Conceptualizing Chronic Poverty

摘要: Abstract This paper provides a meaning for the term chronic poverty “in nutshell” and explores concepts of poverty, vulnerability dynamics that underpin this meaning. Subsequently, it reviews “who” is chronically poor, “why” they stay poor what known about policies to reduce poverty. Despite limited knowledge available clear hundreds millions people are causes multifarious but can be analyzed through livelihoods frameworks scale nature will require an increase in levels financing allocated social protection developing countries. Recent conceptual methodological advances, increasing availability panel datasets, mean analysis deprivation move on from trends dynamics.