By Jan Nederveen Pieterse, B. Rehbein
Within the surroundings of twenty-first century globalization this quantity makes a speciality of rising societies, instead of rising markets or powers. Adopting a sociological standpoint, each chapter specializes in improvement and social inequality in rising societies, with contributions from renowned overseas students.
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However, the existence of higher vulnerability needs to be detected before it can be ameliorated and rectified. Unfortunately, national stat istical systems do not facilitate any such detection, and the existence of high vulnerability can continue, unidentified and unchecked, nul per cent of households succeeded in escaping out of poverty (Krishna lifying other efforts made to speed up escapes out of poverty. The few et al. decentralized data sources in existence show that vulnerability is a large 2004).
Earlier incarnations of this chapter appeared in Futures, XL (8), October 2008, and in M. Petrusewicz et al. (2008). 2. 15 per cent a year communities - have been at the forefront of reversing the neoliberal and during this period, per capita GDP increased from Rs 224 to Rs 233 (in tendency. Unlike some other OPEC countries, which have also repatri 1948-9 prices). 5 billion in Argentine debt, sell ing oil at below-market prices to 13 Caribbean states, financing better (Hatekar and Dongre 2005, pp.
Finally, I introduce results from others' studies which show that - because of the operation of similar reasons - similar trends might also be operating elsewhere, resulting in an increase in vulnerability and rising volatility. India and in Kenya. ies. The Stages-of-Progress methodology is an innovative, community based approach for identifying and explaining households' movements vis-a-vis poverty. This methodology is rigorous but relatively simple to and examining poverty dynamics for more than 25,000 households over ing increasing vulnerability and growing volatility within communities of and North Carolina studies, and the second set of studies in Rajasthan, A new methodology was developed for conducting these separate stud information, comparing trends.