Poverty has been a major crisis in the world and in particular in African continents where it has camped for a long time. One view for the increment of poverty is poor policy. For this reason, many scholars have done research and came up with a different solution to act as a remedy to these situations, one such individual is Anirudh Krishna. Krishna view poverty in two distinct perspectives (Kristjanson et al ., 2010). He looks at those who fall into poverty and those who escape poverty. He claims that as some people escape from poverty in a country, a good percentage fall into poverty (Krishna, 2004). His main complaint is that fall into poverty and escapes from poverty are caused by two different factors. For this reason, the two cannot be solved by viewing them as one; they have to be distinguished and solved separately (Krishna, 2011). He suggests that getting the net change in poverty that is subtracting those who fall into poverty from that escape from poverty, which is often used by policy makers may not be a real solution to poverty. He, therefore, suggests that the poverty statistical data should be disintegrated by escape from poverty and by a decline in poverty; the integration should also be done at the regional level and solved separately (Krishna et al., 2006).
However, this view can be advanced by Ferguson’s view on poverty. Ferguson proposed a view where there can be a distributive political framework where ubiquity and centrality distributive process is recognized. These are inclusive of sharing, gifting, claim making and many others to the poor individuals. Application of this policy can reinforce Krishna's view of analyzing both falls and escape from poverty. For instance, after analyzing the fall and the escape from poverty, the distributives claims of the poor and socially marginalized groups can be given equally as per the needs of this individual separately (Ferguson, 2015).
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References
Ferguson, J., 2015. Give a man a fish: Reflections on the new politics of distribution . Duke University Press.
Krishna, A., 2004. Escaping poverty and becoming poor: who gains, who loses, and why?. World development , 32 (1), pp.121-136.
Krishna, A., 2011. One illness away: Why people become poor and how they escape poverty . Oxford University Press.
Krishna, A., Lumonya, D., Markiewicz, M., Mugumya, F., Kafuko, A. and Wegoye, J., 2006. Escaping poverty and becoming poor in 36 villages of Central and Western Uganda. The Journal of Development Studies , 42 (2), pp.346-370.
Kristjanson, P., Mango, N., Krishna, A., Radeny, M. and Johnson, N., 2010. Understanding poverty dynamics in Kenya. Journal of international development , 22 (7), pp.978-996.
