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Social Mobility in Developing Countries

Concepts, Methods, and Determinants
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512 Seiten
Englisch
Oxford University Presserschienen am21.12.2021
Combines research from different disciplines to assess social mobility in developing countries.mehr
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KlappentextCombines research from different disciplines to assess social mobility in developing countries.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-289685-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2021
Erscheinungsdatum21.12.2021
Seiten512 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 157 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 36 mm
Gewicht930 g
Artikel-Nr.58196789
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GenreWirtschaft

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART I. INTRODUCTION1: Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen: The state of knowledge about social mobility in the developing worldPART II: THEORY AND CONCEPTS2: Patrizio Piraino: Drivers of mobility in the Global South3: Gary Fields: Exploring concepts of social mobility4: Vegard Iversen: Social mobility in developing countries: Measurement and downward mobility pitfalls5: Ravi Kanbur: In praise of snapshotsPART III: TYPES OF MOBILITY6: Himanshu and Peter Lanjouw: Income mobility in the developing world: Recent approaches and evidence7: Florencia Torche: Educational mobility in the developing world8: Anthony Heath and Yizhang Zhao: Rethinking occupational mobility in developing countries: Conceptual issues and empirical findingsPART IV: DIALOGUE ON MEASUREMENT AND METHODS9: M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi: Economic approach to intergenerational mobility: Measures, methods, and challenges in developing countries10: Yaojun Li: Social mobility in China: A case study of social mobility research in the Global South11: Divya Vaid: Ethnography and social mobility: A review12: Gregory Clark: Measuring social mobility in historic and less developed societiesPART V: DRIVERS AND INHIBITORS13: Jere Behrman: Social mobility and human capital in low- and middle-income countries14: Anirudh Krishna and Emily Rains: Informalities, volatility, and precarious social mobility in urban slums15: Nancy Luke: Gender and social mobility: Exploring gender attitudes and women's labour force participation16: Patricia Funjika and Rachel M. Gisselquist: Social mobility and horizontal inequality17: Anandi Mani and Emma Riley: Social networks as levers of mobilityPART VI: CONCLUSIONS18: Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen: Social mobility in developing countries: Directions for research practice, knowledge gaps and policy supportmehr

Autor

Vegard Iversen is Professor of Development Economics and Head of the Livelihoods and Institutions Department, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich. After completing his PhD in development economics from University of Cambridge in 2000, he was tenured faculty at School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia until he moved to India in 2006. While living and working in India he was a Research Fellow in IFPRI's New Delhi office, a visiting faculty member at Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi), a Professor and Vice Dean at Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, an Adjunct Professor at Sanford School of Public Policy's Duke Semester in India programme and a Professor in the Economics Area, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He received the Annual Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for the best article in Journal of Development Studies in 2008 and has served on the journal's editorial board since 2016.

Anirudh Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. He received his PhD in government from Cornell University in 2000, and a Master's in economics from Delhi University in 1980. Professor Krishna's research investigates how poor communities and individuals in developing countries cope with the structural and personal constraints that result in poverty and powerlessness. Before returning to academia in 2000, he spent 14 years with the Indian Administrative Service, managing diverse rural and urban development initiatives. He received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 2011; the Olaf Palme Visiting Professorship from the Swedish Research Council in 2007; the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize in 2005 and 2013; and a best article award of the American Political Science Association in 2002.

Kunal Sen has over three decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research. He is the author of eight books and the editor of five volumes on the economics and political economy of development. He is Director of UNU-WIDER in Helsinki, and is a Professor of development economics at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. Professor Sen is a leading international expert on the political economy of growth and development. He has performed extensive research on international finance, the political economy determinants of inclusive growth, the dynamics of poverty, social exclusion, female labour force participation, and the informal sector in developing economies. His research has focused on India, East Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. He was awarded the Sanjaya Lall Prize in 2006 and the Dudley Seers Prize in 2003 for his publications.
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