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Chronic Poverty: Current Global Scenerio

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Extreme poverty; Money metric approach of measuring poverty; Poverty spectrum; Sustainable development; Transient poor

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Baulch and Hoddinott (2000) defined economic mobility and poverty in three dimensions: The first is the metric through which welfare is the measure. Temporal over the time frame and the methods used to summarize and measure those welfare aspects of the population are the second and third dimensions. The most common metrics used for measuring welfare are consumption, income, assets, health, and expenditures. McKay and Lawson (2003) argued that chronic poor have unique characteristics in terms of lack of assets or high dependency rates while accounting for persistent poverty. Hulme and Shepherd (2003) explore the concept of chronic poverty and explain the dynamics that underpin it. Their study also reviews “who” is chronically poor and policies to reduce chronic poverty.

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  1. Department of Economics, FLAME University, Pune, India

    Vaishali Dhingra & Barun Kumar Thakur

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  5. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  6. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  2. UN One Planet Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme, Paris, France

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Dhingra, V., Thakur, B.K. (2020). Chronic Poverty: Current Global Scenerio. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) No Poverty. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69625-6_109-1

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