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policy designed to address poverty. The paper then reviews recent work on processes governing the use of, and access to …
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transferred from one generation to another. As such, policy initiatives concerning the intergenerational transmission of poverty … (IGT poverty) would do well to attend to how inheritance systems are governed, and particularly which considerations affect … policy that address issues of inheritance and IGT poverty. It is organised into three main sections: the first outlines what …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This article argues that the extreme poor warrant specific analytical and policy focus. It attempts to identify the extreme poor in rural Bangladesh by devising sensitive targeting indicators that are effective in minimising leakage to the non-poor while ensuring broad coverage of the target...
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Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh (Phase II). A comparison between the National Child Labour Survey 1995-96 and 2002 …
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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 …
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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 …
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