This paper investigates whether monetary and non-monetary indicators tell the same story about chronic poverty using a … find that monetary poverty is less persistent than malnutrition among adults and stunting among children (although there is … some evidence of catch-up among stunted children). Monetary poverty is also found to be less persistent than primary and …

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 …

The capability approach defines poverty as a deprivation of capabilities, as a lack of multiple freedoms people value … and have reason to value. Chronic poverty focuses attention on that subset of poor persons whose capability deprivations … endure across time. But how should the dimensions of chronic poverty be selected? This question is complex because the …

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 …

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 …

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dominance of the econometric imaginary in present-day development and poverty studies. It argues that measurement …This paper explores the challenge of understanding chronic and structural poverty in South Africa, and questions the …-based, econometric approaches to chronic poverty are dependent upon mystifying narratives about the nature of poverty and how it can be …

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 …