Moving Out of Poverty: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives: v. 1 (Moving Out of Poverty): Cross-disciplinary Perspectives: 1 (Moving Out of Poverty): ... Perspectives on Mobility (Stand Alones) - Softcover

Deepa Narayan

9780821369913: Moving Out of Poverty: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives: v. 1 (Moving Out of Poverty): Cross-disciplinary Perspectives: 1 (Moving Out of Poverty): ... Perspectives on Mobility (Stand Alones)

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ISBN 10: 0821369911 ISBN 13: 9780821369913

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2007

Moving Out of Poverty: v. 1 This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic and social mobility, the ten chapters take the reader on compelling journeys of multigenerational accounts of three villages in Kanartaka, India; twelve years in the life of a street child in Burkina Faso; a shorter t Full description

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Review:

"'The excellent papers in this volume should be read by economists who work on poverty dynamics in developing countries. They provide perspectives from other social science disciplines (and from economics) which are illuminating and instructive on methodology and on substance. Interdisciplinarity is key in advancing understanding of poverty dynamics. The papers in this volume show why, and how.' - Ravi Kanbur, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Economics, Cornell University, USA"

About the Author:

Shelton H. Davis Senior Fellow, Center for Latin American Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. Stefan Dercon Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford, UK; Member, European Development Network; Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK. T. Scarlett Epstein, OBE Retired Research Professor, University of Sussex, UK. Robert Erikson Professor of Sociology, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden. Xavier Godinot Director, Research and Training Institute of Mouvement International ATD Quart Monde (International Movement ATD Fourth World), France. Anthony Hall London School of Economics, UK. Claude Heyberger International Movement ATD Fourth World. Patricia Heyberger International Movement ATD Fourth World. Anirudh Krishna Duke University, USA; Researcher, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, USA. Brian Nolan Professor of Public Policy, School of Applied Social Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. Janice E. Perlman President, Mega-Cities Project. Joseph S. Shapiro Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Charles Tilly Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University, USA. Marco Ugarte International Movement ATD Fourth World. Rosario Ugarte International Movement ATD Fourth World.

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