Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190162 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2018/115
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper examines the relationship between poverty dynamics, causal pluralism, and mixed method research approaches. It reviews the nature and significance of the shift from the analysis of poverty status to poverty dynamics, discusses different approaches to causal reasoning and causal inference in philosophy and the social sciences, and presents empirical examples of mixed method studies of poverty dynamics. It concludes with a case for causal pluralism and mixed methods on grounds that empirical validation/adjudication is imperfect, knowledge is partial, and many causal systems are inherently complex.
Subjects: 
poverty dynamics
causation
mixed methods
JEL: 
A12
B00
B41
I32
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ISBN: 
978-92-9256-557-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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