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UNINA9910778352203321 |
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Titolo |
Moving out of poverty . V. 1 Cross-disciplinary perspectives on mobility [[electronic resource] /] / Deepa Narayan and Patti Petesch, editors |
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Basingstoke ; ; New York, : Palgrave |
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Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-09981-3 |
9786611099817 |
0-8213-6992-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (394 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Narayan-ParkerDeepa |
PeteschPatti L |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Poverty - Developing countries |
Social mobility - Economic aspects - Developing countries |
Migrant labor - Developing countries |
Developing countries Economic conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acronyms; Contributors; 1 Agency, Opportunity Structure, and Poverty Escapes; Boxes; Figures; 2 Poverty and the Politics of Exclusion; 3 Moving On, Staying Behind, Getting Lost: Lessons on Poverty Mobility from Longitudinal Data; Tables; 4 Intragenerational Income Mobility: Poverty Dynamics in Industrial Societies; 5 Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in Three States of India, with Additional Evidence from Kenya, Uganda, and Peru; 6 Poverty, Caste, and Migration in South India; Case Studies |
7 Elusive Pathways Out of Poverty: Intra- and Intergenerational Mobility in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro8 Resisting Extreme Poverty: Learning from Families in Burkina Faso and Peru; 9 Moving Away from Poverty: Migrant Remittances, Livelihoods, and Development; 10 Migration, Remittances, and Ethnic Identity: The Experience of Guatemalan Maya in the United States |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast body of |
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conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic and social mobility, it takes 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, and much more. Leading development practitioners and scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new framework |
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