长期贫困可以被看作是个体经历了5年或5年以上的能力剥夺。长期贫困具有人力资源发育缓慢、缺乏固定财产和脆弱等特征,经济、社会、政治和环境的因素是形成长期贫困最重要的四个方面。政策分析是长期贫困研究中的重要内容。和传统的贫困研究相比,长期贫困更关注贫困的动态分析以及人们随着时问摆脱(并且经秽返回)贫困的轨道。贫困传导与长期贫困的形成密切相关。
Chronic poverty is viewed as occurring when an individual experiences significant capability deprivations for a period of five years or more. Human capital growing slowly, lack of fixed property and vulnerability are eharaeteristies of the chronic poor. The four causes of the chronic are related to economy, society, politics and environment. The policy analysis is the important content of studying chronic poverty. In comparison with the traditional poverty, the chronic poverty pays more attention to the dynamic analysis and eradication of the poverty as time goes on. An important concept of the chronic poverty study is the generation conduction, i.e. the serious challenge to the economy development by the poverty phenomenon, which exists in one generation and will last several generations.