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Primary education is widely perceived to have a key role in reducing poverty and is positively associated with … to breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, this review argues that the processes by which … education influences poverty are insufficiently understood, particularly with respect to intergenerational poverty transmission …
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widespread problems, which have been shown to drive and maintain poverty and which are also clearly associated with … the focus of this study because they are generally weakly addressed by the development and poverty policies of both donors … they necessarily have the strongest causal link with chronic poverty, marginality or vulnerability, but rather because they …
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Intergenerational Transmissions of Poverty (IGT), which attempts to identify the extent to which such processes occur, the nature and … likelihood that poverty is passed from one generation to the next. This annotated bibliography is divided into sections …, Training and Reversals in Poverty Trajectories - Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (This section …
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The relationships between poverty and the environment are highly contested, debated and researched. The sustainable … of sustainable development. The relationship between environmental sustainability and poverty is two-fold. From an … environmental perspective poverty is often seen as a key driving force behind unsustainable environmental use. In relation to …
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. Applied to childhood poverty, poverty over the life course and the intergenerational transmission of poverty, the resilience … humans are able to overcome the negative outcomes of poverty and prevent its transfer within families, households and … communities. This paper reviews the development and application of the concept and assesses its usefulness for poverty researchers …
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This article argues that the extreme poor warrant specific analytical and policy focus. It attempts to identify the extreme poor in rural Bangladesh by devising sensitive targeting indicators that are effective in minimising leakage to the non-poor while ensuring broad coverage of the target...
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Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh (Phase II). A comparison between the National Child Labour Survey 1995-96 and 2002 …
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Poverty has different and varying manifestations. In fact, Hulme et al (2001) proposes a five-tiered categorisation of … poverty. This identifies the always poor, usually poor, churning poor, occasionally poor and never poor. The first two … associated with transition in the poverty status of a household should help us to understand the processes that create or erode …
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This paper provides an update of the changes that Bangladesh has undergone in terms of its poverty and social … achieved notable progress in terms of poverty and social indicators over the past one and half decades. There are, however …
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Orissa has a varied physiography on account of a wide range of physical features and agro-ecological conditions. These determine to a large extent the human geography on the basis of ‘carrying capacity' of land. The state is usually divided into four agro-climatic zones: Northern Plateau;...
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