Moving Out of Poverty

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.

SHELTON H. DAVIS Senior Fellow, Center for Latin American Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA STEFAN DERCON Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford, UK; Member, European Development Network; Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK T. SCARLETT EPSTEIN, OBE Retired Research Professor, University of Sussex, UK ROBERT ERIKSON Professor of Sociology, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden XAVIER GODINOT Director, Research and Training Institute of Mouvement International ATD Quart Monde (International Movement ATD Fourth World), France ANTHONY HALL London School of Economics, UK CLAUDE HEYBERGER International Movement ATD Fourth World PATRICIA HEYBERGER International Movement ATD Fourth World ANIRUDH KRISHNA Duke University, USA; Researcher, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, USA BRIAN NOLAN Professor of Public Policy, School of Applied Social Science, University College Dublin, Ireland JANICE E. PERLMAN President, Mega-Cities Project JOSEPH S. SHAPIRO Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA CHARLES TILLY Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University, USA MARCO UGARTE International Movement ATD Fourth World ROSARIO UGARTE International Movement ATD Fourth World