Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa
By: edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter and Peter D. Little.
Contributors: Barrett, Christopher B.; Little, Peter D.; Carter, Michael R.
Series: Journal of development studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780415411387
Subjects: Poverty -- Africa.; Poverty -- Government policy -- Africa.; Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-; Africa -- Economic policy.
Notes: Previously published as a special issue of: Journal of development studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa : introduction to a special issue / Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter & Peter D. Little; value: The economics of poverty traps and persistent poverty : an asset-based approach / Michael R. Carter & Christopher B. Barrett; value: "Moving in place" : drought and poverty dynamics in South Wollo, Ethiopia / Peter D. Little ... [et al.]; value: Exploring poverty traps and social exclusion in South Africa using qualitative and quantitative data / Michelle Adato, Michael R. Carter & Julian May; value: Welfare dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar / Christopher B. Barrett ... [et al.]; value: Persistent poverty in North East Ghana / Ann Whitehead; value: Shocks and their consequences across and within households in rural Zimbabwe / John Hoddinott; value: Rural income and poverty in a time of radical change in Malawi / Pauline E. Peters; value: Escaping poverty and becoming poor in 36 villages of central and western Uganda / Anirudh Krishna ... [et al.].