Extending the Resource-Based Approach to Livelihoods

An Urban Application toTurkishGecekonduHouseholds

Bibliographic Data

ID4383595
AuthorsEroglu (0000-0001-9065-1015, Department of Sociology University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ UK, corresponding author), Şebnem Eroğlu
Year2013
Volume37
Issue2
Pages769-789
Publication date2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2427.2013.01205.x
OpenAlexW1548395386
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited67

This article critically examines the existing conceptualizations of and explanations for the socioeconomic behaviour of poor households in order to lay the foundations of a new model designed to extend the existing resource-based approach to livelihoods. The proposed model groups 'household responses to poverty' into four key types: income generation, income allocation, consumption and investment. In explaining household responses and their poverty outcomes, it focuses on the role of different resources beyond income (e.g. social capital), along with the wider structural forces and household characteristics that influence the availability and benefit delivery capacity of these resources. The new model is shown to provide a theoretically more sophisticated framework with greater explanatory power and empirical applicability

Agriculture · Economic growth · Economics · Explanatory power · Geography · Household income · Livelihood · Market economy · Microeconomics · Political science · Poverty · Public economics · Resource allocation · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Computer Science · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Finance

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