Adaptation, Poverty and Development: The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being

Adaptation, Poverty and Development: The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being

Adaptation, Poverty and Development: The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being

Adaptation, Poverty and Development: The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being

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Overview

The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230360563
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 04/05/2012
Series: Rethinking International Development series
Edition description: 2012
Pages: 229
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

ABIGAIL BARR Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, UK MARCEL FAFCHAMPS Professor of Development Economics and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, UK RAMANI GUNATILAKA Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia BEREKET KEBEDE Senior Lecturer in Economics, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK JOHN KNIGHT Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, UK DANIEL NEFF Research Fellow, Institute of Asian Studies (IAS), German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany WENDY OLSEN Senior Lecturer in Socio-Economic Research, Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR), and Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), University of Manchester, UK MOZAFFAR QIZILBASH Professor of Politics, Economics and Philosophy in the Department of Economics and Related Studies and Director of the School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy, University of York, UK BHIM REDDY Ph.D student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, India.

Table of Contents

Illustrations ix

Foreword David Hulme xii

Preface xv

List of Contributors xvii

1 Adaptation and Development - Issues, Evidence and Policy Relevance David A. Clark 1

Part I Adaptation and Development: Concepts and Issues

2 Utilitarianism, 'Adaptation' and Paternalism Mozaffar Qizilbash 35

3 Adaptation: Implications for Development in Theory and Practice David A. Clark 61

Part II Adaptation and Development: Three Case Studies

4 Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Weil-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China John Knight Ramani Gunatilaka 91

5 A Multidimensional Analysis of Adaptation in a Developing Country Context Abigail Ban David A. Clark 111

6 Adaptation, Poverty and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from South India Daniel Neff 137

Part III Adaptation and Development: Specific Issues

7 Subjective Well-Being, Disability and Adaptation: A Case Study from Rural Ethiopia Marcel Fafchamps Bereket Kebede 161

8 Adaptation of the Rural Working Class in India: A Case Study of Migrant Workers Bhim Reddy Wendy Olsen 181

Name Index 215

Subject Index 221

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