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Why Poverty Persists

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A decade ago, around the time the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) was conceived, I co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies with John Hoddinott entitled ‘Poverty dynamics and economic mobility in developing countries’ (Baulch and Hoddinott, 2000). This issue, which subsequently became a book, contained a collection of six studies on poverty dynamics drawn from the (then) very limited pool of household (longitudinal) panels in developing countries. Since then, the number of panels available in developing and transition economies has expanded considerably.1 However, most of these panels still span rela- tively short periods of time, have just two rounds, and pay limited atten- tion to the issues of tracking, attrition and measurement error (Dercon and Shapiro, 2007). This book, which is based primarily on the work commissioned by the CPRC’s poverty dynamics and economic mobility theme, brings together six more panel studies from Asia and Africa. The distinguishing feature of these studies is that they are longer term and/ or have more waves than most panel studies and pay careful attention to tracking, attrition and measurement error.
This chapter provides a broad introduction to the methodological issues that arise when analysing poverty dynamics in longer panels, together with the main findings from the six country studies. The methodological issues discussed include how one should identify and measure the chronically poor, attrition and tracking, the pernicious influence of measurement error, modelling poverty transitions, and sequencing and integrating qualitative and quantitative methods

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Why Poverty Persists

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USA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited., 2011

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1-296

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English

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978 0 85793 024 8

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1st Edtion

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