Citation
Moore, Karen (2004). Chronic, Life-Course and Intergenerational Poverty, and South-East Asian Youth.Abstract
This paper draws upon work by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre to argue that the related concepts of chronic poverty ,life-course poverty and intergenerational poverty are useful to understanding youth poverty. This is because the poverty experienced by youth is often linked to childhood deprivation and parental poverty, and – like poverty in childhood or in old age – it can have implications across an individual’s life-course, and that of her or his household. The paper draws upon evidence from six South-East Asian countries to explore these linkages. Estimates of youth in extreme poverty in South-East Asia are presented, based on a new child-centred approach to estimating childhood deprivation recently developed by Gordon et al (2003).