Moving Out of Poverty Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility

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, 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 frameworks and evidence from their own works. The 'Moving Out of Poverty' series launched in 2007 is under the editorial direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World Bank and former director of the pathbreaking 'Voices of the Poor' series. It features the results of new comparative research across more than 500 communities in 15 countries to understand how and why people move out of poverty, and presents other work which builds on interdisciplinary and contextually grounded understandings of growth and poverty reduction.

Introduction and Overview;D.Narayan&P.Petesch- SECTION I: MOBILITY ACROSS COUNTRIES AND STATES - Poverty and the Politics of Exclusion;C.Tilly- Poverty Mobility: A Review of Quantitative Methods and Evidence;S.Dercon&J.Shapiro- Intragenerational Income Mobility: Poverty Dynamics in Industrial Societies;R.Erikson&B.Nolan- Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in Three States of India (with additional evidence from Kenya, Uganda and Peru);A.Krishna- SECTION II: INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MOBILITY - Poverty, Caste and Migration in South India;S.Epstein- Elusive Pathways Out of Poverty: Intra and Inter-generational mobility in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro;J.Perlman&S.Anthony- Escaping Extreme Poverty: Family Monographs from Burkina Faso and Peru;X.Godinot, C.Heyberger, P.Heyberger, M.Ugarte&R.Ugarte- SECTION III: MIGRATION, IDENTITY AND EMPOWERMENT - Moving Away from Poverty: Migrant Remittances, Livelihoods and Development;A.Hall- Migration, Remittances and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala;S.Davis