Conceptualizing chronic poverty

Argomenti del programma: Topics outline 1. Introduction: development at large 2. Demographic challenges to development 3. Global income inequality and global poverty 4. Chronic poverty 5. Selected topic on inequality: women empowerment and economic development 6. Behavioral foundations for economic development 7. Economic lives of the poor 8.

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Argomenti del programma: The term 'social capital' is often used in different contexts. We can interpret the idea of social capital as that of a form of institution that can be relevant in the process of change of local communities. Since the allocation of economic resources is key for the creation and propagation of the sources of change in a production structure, understanding the role of social capital may help us to explain how…