Description

The book “Deprived - Chronic Poverty:A Gender Perspective” is the outcome of continuous discourse between the plight of women’s oppression, subjugation, deprivation, exclusion resulting poverty and the strong intent to understand in-depth the root cause and to find a solution to up-root the cause. This book reveals the hopes and despair of women in poverty, the burden of challenges of being poor in patriarchal society and also to establish multiple linkages between women’s disempowerment andchronic poverty. Her research work on inter-generational transmission of poverty resulting in the impoverishment of their children is extensive piece of work for policy making. Itis recognised that by removing barriers of deprivations and bridging the awareness gaps in different domains of life will bring perceptible difference in the lives of poor.The Author also recommends various measures which can generate the forces such as “Anti-drivers, Anti-maintainers and Active-interrupters” which will addressthe challenges of women’s empowerment across countries. Moreover, it touches upon unaddressed multi-dimensional grievances of persistent and abject poverty which is getting transferred from older generation to the younger ones.sddsd

About Author

Uma Nijhawan has been associated with teaching since 1983 and presently working as Assistant Professor in Bhagini ­Nivedita College (University of Delhi). She is an M.A in Economics from Kurukshetra University & Ph.D in Economics from IGNOU, Delhi. The topic of research was “An Evaluation of Gender Resource Centre from Perspective of Chronic Poverty in Delhi”. Following are her publications in reputed journals: Chronic poverty: Inter-generational Transmission of Poverty through lack of Transfer of Resources for Investments on Children. Journal of Administrative Reforms, Management in Government. XLV (2):35-56(2013). Assessment of Significant Changes in Different Dimensions of Women’s Lives through Gender Resource Centre. International Journal of Management and Technology Research. 2(2): 9-14(2013). She is also undertaking contemporary issues pertaining to economics. Dr. Uma is also a Novelist, Poet & Painter

Table of Content

1. List of figures
2. List of Tables
3. Acronyms and Abbreviations xi
4. Glossary xiii Editor's Note xv
5. Foreword xvii Preface xx
6. Chronic Poverty 1
7. Inter-generational Transmission of Poverty 15
8. The Impact of Capacity Building on Child Poverty 35
9. Women’s Empowerment 45
10. Research Methodology 85
11. Simultaneous Vulnerabilities and Children 108
12. Measuring Women’s Empowerment and well-being of Children 128
13. Changed Dimensions of Women’s Lives and Perceptions 157
14. Limited Impact of Intervention on chronic poverty 181
15. Anti-Drivers, Anti-Maintainers and Active-Interrupters’ to Chronic Poverty 200
16. Notes 211
17. Bibliography 220
18. Annexure 237