One Illness Away. Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty

Preț: 150,00 lei
Disponibilitate: la comandă
ISBN: 9780199584512
Anul publicării: 2011
Pagini: 256

DESCRIERE

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 of people who fell into abject poverty and others who managed to escape their seemingly predetermined fates. Letting a farmhand's son or daughter remain a farmhand, even though she or he is potentially the next Einstein, is a tragedy that poor people witness time after time. Remedying this situation is crucial for making poverty history. This book addresses how equal opportunity can be promoted and how slum-born millionaires can arise in reality. Speaking to Barack Obama's message for more effective health care, One Illness Away feeds directly into current public debates. Learning from thousands of individual experiences, this book presents a clear agenda for action and provides more effective ways of keeping people out of micro poverty traps.

Readership: Academics, researchers, and students of development and welfare economics. NGOs, policy makers, the donor community, and those interested in poverty studies, political science, sociology, social mobility, and debates on health care.

Anirudh Krishna, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA.

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
7: A Two-Pronged Strategy
Appendix: Measuring Poverty: Testing Stages-of-Progress

RECENZII

Spune-ne opinia ta despre acest produs! scrie o recenzie
Created in 0.0428 sec