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Camfield, Laura 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0165-9857 and Roelen, Keetie
(2012)
Chronic Poverty in Rural Ethiopia through the Lens of Life Histories.
Working Paper.
Institute for Development Studies.
Abstract
Studying chronic poverty using retrospective qualitative data (life histories) in conjunction with longitudinal panel data is now widely recognised to provide deeper and more reliable insights (Davis and Baulch, 2009). This paper uses three rounds of panel data and life histories collected by Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty, to identify factors that contribute to households becoming or remaining poor in rural Ethiopia, with related effects on the children within those households. It combines a case-centred and a variable-centred approach (Ragin, 1987), analysing and comparing the experiences of individual households on the basis of qualitative and quantitative techniques and interrogating these findings by looking at attributes of households (variables) across a larger sample. The substantive findings on poverty ‘drivers’ and ‘maintainers’ (Baulch, 2011) support those of previous studies: rainfall, illness, debt, exclusion from the main form of social protection. But by mixing different types of data and analysis, the paper was able to show that combinations of factors rather than single events drive households into poverty, and that household characteristics can play an important factor. The primary contribution of the paper is methodological as it presents a novel method of using life histories to investigate chronic poverty in rural Ethiopia by generating or testing hypotheses/findings on poverty drivers and maintainers.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | chronic poverty,life histories,mixed-methods,ethiopia,sdg 1 - no poverty ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/no_poverty |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
| Depositing User: | Laura Camfield |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2012 14:01 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2023 01:32 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/39240 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.2040-0209.2012.00399.x |
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