Being Poor and Becoming Poor: Poverty Status and Poverty Transitions in Rural Pakistan

By B. Baulch, N. McCulloch. 2002

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This paper contrasts the results of conventional poverty status regressions with an alternative approach, the analysis of poverty transitions, using a five-year longitudinal household survey from rural Pakistan. The results show that while the incidence of income poverty in the sample villages was high, turnover among the poor was rapid. Almost 60 percent of households experienced poverty during the five years of the panel but only 35 percent stayed in poverty for two or more years. Only 3 percent of households were poor in all five years of the panel. Furthermore, the correlates of entries and exits from poverty are found to differ in important but unexpected ways from those of poverty status. The policy implications of these findings, if confirmed elsewhere, indicate that targeting antipoverty policies using the characteristics of the currently poor is highly problematic.

Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Poverty Measurement and Analysis (2002, unknown): “Over entire period: 1986/87 – 1990/91 24 49 Source: Baulch and McCulloch (1998).”
Escaping poverty and becoming poor: who gains, who loses, and why? Accounting for stability and change in 35 North Indian villages. (2003, background): “3 Notable examples include Baulch and McCulloch (2002); Christiaensen, et al.”
Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor: Who Gains, Who Loses, and Why? (2004, background): “3. Notable examples include Baulch and McCulloch (2002) ; Christiaensen, Demery, and Paternostro (2002); Deininger and Okidi (2002); Dercon (2001); Gaiha and Kulkarni (1998); Glewwe and Hall (1998); Haddad and Ahmed (2003); and Sen (2003).”
Vulnerability, seasonality and poverty in Ethiopia (2000, background): “Baulch and McCulloch [1998] report that in panel data from Pakistan about half the poor households escaped poverty by the next year, with only 3 percent of households poor in each of their five years of data.”
Frameworks for Understanding the Inter-Generational Transmission of Poverty and Well-Being in Developing Countries (2001, unknown): “In fact, Yaqub (2000) cites three studies (Trzcinski and Randolph 1991; Scott and Litchfield 1994; Baulch and McCulloch 1998) in which education levels had an ambiguous or negative effect on income levels or income mobility.”
Enduring Poverty and the Conditions of Childhood: Lifecourse and Intergenerational Poverty Transmissions (2003, background): “Yaqub (2000) cites three studies (Trzcinski & Randolph 1991; Scott & Litchfield 1994; Baulch & McCulloch 1998) in which the relationship between education levels and income levels or mobility seem to be insignificant or asymmetric (i.e. education has no effect on relative upward mobility but lowers…”
Pathways out of and into poverty in 36 villages of Andhra Pradesh, India (2006, background): “Micro-level studies implemented in other parts of the world indicate similarly that households’ movements upward are responsive to one set of factors, while households’ movements downward are responsive to another and different set of factors (Aliber, 2003; Barrett, 2001; Baulch & McCulloch, 2002; ”