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Poverty Dynamics (poverty + dynamics)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting60%
Humanities and Social Sciences40%

Selected Abstracts

Fixing the Hole in the Bucket: Household Poverty Dynamics in the Peruvian Andes

DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 5 2006
Anirudh Krishna
ABSTRACT Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty will require simultaneous action on two separate fronts: helping poor people escape from poverty, and stemming the flow of people into poverty. This article examines forty Peruvian communities, and finds that descents into poverty have occurred alongside escapes in every one of them. Escape and descent are asymmetric in terms of reasons: while one set of reasons is responsible for escapes from poverty, another and different set of reasons is associated with descent. Making progress in poverty reduction will require measures to accelerate escapes whilst at the same time slowing down descents. The article looks at the different policies which will be required to serve these two separate purposes. [source]

Understanding the Drivers of Poverty Dynamics in Australian Households,

THE ECONOMIC RECORD, Issue 266 2008
HIELKE BUDDELMEYER
This paper contributes to the growing literature on poverty dynamics in Australian households. The results reveal that a range of life-changing events, household head, partner and demographic characteristics have an impact on both the likelihood of remaining poor and slipping into poverty. These findings have important implications for Australian policymakers: tertiary education and employment are key factors in keeping households out of poverty; having a disability or living in outer-regional or remote areas increases the probability of becoming poor and remaining in such a situation; and finally, life-changing events, especially becoming separated, can lead households into persistent poverty. [source]

Poverty dynamics: empirical evidence for Canada

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Issue 2 2003
Ross Finnie
The distributions of short- and long-term episodes are identified and reveal substantial differences by sex and family type. Entry and exit models explore the relationships between poverty transitions and sex, family status and other personal and situational attributes. Duration effects on exiting and re-entering poverty are found to be important, and models including past poverty experiences point to strong ,occurrence dependence' for poverty entry and incidence. Fixed-effect panel data models confirm the above and reveal asymmetries in the impacts of household transitions on poverty. JEL Classification: I3 La dynamique de la pauvreté : résultats empiriques pour le Canada., Les auteurs examinent la dynamique de la pauvreté(bas revenus)à l'aide des données disponibles pour les citoyens qui ont soumis leurs rapports d'impôt entre 1992 et 1996. On identifie les distributions d'épisodes (courts et longs) de pauvreté, et celles-ci révèlent des différences significatives selon le sexe et les attributs familiaux. Les modèles d'entrée et sortie identifient les relations entre le statut de pauvreté, le sexe, le statut familial, et d'autres attributs personnels et situationnels. Il appert que les effets de durée sur les périodes de sortie et de ré-entrée dans un statut de pauvreté sont importants; les modèles qui prennent en compte les épisodes de pauvreté antérieurs montrent qu'il y a une forte corrélation (occurrence dependence) tant pour le passage au statut de pauvreté que pour l'incidence de tels épisodes. Les résultats des études transversales confirment ces résultats et révèlent des asymétries dans les impacts des transitions dans les ménages sur la pauvreté. [source]

Historical roots of poverty: A symposium

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Issue 8 2008
Sue Bowden
Abstract The current anti-poverty wave, beginning in the 1990s, has not been deeply influenced by the processes which caused underdevelopment in the past. This is a pity, because historical awareness can help define the processes and institutions which have caused poverty in the past, and provide ideas from the past which can inspire present-day policy. The essays in this volume all use primary source materials to open up pathways towards the better understanding of present-day poverty dynamics in the developing world. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Understanding the Drivers of Poverty Dynamics in Australian Households,

THE ECONOMIC RECORD, Issue 266 2008
HIELKE BUDDELMEYER
This paper contributes to the growing literature on poverty dynamics in Australian households. The results reveal that a range of life-changing events, household head, partner and demographic characteristics have an impact on both the likelihood of remaining poor and slipping into poverty. These findings have important implications for Australian policymakers: tertiary education and employment are key factors in keeping households out of poverty; having a disability or living in outer-regional or remote areas increases the probability of becoming poor and remaining in such a situation; and finally, life-changing events, especially becoming separated, can lead households into persistent poverty. [source]