperity and social change, (c …

tries to identify chronic poverty at the district level by using multidimensional indicators that reflect persistent …

Despite the renewed commitment over the past 15 years to poverty reduction as the core objective of international … strategies (centred around economic growth and human development) that have been adopted to achieve poverty reduction, as well as … our very conception and understanding of poverty. While perspectives on poverty have evolved significantly over this …

We explore how to measure poverty over time, by focusing on trajectories of poverty rather than poverty at a particular … characterization of desirable properties for measuring poverty across these spells, as well as an explicit discussion of three issues … vulnerability, defined as the threat of poverty over time, that incorporates risk. An application to data from Ethiopia shows that …

The Stages-of-Progress methodology helps examine households' movements out of poverty and into poverty. More important …

In this paper we explore the implications of using two different methodological approaches to study poverty dynamics in … methods lead to very different assessments of socio-economic mobility, in particular movements into and out of poverty. We … discuss the reasons why qualitative and quantitative assessments of poverty dynamics for the same households differ and …

Conventional poverty analysis is ill-equipped to answer questions concerning the future persistence of observed poverty … poverty traps to derive estimable chronic poverty measures. These measures in turn provide a conceptual foundation for … understanding and measuring vulnerability. The analysis identifies two sorts of chronic poverty. The first type (intrinsic chronic …

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

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 …

Mainstream poverty resear ... …