Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Book

List of Figures xiii

List of Tables xiv

List of Contributors xvi

Part I Introduction

1 Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective Tony Addison David Hulme Ravi Kanbur 3

Part II Poverty Dynamics: Poverty Measurement and Assessment

2 Chronic Poverty and All That: The Measurement of Poverty Over Time Cesar Calvo Stefan Dercon 29

4 Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty Isabel Gunther Stephan Klasen 77

5 The Construction of an Asset Index: Measuring Asset Accumulation in Ecuador Caroline Moser Andrew Felton 102

6 Looking Forward: Theory-Based Measures of Chronic Poverty and Vulnerability Michael R. Carter Munenobu Ikegami 128

7 Poverty in Time: Exploring Poverty Dynamics from Life History Interviews in Bangladesh Peter Davis 154

8 Subjective Assessments, Participatory Methods, and Poverty Dynamics: The Stages of Progress Method Anirudh Krishna 183

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 John Harriss 205

10 Poverty Measurement Blues: Beyond 'Q-Squared' Approaches to Understanding Chronic Poverty in South Africa Andries du Toit 225

11 When Endowments and Opportunities Don't Match: Understanding Chronic Poverty S. R. Osmani 247

12 Investments, Bequests, and Public Policy: Intergenerational Transfers and the Escape from Poverty Agnes R. Quisumbing 267

13 Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children up to the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty? Jo Boyden Elizabeth Cooper 289

14 The SocialDistribution of Sanctioned Harm: Thinking through Chronic Poverty, Durable Poverty, and Destitution Maia Green 309

15 Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigour and Relevance of Social Theory Michael Woolcock 328

Index 349