Poverty Dynamics

PART I: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective ; PART II: POVERTY DYNAMICS: POVERTY MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT ; 2. Chronic Poverty and All That: The Measurement of Poverty Over Time ; 3. A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures ; 4. Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty ; 5. The Construction of an Asset Index Measuring Asset Accumulation in Ecuador ; 6. Looking Forward: Theory-Based Measures of Chronic Poverty and Vulnerability ; 7. Exploring Poverty Dynamics from Life History Interviews in Bangladesh ; 8. Subjective Assessments, Participatory Methods and Poverty Dynamics: The Stages of Progress Method ; PART III: EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORKS FOR UNDERSTANDING POVERTY DYNAMICS ; 9. Bringing Politics Back into Poverty Analysis: Why Understanding of Social Relations Matters More for Policy on Chronic Poverty than Measurement ; 10. Poverty Measurement Blues: Beyond 'Q-Squared' Approaches to Understanding Chronic Poverty in South Africa ; 11. When Endowments and Opportunities Don't Match: Understanding Chronic Poverty ; 12. Investments, Bequeaths, and Public Policy: Intergenerational Asset Transfers and the Escape From Poverty ; 13. Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children Up To the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty? ; 14. The Social Distribution of Sanctioned Harm: Thinking Through Chronic Poverty, Durable Poverty and Destitution ; 15. Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigour and Relevance of Social Theory