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Adverse Incorporation, Social Exclusion, and Chronic Poverty

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Chronic Poverty

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Abstract

Poverty studies frequently fail to address the underlying processes that produce and reproduce poverty over time, preferring instead a descriptive focus on its correlates and characteristics. In this chapter, it is suggested that a much closer interrogation of the linkages between the state of chronic poverty and the processes of adverse incorporation and/or social exclusion that trap people in poverty is necessary. It is also proposed that these concepts can significantly advance current understandings of chronic poverty because they compel taking issues of causality seriously and relate these directly to social structures, relations, and processes. In particular, they force the examination of the multidimensional, political, and historical nature of persistent poverty.

This paper has drawn heavily on an annotated bibliography produced by Smith (2007), and the authors are grateful for her thoughtful and timely efforts.

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  1. Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, Overseas Development Institute, London, UK

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  2. Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, Brooks World Poverty Institute, The University of Manchester, UK

    Julia Brunt (Programme and Uptake Manager) (Programme and Uptake Manager)

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Hickey, S., du Toit, A. (2013). Adverse Incorporation, Social Exclusion, and Chronic Poverty. In: Shepherd, A., Brunt, J. (eds) Chronic Poverty. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316707_7

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