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SUMMARY:ZEF public lecture: poverty and livelihood choices
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DESCRIPTION:Aspirations - the forward-looking goals individuals set for th
 eir lives - have been increasingly considered as a concept for understandi
 ng poverty persistence and livelihood decisions in developing countries. T
 his presentation asks what we have learned from employing this concept and
  what further potential it has for better understanding poverty mechanisms
  and for designing relevant interventions. Drawing on the literature and m
 y group’s research\, I review the conceptual foundations of the aspirati
 ons framework\, discuss how aspirations are formed (and possibly eroded)\,
  and examine their role in productive efforts and livelihood choices. Evid
 ence shows that moderately ambitious aspirations motivate effort to improv
 e livelihoods\, while aspirations far removed from current reality can lea
 d to frustration and inaction. Consequences for designing helpful interven
 tions\, however\, are not immediately clear or seem to differ little from 
 what has been suggested based on other types of analysis.
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URL:https://www.zef.de/news-press/events/zef-public-lecture-poverty-and-li
 velihood-choices
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