ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the forces behind household success through a respective exploration of income allocation, investment and consumption behaviour. It focuses on overt and covert mechanisms of income allocation in order to understand the extent to which respondent households were able to avoid secondary poverty. It also begins with an analysis of the ways in which income is managed, distributed and controlled within the household and explores women's secret kitties. The chapter focuses on the process of gecekondu acquisition to assess validity of findings from a recent Turkish poverty study and explores the role of clientelist relationships in this particular process. It explores the type of resources used in non-and-semi-commodified consumption in order to understand their implications for deprivation. The analysis of investment behaviour revealed a tendency for households to own assets with a low capacity to promote asset accumulation, generate income, and/or ensure future security.
