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Chronic poverty
About: Chronic poverty is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1422 publications have been published within this topic receiving 42950 citations.
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TL;DR: Two factors with available worldwide data—the prevalence of early childhood stunting and the number of people living in absolute poverty—are identified as indicators of poor development and show that both indicators are closely associated with poor cognitive and educational performance in children.
2,942 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess how much India's poor shared in the country's economic growth, taking into account its urban-rural and output composition, and find that output growth in the primary and tertiary sectors reduced poverty in both urban and rural areas but that secondary sector growth did not reduce poverty in either.
Abstract: Using a new series of consistent, consumption-based poverty measures spanning forty years, the author assess how much India's poor shared in the country's economic growth, taking into account its urban-rural and output composition. Rural consumption growth reduced poverty in both rural and urban areas. Urban growth brought some benefits to the urban poor, but had no impact on rural poverty. And rural-to-urban population shifts had no significant impact on poverty. Decomposing growth by output sectors, we found that output growth in the primary and tertiary sectors reduced poverty in both urban and rural areas but that secondary sector growth did not reduce poverty in either.
1,936 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature on poor households' use of risk management and risk-coping strategies is presented, which identifies the constraints on their effectiveness and discusses policy options.
Abstract: Poor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they handle with risk-management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal insurance mechanisms. Despite these mechanisms, however, vulnerability to poverty linked to risk remains high. This article reviews the literature on poor households use of risk-management and risk-coping strategies. It identifies the constraints on their effectiveness and discusses policy options. It shows that risk and lumpiness limit the opportunities to use assets as insurance, that entry constraints limit the usefulness of income diversification, and that informal risk-sharing provides only limited protection, leaving some of the poor exposed to very severe negative shocks. Public safety nets are likely to be beneficial, but their impact is sometimes limited, and they may have negative externalities on households that are not covered. Collecting more information on households vulnerability to poverty through both quantitative and qualitative methods can help inform policy.
1,193 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a meaning for the term chronic poverty and explore the concepts of poverty, vulnerability and poverty dynamics that underpin this meaning, and review who is chronically poor, why they stay poor and what is known about policies to reduce chronic poverty.
833 citations
TL;DR: The authors provided an introduction to this special issue of The Journal of Development Studies on economic mobility and poverty dynamics in developing countries in addition to providing a conceptual framework, it outlines how the contributions fit into the extant literature and drew out the policy implications of these regularities.
Abstract: This study provides an introduction to this special issue of The Journal of Development Studies on economic mobility and poverty dynamics in developing countries In addition to providing a conceptual framework, it outlines how the contributions fit into the extant literature A series of regularities emerge across these studies The poor consist of those who are always poor — poor at all dates — and those who move in and out of poverty, with the latter group tending to be strikingly large Such movements in and out of poverty are apparent when looking at poverty in either absolute or relative terms Changes in returns to endowments can be a potent source of increased incomes Finally, seemingly transitory shocks can have long‐term consequences The study concludes by drawing out the policy implications of these regularities
702 citations