Economic Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Developing Countries

by Baulch; Bob

• ISBN13: 9780714651316
• ISBN10: 0714651311
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

It is commonly believed that poverty in developing countries is a chronic structural phenomenon. Evidence from the small number of surveys conducted shows that many households move from poverty to wealth and back from one year to the next. This collection assembles six country studies which use household panel data to examine the issue of poverty. One set - based on panel data from China, Ethiopia, Pakistan and South Africa - looks at short-run poverty dynamics. A second set, drawing on data from Chile and Zimbabwe examines determinants of long-term economic mobility over periods of 14 years or more.

Table of Contents

Economic Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Developing Countries	1	(25)
Bob Baulch
John Hoddinott
Vulnerability, Seasonality and Poverty in Ethiopia	25	(29)
Stefan Dercon
Pramila Krishnan
Social Capital and Household Welfare in South Africa, 1993--98	54	(28)
John Maluccio
Lawrence Haddad
Julian May
Is Transient Poverty Different? Evidence for Rural China	82	(18)
Jyotsna Jalan
Martin Ravallion
Simulating the Impact of Policy Upon Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Rural Pakistan	100	(31)
Neil McCulloch
Bob Baulch
Revisiting Forever Gained: Income Dynamics in the Resettlement Areas of Zimbabwe, 1983--96	131	(24)
Jan Willem Gunning
John Hoddinott
Bill Kinsey
Trudy Owens
Mixed Fortunes: A Study of Poverty Mobility among Small Farm Households in Chile, 1968--86	155	(26)
Christopher D. Scott
Index	181