Poverty in Polycrisis : Dynamic Pathways for Lasting Change.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diwakar, Vidya.

Series:

Rethinking Development Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

We are living in a period of global volatility in which intersecting crises are combining with devastating impacts for people living in and near poverty. This book examines the dynamics of these crises and challenges us to find new ways forward for policies and programming that effectively meet the needs of vulnerable populations.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of boxes

Foreword

Acknowledgements

PART I: Framing the polycrisis: theory, concepts and poverty linkages

1. Introduction

2. Conceptualising polycrisis and poverty dynamics

PART II: Mixed methods evidence on poverty dynamics in times of polycrisis

3. Poverty dynamics and economic crisis in a changing climate

4. Poverty dynamics amidst the climate- conflict nexus

5. Humanitarian contexts, extreme polycrisis and acute poverty frontiers

6. Surviving or thriving? Coping responses and pathways out of poverty amidst polycrisis

PART III: From evidence to action: policy and programmatic pathways

7. Centring equity and risk in institutional responses to polycrisis

8. Breaking the link between polycrisis and poverty

Annexes

Annex A: Construction of cross-country crises and coping capacity thresholds

Annex B: Poverty definitions and data collection

Annex C: Variable list from panel survey data

Annex D: Regression results

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-053754-5

9781003503125

OCLC:

1583180501