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The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: An Asset-Based Approach

by Michael R. Carter, Christopher B. Barrett - Journal of Development Studies , 2006
"... Longitudinal data on household living standards open the way to a deeper analysis of the nature and extent of poverty. While a number of studies have exploited this type of data to distinguish transitory from more chronic forms of income or expenditure poverty, this paper develops an asset-based app ..."
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-based approach to poverty analysis that makes it possible to distinguish deep-rooted, persistent structural poverty from poverty that passes naturally with time due to systemic growth processes. Drawing on the economic theory of poverty traps and bifurcated accumulation strategies, this paper briefly discusses

The Evolutionary Game of Poverty Traps

by Università Degli, Studi Di Siena, Di Economia Politica, Edgar J. Sanchez Carrera, N. Febbraio
"... Abstract- We study an evolutionary game in which the individual behavior of the economic agents can lead the economy either into a low-level or a high-level equilibrium. The model represents two asymmetric populations, “leaders and followers”, where in each round an economic agent of population 1 is ..."
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-confirming and evolutionarily stable strategies. Furthermore, considering an imitative behavior of the followers, we show that to overcome the poverty trap there exists a threshold value equals to the ratio "education costs-efficiency wages " of the number of high-profile economic agents.

1 Notes on Poverty Traps and Appalachia

by Steven N. Durlauf , 2009
"... In these notes, I provide some general ideas on how to conceptualize poverty traps and speculate on their applicability to understanding Appalachian poverty. My goal is to stimulate thinking on Appalachia that exploits contemporary perspectives in economics on the sources of persistent poverty and i ..."
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In these notes, I provide some general ideas on how to conceptualize poverty traps and speculate on their applicability to understanding Appalachian poverty. My goal is to stimulate thinking on Appalachia that exploits contemporary perspectives in economics on the sources of persistent poverty

Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China

by John Knight, Li Shi, Deng Quheng
"... Abstract: This is an ambitious attempt to view the relationships involving education and income as forming a system, and one that can generate a poverty trap. The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with research hypotheses in mind. Enrolment ..."
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Abstract: This is an ambitious attempt to view the relationships involving education and income as forming a system, and one that can generate a poverty trap. The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with research hypotheses in mind. Enrolment

The poverty trap with high fertility rates

by Noriyoshi Hemmi
"... The aim of this paper is to clarify the causes of the poverty trap resulting from a negative correlation between income and fertility, in a manner that is consistent with the data across and within countries. This paper points out that a higher fertility rate is the cause of the poverty trap, becaus ..."
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The aim of this paper is to clarify the causes of the poverty trap resulting from a negative correlation between income and fertility, in a manner that is consistent with the data across and within countries. This paper points out that a higher fertility rate is the cause of the poverty trap

Protective Capital and Poverty Traps

by Ali Saedvandi
"... We investigate a protective role for capital and the implications on poverty reduction policies. Within the framework of an overlapping generations model, the accumulation of tax-funded ‘protective capital ’ increases the survival probability of productive capital from disastrous events. Key finding ..."
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We investigate a protective role for capital and the implications on poverty reduction policies. Within the framework of an overlapping generations model, the accumulation of tax-funded ‘protective capital ’ increases the survival probability of productive capital from disastrous events. Key

Spatial poverty traps

by An Overview, Kate Bird, Kate Higgins, Dan Harris, An Overview, Kate Bird, Kate Higgins, Dan Harris , 2010
"... Results of ODI research presented in preliminary form for discussion and critical comment ..."
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Results of ODI research presented in preliminary form for discussion and critical comment

PRESENCE OF A POVERTY TRAP

by Sommarat Chantarat, Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett, Calum G. Turvey , 2009
"... Nairobi, Kenya, for their helpful comments. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the World Bank. Any remaining errors are the authors’ ..."
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Nairobi, Kenya, for their helpful comments. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the World Bank. Any remaining errors are the authors’

An empirical test of the poverty traps hypothesis

by Francisco Rodríguez, Francisco Rodríguez - International Poverty Centre. United Nations Development Programme. Technical Paper
"... disclaimer applies. Abstract: This paper presents an empirical test of a subclass of poverty traps hypotheses. The test is based on the observation that the nonconvexities in the production function necessary to generate multiple equilibria need only be present in the region between the equilibria. ..."
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disclaimer applies. Abstract: This paper presents an empirical test of a subclass of poverty traps hypotheses. The test is based on the observation that the nonconvexities in the production function necessary to generate multiple equilibria need only be present in the region between the equilibria

Heterogeneous Firms, Productivity and Poverty Traps

by Levon Barseghyan, Riccardo Dicecio, Paco Buera, Jim Bullard, Steve Durlauf, Nir Jaimovich, Per Krusell, Francesca Molinari, Karl Shell, Assaf Razin, Richard Rogerson, Gustavo Ventura, Ivan Werning , 2006
"... We present a model of endogenous total factor productivity which generates poverty traps. We obtain multiple steady state equilibria for an arbitrarily small degree of increasing returns to scale. While the most productive …rms operate across all the steady states, in a poverty trap less productive ..."
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We present a model of endogenous total factor productivity which generates poverty traps. We obtain multiple steady state equilibria for an arbitrarily small degree of increasing returns to scale. While the most productive …rms operate across all the steady states, in a poverty trap less productive
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