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Immiserizing growth fails the poor : theory and empirical research / Paul Shaffer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2024Description: ix, 197 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780192870056
  • 9780192697158
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 338.9 SHA 022644
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Contents:
Part 1: Theory, Concepts, Processes, and Mechanisms1: Introduction2: Conceptual Framework: Failed and Malevolent Inclusion3: Historical Origins: Malthus, Ricardo, and Marx4: Contemporary Contributions: Processes and MechanismsPart 2: Empirical Evidence5: Cross Country Econometric Analysis6: Cross Country Qualitative Comparative Analysis7: Typology Construction for Case Study Selection8: Case Studies9: Conclusion.
Summary: "Immiserizing growth (IG) refers to situations where economic growth does not lead to poverty reduction. How should this phenomenon be conceptualised? How often, when and where does it occur? Why does it occur? This book aims to address these three sets of questions drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches. It presents a conceptualisation of IG which combines the notions of failed and malevolent inclusion, being bypassed and 'avoidably' harmed by growth, respectively. It addresses that second set of issues drawing on comparable household survey data from around 1990 using multiple poverty lines and time periods, and different measures of growth and poverty. It reviews explanations of immiserizing growth found in a wide variety of bodies of thought including the classical tradition of political economy (Mathus, Ricardo and Marx), radical traditions of scholarship, literatures on poverty dynamics and inclusive growth and empirical case studies. Eight categories of processes and mechanisms of IG emerge from these literatures related to: i) sectoral, spatial or other dimensions of growth; ii) poverty traps; iii) public action or inaction; iv) changes in relative prices or the terms of trade; v) technological change; vi) violence and conflict; vii) dispossessions and indebtedness and viii) environmental degradation and 'natural' phenomena. Part 2 of this manuscript empirically investigates some of these potential drivers of IG using econometric analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and case studies. The various chapters of this book make distinct historical, theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions and further our understanding of a phenomenon which remains underexamined and inadequately understood"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Theory, Concepts, Processes, and Mechanisms1: Introduction2: Conceptual Framework: Failed and Malevolent Inclusion3: Historical Origins: Malthus, Ricardo, and Marx4: Contemporary Contributions: Processes and MechanismsPart 2: Empirical Evidence5: Cross Country Econometric Analysis6: Cross Country Qualitative Comparative Analysis7: Typology Construction for Case Study Selection8: Case Studies9: Conclusion.

"Immiserizing growth (IG) refers to situations where economic growth does not lead to poverty reduction. How should this phenomenon be conceptualised? How often, when and where does it occur? Why does it occur? This book aims to address these three sets of questions drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches. It presents a conceptualisation of IG which combines the notions of failed and malevolent inclusion, being bypassed and 'avoidably' harmed by growth, respectively. It addresses that second set of issues drawing on comparable household survey data from around 1990 using multiple poverty lines and time periods, and different measures of growth and poverty. It reviews explanations of immiserizing growth found in a wide variety of bodies of thought including the classical tradition of political economy (Mathus, Ricardo and Marx), radical traditions of scholarship, literatures on poverty dynamics and inclusive growth and empirical case studies. Eight categories of processes and mechanisms of IG emerge from these literatures related to: i) sectoral, spatial or other dimensions of growth; ii) poverty traps; iii) public action or inaction; iv) changes in relative prices or the terms of trade; v) technological change; vi) violence and conflict; vii) dispossessions and indebtedness and viii) environmental degradation and 'natural' phenomena. Part 2 of this manuscript empirically investigates some of these potential drivers of IG using econometric analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and case studies. The various chapters of this book make distinct historical, theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions and further our understanding of a phenomenon which remains underexamined and inadequately understood"--

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