Aspirations, poverty, and economic change
Resource type
Book Section
Author/contributor
- Ray, Debraj (Author)
Title
Aspirations, poverty, and economic change
Abstract
This essay discusses a particular aspect of poverty: its close and brutal association with a failure of aspirations. This is not an assertion about individuals who are poor; it is a statement about the condition of poverty itself. Poverty stifles dreams, or at least the process of attaining dreams. Thus, poverty and the failure of aspirations may be reciprocally linked in a self-sustaining trap. This essay seeks to draw out various aspects of this theme and, in the process, to introduce and discuss an aspirations-based view of individual behavior.
Book Title
Understanding Poverty
Place
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date
2006
Pages
409-422
Language
eng
ISBN
978-0-19-530519-7
Accessed
04/03/2022, 15:06
Library Catalogue
University Press Scholarship
Extra
Citation
Ray, D. (2006). Aspirations, poverty, and economic change. In Understanding Poverty (pp. 409–422). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/0195305191.003.0028
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