Overview

This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic and social mobility, the ten chapters take the reader on compelling journeys of multigenerational accounts of three villages in Kanartaka, India; twelve years in the life of a street child in Burkina Faso; a shorter term comparative examination of country-wide experiences with mobility in rich nations; and much more. The authors - 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.

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'The excellent papers in this volume should be read by economists who work on poverty dynamics in developing countries. They provide perspectives from other social science disciplines (and from economics) which are illuminating and instructive on methodology and on substance. Interdisciplinarity is key in advancing understanding of poverty dynamics. The papers in this volume show why, and how.' - Ravi Kanbur, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Economics, Cornell University, USA

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DEEPA NARAYAN is Senior Adviser in the Office of the Vice President of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network at the World Bank, USA. She is currently leading the 15-country study entitled 'Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy and Growth from the Bottom Up', aimed at finding out how people create wealth to escape poverty. She was team leader for the multicountry Voices of the Poor project and is lead author of the three-volume series Voices of the Poor. Her recent edited volumes include Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Sourcebook; Measurin

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