One illness away: why people become poor and how they escape 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. It draws on personal interviews with 35,000 households in different parts of India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, and the United States. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958451-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés