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Publications [#270063] of Anirudh Krishna

Journal Articles

1. Krishna, A, Who became poor, who escaped poverty, and why? Developing and using a retrospective methodology in five countries, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 29 no. 2 (March, 2010), pp. 351-372, WILEY, ISSN 0276-8739 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/18)

   Abstract:
   The Stages-of-Progress methodology helps identify context-specific reasons associated with households' movements into or out of poverty. Developed in 2002, it was used over the next seven years for examining the experiences of 35,567 households in 398 diverse communities of India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, and North Carolina. This essay looks at the reasons that motivated the development of a different methodology for exploring poverty flows, explores the steps involved, and briefly presents key results. Large numbers of households have fallen into poverty in every context examined, but large numbers have also become persistently poor. Different reasons are associated, respectively, with escaping poverty and falling into poverty. Different policies are, therefore, required to deal with each of the two poverty flows. © 2010 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.