Chronic Poverty: Meanings and Analytical Frameworks

Moore, Karen; Hulme, David; Shepherd, Andrew; Mehta, Aasha Kapur; Ghosh, Sourabh; Chatterjee, Dipankar; Menon, Nidhiya

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“…These estimates show that the subgroup of chronic poverty constitutes about half of the poor households in both rural and urban areas. These numbers are almost identical with those provided by Radhakrishna et al (2006) and Hulme, Moore and Shepherd (2001) for all-India.…”

Section: Incidence and Characteristics Of Poverty Groupssupporting

confidence: 90%

“…1 The estimates of the prevalence of chronic poverty vary between 300 and 422 million, of which nearly half are in South Asia and one-third in India (Hulme, Moore and Shepherd 2001). Recent estimates show that the incidence of chronic poverty in India is about 13-15 percent, constituting half of the poor (Radhakrishna et al 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Clearly, the nutrition theory of poverty explains why 1 A large literature has emerged on the conceptualization and measurement of the incidence of chronic poverty. See Hulme, Moore and Shepherd (2001).…”

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“…Ex-ante risk management strategies are prospective strategies employed to enhance household capacity to respond to a risk situation before it occurs such as diversifying the sources of household income e.g. combining agriculture and other paid wage work outside of agriculture or agriculture and migration strategies etc while ex-post coping strategies are employed to reduce, mitigate or deal with an adverse risk situation that household is currently experiencing (see Ellis, 2000;Hulme et al, 2001;Chaudhuri, 2003). However, the challenge in rural development policy is in deciding on the appropriate and best intervention point either as ex-ante risk management intervention or as ex-post coping strategy intervention that will effectively improve household"s well-being (Prowse, 2003).…”

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“…Such analysis shows how these factors create persisting 'poverty traps' that are transmitted inter-generationally with their own selfreproducing effects on self-esteem and physical and mental development, as for example, when the damaging effects of childhood poverty become irreversible (Hulme, Moore andShepherd 2003, Shepherd 2006).…”

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Power and the Durability of Poverty: A Critical Exploration of the Links between Culture, Marginality and Chronic Poverty

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Building on approaches that adopt what might be called a 'relational' approach to poverty, and using recurring case-studies from India, this paper examines poverty as an outcome of the historical and contemporary dynamics of capitalism -including processes of accumulation, dispossession, differentiation and exploitation; but equally, considers the social mechanisms, categories and identities which perpetuate inequality and facilitate relations of exploitation. The paper adopts an approach (drawing on Charles Tilly) that combines an examination of exploitation with Weberian ideas of social closure. In this way, the paper aims to show that 'adverse incorporation' and 'social exclusion' are not alternative or competing frameworks: the excluded are simultaneously dominated and excluded.A second aim is to integrate a multi-dimensional understanding of power -as domination, patronage, and political representation -into the analysis of poverty, drawing on the work of Steven Lukes, Pierre Bourdieu, and Arjun Appadurai; and a third aim is to see how incorporating power can help analyse different approaches to poverty reduction ranging from anti-poverty programmes and political decentralisation to mainstream party political processes.In developing the argument the paper focuses on the interlocking circumstances of chronically poor cultivators living in deforested uplands, indebted migrant casual labourers on the urban fringes, and the social identities of adivasis and dalits ('tribals' and 'untouchables') subordinated in Indian society. This both highlights particular spatial and social inequalities in India, and reflects on the cultural construction of power; its effects on material well-being and agency, and on the opportunities and constraints in struggles for political representation.

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Chronic Poverty: Meanings and Analytical Frameworks

Cited by 162 publications

References 30 publications

Estimation and Determination of Chronic Poverty in India: An Alternative Approach

Estimation and Determination of Chronic Poverty in India: An Alternative Approach

Livelihood Vulnerability and Migration Decision-Making Nexus: Case Studies from Rural Households in Nigeria

Power and the Durability of Poverty: A Critical Exploration of the Links between Culture, Marginality and Chronic Poverty

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