Tracing processes in poverty dynamics : a tale of peri-urban small-scale farmers in Mexico City
Farmer ; Household ; Income ; Livelihood ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Periurban development ; Poverty ; Social geography ; Urban development ; Urbanization ; Village
This paper traces the vicious and enabling processes by which peri-urban small farmers in the periphery of Mexico City change their poverty status over time. The findings support the importance of multidisciplinary explanatory frameworks
for understanding poverty dynamics in peri-urban areas. Micro-level process-based analysis may help to support more appropriate and inclusive social and poverty reduction policies in (peri-)urban areas in developing regions.
Commodifying poverty : gentrification and consumption in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
British Columbia ; Canada ; Commodification ; Decayed neighbourhood ; Gentrification ; Poverty ; Restaurant trade ; Social geography ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal ; Vancouver
This article examines the commodification of poverty through gentrification and consumption in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The results indicate that the presence of poor and marginalized residents living in this neighborhood is one of the reasons
for some consumers’ decisions to visit new upscale establishments in the area. It concludes that this trend toward poverty tourism signals a shift from the simple displacement of low-income residents to a more complex form of gentrification in which
residents face spatial management and control while their poverty is commodified.
The politics of defining and alleviating poverty : state strategies and their impacts in rural Kerala
Employment ; India ; Kerala ; Labour ; Living standard ; Policy ; Poverty ; Self-employment ; Social development
of individual transitions out of poverty are reproduced, which indicate that the state pays insufficient attention to the highly unequal social and economic relationships reproducing poverty, and to poverty's political nature.
Rural poverty in Rural USA Persistence and change.
Intéressante approche du phénomène pauvreté aux Etats-Unis, à l'échelle du monde rural. Complète et actualise les études de M. Harrington (The other America: poverty in the United States, 1962) et de J. Soppelsa (Difficultés de lutte contre la
The scope for poverty alleviation among elderly home-owners in the United States through reverse mortgages
Elderly people ; Housing ; Housing occupance ; Interest rate ; Living standard ; Poverty ; Sensitivity analysis ; United States of America
of the HECM reverse mortgage product which is sponsored by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. The poverty rate of elderly households can be reduced by means of reverse mortgages.
Agricultural production ; Data ; Famine;Starvation ; Food ; Food consumption ; Food resources ; India ; Malnutrition ; Poverty ; Regional disparities
Using average nutritive values of food actually consumed by individuals, the paper identifies regional concentration of hunger (food poverty) and its changes over time (1973-83) in rural India. There is a heavy concentration of hunger in the coastal
Rural poverty in Romania and the need for diversification : Carpathian studies
Poverty ; Romania ; Rural society
The rural areas in Romania present a particularly acute poverty problem of which solving requires a package of measures that involve all branches of government. The presented case studies indicate a consensus over the lack of any basis for viability
Poverty, land care, and sustainable livelihoods in hillside and mountain regions
Environmental degradation ; Hill ; Living conditions ; Living standard ; Mountain ; Natural resources ; Poverty ; Resource management
In the run, households and local communities will attain livelihood security through their own ingenuity and with help from institutions and technologies. In the short run, however, we need to develop a better understanding of the causes of poverty
Inquiring minds and postcolonial devices : examining poverty at a distance
Development ; Enquiry ; Ethnic community ; North-South relations ; Poverty ; South Africa ; Southern Africa
about ethnocentrism. It focuses on an inquiry into poverty and development in southern Africa. The spatial genealogies of knowledge can be traced, together with the diverse modes and relations of power on which inquiries are based and that they also
Deconcentration by demolition : public housing, poverty, and urban policy
Ghetto ; Housing ; Housing policy ; Poverty ; Public sector ; Segregation ; Spatial concentration ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban policy
be demolished and the residents relocated. The A. argues that such federal public housing policies are based on a conceptually inadequate understanding of the role of space and of spatial influences on poverty and on the behavior of poor people.