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Compare the capability deprivation approach with that of social capital deprivation in understanding chronic poverty.

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  • Stratification and Mobility

Chronic poverty is deprivation that lasts for a long time, often across generations. David Hulme and Andrew Shepherd ("Conceptualizing Chronic Poverty", 2003) put the threshold at about five years or more. The puzzle is why some people stay poor. The capability approach finds the answer in what people are unable to be and do. The…

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  • Capability deprivation
  • Social capital deprivation
  • Criteria-wise comparison
  • What the comparison reveals
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