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Chronic Poverty and Education : A Review of Literature

Rose, Pauline M.; Dyer, Caroline - 2014

Primary education is widely perceived to have a key role in reducing poverty and is positively associated with development-related outcomes such as improving productivity. For girls in particular, it is highly correlated with improvements in health and reductions in fertility, infant mortality...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa - A Select Annotated Bibliography with Special Reference to Irreversibilities Associated with Poor Nutrition, Health...

Smith, Briony; Moore, Karen - 2014

This annotated bibliography forms part of CPRC's Phase 3 foundational research theme Empirical Methods for Studying Intergenerational Transmissions of Poverty (IGT), which attempts to identify the extent to which such processes occur, the nature and reversibility of such processes in different...

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Chronic Poverty and the Environment : A Vulnerability Perspective

Scott, Lucy - 2013

The relationships between poverty and the environment are highly contested, debated and researched. The sustainable development agenda, advocated at the 1987 World Commission on Environment and Development, brings these relationships to the fore. Environmental sustainability, alongside social...

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Questioning the Power of Resilience : Are Children Up to the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty?

Cooper, Elizabeth; Boyden, Jo - 2013

Resilience is an increasingly popular term employed in child development and international development discourse. Applied to childhood poverty, poverty over the life course and the intergenerational transmission of poverty, the resilience of boys and girls may be considered as serving as a...

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Methodology for Identifying the Poorest at Local Level

Sen, Binayak - 2011

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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Do Child Labourers Come from the Poorest?

Ali, Zulfiqar - 2011

also been made between macro statistics and micro survey in this respect. Data used in this paper are obtained from the … National Child Labour Survey 2002-03 as well as the 64-village census plus survey 2005 conducted under the Programme for … Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh (Phase II). A comparison between the National Child Labour Survey 1995-96 and 2002 …

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Unfavourable Environment and Chronic Poverty

Shahabuddin, Quazi - 2011

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 categories are chronically poor, the next two transitory...

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Tribal Population and Chronic Poverty in Orissa : A Note on North-South Divide

Panigrahi, Nilakantha - 2011

Orissa has a varied physiography on account of a wide range of physical features and agro-ecological conditions. These determine to a large extent the human geography on the basis of ‘carrying capacity' of land. The state is usually divided into four agro-climatic zones: Northern Plateau;...

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Issues in Chronic Poverty : Panel Data Based Analysis

Mehta, Aasha Kapur - 2011

The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made in the substantial literature on poverty in India. Determination of poverty as chronic or temporary requires that the same households be tracked over time through a panel data set and/or use of life...

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Tribal Population and Chronic Poverty in Orissa : A Note on the North-South Divide

Panigrahi, Nilakantha - 2011

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