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Author:   Tony Addison (, Professor of Development Studies, University of Manchester & Executive Director, Brooks World Poverty Institute) ,  David Hulme (, Professor of Development Studies, University of Manchester) ,  Ravi Kanbur (, T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics, Cornell University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.719kg
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9780199557547

ISBN 10:   0199557543
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   22 January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I: Introduction 1: Tony Addison, David Hulme, and Ravi Kanbur: Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective Part II: Poverty Dynamics: Poverty Measurement and Assessment 2: Cesar Calvo and Stefan Dercon: Chronic Poverty and All That: The Measurement of Poverty Over Time 3: James E. Foster: A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures 4: Isabel Günther and Stephan Klasen: Measuring Chronic Non-Income Poverty 5: Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton: The Construction of an Asset Index Measuring Asset Accumulation in Ecuador 6: Michael R. Carter and Munenobu Ikegami: Looking Forward: Theory-Based Measures of Chronic Poverty and Vulnerability 7: Peter Davis: Exploring Poverty Dynamics from Life History Interviews in Bangladesh 8: Anirudh Krishna: Subjective Assessments, Participatory Methods and Poverty Dynamics: The Stages of Progress Method Part III: Explanatory Frameworks for Understanding Poverty Dynamics 9: John Harriss: Bringing Politics Back into Poverty Analysis: Why Understanding of Social Relations Matters More for Policy on Chronic Poverty than Measurement 10: Andries du Toit: Poverty Measurement Blues: Beyond 'Q-Squared' Approaches to Understanding Chronic Poverty in South Africa 11: S. R. Osmani: When Endowments and Opportunities Don't Match: Understanding Chronic Poverty 12: Agnes Quisumbing: Investments, Bequeaths, and Public Policy: Intergenerational Asset Transfers and the Escape From Poverty 13: Jo Boyden and Elizabeth Cooper: Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children Up To the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty? 14: Maia Green: The Social Distribution of Sanctioned Harm: Thinking Through Chronic Poverty, Durable Poverty and Destitution 15: Michael Woolcock: Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigour and Relevance of Social Theory

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Tony Addison is Executive Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) University of Manchester, Associate Director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), and Professor of Development Studies, University of Manchester. He is currently working on chronic poverty, post-conflict reconstruction and development finance. David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Manchester and Associate Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre. His research interests include rural development; poverty analysis and poverty reduction strategies; finance for the poor and sociology of development. At present he is a senior research fellow with the Leverhulme Trust. Ravi Kanbur is T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He has held various positions at the World Bank and has also served as Director of the World Bank's World Development Report.

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