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Author Profile

Dr. 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 Perspective of Chronic Poverty in Delhi”. She has published articles on gender, poverty policy making, and other contemporary issues in reputed national and international research journals. She is also undertaking contemporary issues pertaining to economics. Dr. Uma is also a Novelist, Poet & Painter by passion.

About The Book

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 uproot 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 and chronic poverty. Her research work on intergenerational transmission of poverty resulting in the impoverishment of their children is extensive piece of work for policy making. It is 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 address the 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.

Table of Contents

List of figures List of Tables Acronyms and Abbreviations Glossary Editor's Note Foreword Preface 1 Chronic Poverty 2 Inter-generational Transmission of Poverty 3 The Impact of Capacity Building on Child Poverty 4 Women’s Empowerment 5 Research Methodology 6 Simultaneous Vulnerabilities and Children 7 Measuring Women’s Empowerment and well-being of Children 8 Changed Dimensions of Women’s Lives and Perceptions 9 Limited Impact of Intervention on chronic poverty 10 ‘Anti-Drivers, Anti-Maintainers and Active-Interrupters’ to Chronic Poverty 11 Notes 12 Bibliography 13 Annexure