Moving Out of Poverty: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility

Herausgeber: Narayan, Deepa; Petesch, Patti

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. Leading development practitioners and scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology, critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new frameworks and evidence from their own works.

Produktdetails

• Moving Out of Poverty Nr.1
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK / World Bank Publications
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 168mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780821371114
• ISBN-10: 0821371118
• Artikelnr.: 22963262

Autorenporträt

SHELTON H. DAVIS Senior Fellow, Center for Latin American Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA STEFAN DERCON Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford, UK; Member, European Development Network; Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK T. SCARLETT EPSTEIN, OBE Retired Research Professor, University of Sussex, UK ROBERT ERIKSON Professor of Sociology, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden XAVIER GODINOT Director, Research and Training Institute of Mouvement International ATD Quart Monde (International Movement ATD Fourth World), France ANTHONY HALL London School of Economics, UK CLAUDE HEYBERGER International Movement ATD Fourth World PATRICIA HEYBERGER International Movement ATD Fourth World ANIRUDH KRISHNA Duke University, USA; Researcher, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, USA BRIAN NOLAN Professor of Public Policy, School of Applied Social Science, University College Dublin, Ireland JANICE E. PERLMAN President, Mega-Cities Project JOSEPH S. SHAPIRO Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA CHARLES TILLY Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University, USA MARCO UGARTE International Movement ATD Fourth World ROSARIO UGARTE International Movement ATD Fourth World

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and Overview; D.Narayan & P.Petesch SECTION I: MOBILITY ACROSS
COUNTRIES AND STATES Poverty and the Politics of Exclusion; C.Tilly Poverty
Mobility: A Review of Quantitative Methods and Evidence; S.Dercon &
J.Shapiro Intragenerational Income Mobility: Poverty Dynamics in Industrial
Societies; R.Erikson & B.Nolan Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in Three
States of India (with additional evidence from Kenya, Uganda and Peru);
A.Krishna SECTION II: INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MOBILITY Poverty,
Caste and Migration in South India; S.Epstein Elusive Pathways Out of
Poverty: Intra and Inter-generational mobility in the favelas of Rio de
Janeiro; J.Perlman & S.Anthony Escaping Extreme Poverty: Family Monographs
from Burkina Faso and Peru; X.Godinot, C.Heyberger, P.Heyberger, M.Ugarte &
R.Ugarte SECTION III: MIGRATION, IDENTITY AND EMPOWERMENT Moving Away from
Poverty: Migrant Remittances, Livelihoods and Development; A.Hall
Migration, Remittances and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala; S.Davis