conceptualisation and measurement of chronic poverty. This also implies that the problem of targeting social protection programmes is … arrangement during relatively short periods of time. However, using data from Indonesia, this study finds that household … composition change is not a major cause of chronic poverty. Similarly, it finds no evidence that households change their …

attainment and health in Indonesia, and compare it with the effect of chronic poverty. We also investigate whether there are any … chronic poverty. Lastly, chronically poor orphans do not suffer adverse effects beyond the effects of chronic poverty …

We estimate intergenerational poverty persistence in Indonesia using a panel dataset. This is the first such study done … issues that plague earnings data in developing countries, we use chronic poverty status as a long-term parental welfare … measure. We find substantial intergenerational mobility away from poverty among children from poor households. However, we …

HIV/AIDS is both a cause and a symptom of chronic poverty and requires new and innovative policy instruments and … – for tackling chronic poverty among people living with HIV/AIDS …

Primary education is widely perceived to have a key role in reducing poverty and is positively associated with … to breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, this review argues that the processes by which … education influences poverty are insufficiently understood, particularly with respect to intergenerational poverty transmission …

formal schooling. This paper explores the efforts of government to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty … intervention, focusing on its targeting practices. It concludes that the failure of the programme to significantly increase …

This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan …–05 with minimal attrition. The incidence of poverty increased sharply over this time, as the percentage of households entering … poverty was nearly three times higher than the percentage of households escaping into poverty. Over a quarter of panel …

This paper considers the impact of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among … unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of these programmes. The paper finds that non-contributory pensions have a … measurable and significant impact upon poverty reduction and poverty prevention in the two countries studied …

indicators of the MDGs (monetary poverty, child malnutrition, non-enrolment in primary school, and under-five mortality) for the …

Although economic reform has brought remarkable progress in poverty reduction in Vietnam, the scale and depth of ethnic … minority poverty in Vietnam presents one of the major challenges to achieving the targets for poverty reduction set out in the …