Staying Secure, Staying Poor: The “Faustian Bargain”

By G. Wood. 2003

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Poverty Traps and Safety Nets (2006, background): “Several recent studies – notably Elbers and Gunning (2003) and Wood (2003) – similarly observe that households can trap themselves in chronic poverty through their rational approach to risk management.”
Policy without politics: technocratic control of climate change adaptation policy making in Nepal (2016, background): “Getting their voices into the policy process is particularly challenging as such groups may by necessity greatly discount the future in order to survive in the present (Wood, 2003) and are unable to engage with longer-term climatic risks.”
The Chronic Poverty Report 2008–2009 (2009, background): “‘Rational’ responses to vulnerability adopted by poor households can create poverty traps from which it may be hard to escape (for example see Morduch, 1995; Wood, 2003; Schubert, 2005).”
Social protection and poverty (2011, background): “…Srinivas 2000); adopting less productive, but safer, crops (Morduch 1995; Dercon 2005a, 2005b); and resorting to adverse incorporation as a means of protection, for example, by trading autonomy and the potential for economic improvement in exchange for security from elites or patrons (Wood 2001).”
The role of non-timber forest products in household coping strategies in South Africa: the influence of household wealth and gender (2011, background): “Wood (2003) explains the livelihoods of the rural poor are continuously moving between troughs and peaks of security whereby households are involved in improving their livelihood outcomes or coping with vulnerability.”
Unfree labour and adverse incorporation in the global economy: comparative perspectives on Brazil and India (2013, background): “These terms can be such that workers’ possibilities for accumulation and the achievement of longer-term security are significantly impeded, perpetuating their chronic poverty and vulnerability (Bracking, 2003; Hickey & du Toit, 2007; Murray, 2001; Ponte, 2008; Wood, 2000, 2003).”
A comparative welfare regime approach to global social policy (2006, methodology): “In order to use this framework to analyze issues of welfare and security we modify EspingAndersen’s (1990, 1999) concept of ‘welfare state regimes’ and his analysis of the ‘three worlds of welfare capitalism’ in the West (Wood, 2003b; Gough & Wood et al., 2004).”
From correlates and characteristics to causes: thinking about poverty from a chronic poverty perspective (2005, background): “Poverty is accepted as a chronic condition (Wood, 2003).”
Outsourcing governance: states and the politics of a ‘global value chain world’ (2017, background): “However, the dynamics of ‘adverse incorporation’ are also in compelling evidence, wherein employment leads not to a reduction in poverty and vulnerability, but to their perpetuation and deepening (Wood 2003, Hickey and du Toit 2007, Ponte 2008, Phillips 2011b, 2013b).”
Cognitive and institutional influences on farmers’ adaptive capacity: insights into barriers and opportunities for transformative change in central Arizona (2016, background): “long understood the profound influence that social and political context—including formal institutional incentives, available information, and control over knowledge and meaning—can have on individual perceptions of oneself and one’s capacities (c.f., Scott 1998; Wood 2003; Avelino and Rotmans 2009)”
Adverse Incorporation, Social Exclusion and Chronic Poverty (2007, background): “Similarly, analyses of exploitative patron client relationships from an adverse incorporation perspective would not only consider the exploitative aspects of such relationships, but also examine the institutional arrangements and cultural frameworks that make it difficult for clients to leave (du To”
Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of Imposed Innovation for the Wellbeing of Rural Smallholders (2016, background): “When uncertainty levels are high, the poor are more likely to try to maintain what they have than to try to accumulate by engaging in new and risky behaviors (Mosley & Verschoor, 2005; Wood, 2003).”
The Role of non-timber forest products as safety-nets: A review of evidence with a focus on South Africa (2005, background): “Poverty traps are activities that provide short-term security but constrain households in the long-term (Wood, 2003).”