Livelihoods and Chronic Poverty in Semi-Arid Zimbabwe

By K. Bird, A. Shepherd. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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Are Fishers Poor or Vulnerable? Assessing Economic Vulnerability in Small-Scale Fishing Communities (2009, background): “…these risks (drought, flood, disease epidemics) poor households in RRAs are exposed to inter-linked shocks which can deepen and prolong their poverty, leading to spatial poverty traps and chronic poverty (Bird and Shepherd, 2003; Barrett, 2005; Barrett and McPeak, 2005; Carter and Barrett, 2006).”
Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: an overview (2005, background): “The chronic poor will be the majority of those in deep poverty by 2015 (Hulme, 2003, p. 399), and the chronic poor tend to live disproportionately in remote rural areas (Bird & Shepherd, 2003, p. 591; Hulme & Shepherd, 2003, pp. 410–411, 417; McKay & Lawson, 2003, p. 431).”
The Influence of Formal and Informal Institutional Voids on Entrepreneurship (2020, background): “First, some societies uphold caste-, apartheid-, or patriarchal-based systems that exclude certain groups of individuals from participating in economic transactions or place them at severe market disadvantages (Bird & Shepherd, 2003).”
Poverty reduction as a local institutional process (2005, background): “…greatest proportion of poor people in Cameroon (Government of Cameroon, 2002), the Mandara Mountains may be characterized as a remote rural area (Bird & Shepherd, 2003), not only because of their geographical isolation, but also because the region has—since pre-colonial times—kept a social,…”
Exploring Strategies that Build Livelihood Resilience: a Case from Cambodia (2006, background): “In other cases, households may be able to benefit from their proximity to other sources of growth and opportunity, provided they have the capacity to do so (Bird and Shepherd 2003).”