Hanging In, Stepping up and Stepping Out: Livelihood Aspirations and Strategies of the Poor Development in Practice

Main author: Dorward, Andrew
Other authors: Anderson, Simon
Nava Bernal, Yolanda
Pattison, J.
Paz, R.
Rushton, Jonathan
Sanchez Vera, E.
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description In recent years understanding of poverty and of ways in which people escape from or fall into poverty has become more holistic. This should improve the capabilities of policy analysts and others working to reduce poverty, but it also makes analysis more complex. This paper describes a simple schema which integrates multidimensional, multilevel and dynamic understandings of poverty, of poor people’s livelihoods, and of changing roles of agricultural systems. The paper suggests three broad types of strategy pursued by poor people: ‘hanging in’; ‘stepping up’; and ‘stepping out’. This simple schema explicitly recognises the dynamic aspirations of poor people; diversity among them; and livelihood diversification. It also brings together aspirations of poor people with wider sectoral, inter-sectoral and macro-economic questions about policies necessary for realisation of those aspirations.
format Journal Article
author Dorward, Andrew
author_facet Dorward, Andrew
Anderson, Simon
Nava Bernal, Yolanda
Pattison, J.
Paz, R.
Rushton, Jonathan
Sanchez Vera, E.
authorStr Dorward, Andrew
author_letter Dorward, Andrew
author2 Anderson, Simon
Nava Bernal, Yolanda
Pattison, J.
Paz, R.
Rushton, Jonathan
Sanchez Vera, E.
author2Str Anderson, Simon
Nava Bernal, Yolanda
Pattison, J.
Paz, R.
Rushton, Jonathan
Sanchez Vera, E.
title Hanging In, Stepping up and Stepping Out: Livelihood Aspirations and Strategies of the Poor Development in Practice
publisher Taylor and Francis
publishDate 2009
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/6163/