One illness away : why people become poor and how they escape poverty / Anirudh Krishna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krishna, Anirudh, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are concurrently falling into chronic poverty. This book presents the first large-scale examination of the reasons why people fall into poverty and how they escape it in diverse contexts. Drawing upon personal interviews with 35,000 households in different parts of India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, and the United States, it takes you on an illustrative journey, filled with facts, analyses, and the life stories

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1. Refilling the Pool of Poverty; 2. Poverty Flows; 3. The Rising-Falling Tide; 4. Reasons for Descent: The Health Poverty Trap; 5. Reasons for Escape: Diversification and Agriculture; 6. Connecting Capability with Opportunity: Investing in Information; 7. A Two-pronged Strategy: Protection and Opportunity; Appendix. Measuring Poverty: Testing Stages-of-Progress; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-219) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-162504-3

0-19-180863-6

1-283-29690-X

9786613296900

0-19-161297-9

OCLC:

756484823