A sound understanding of poverty traps—defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to
the poor's equilibrium behaviors—and their underlying mechanisms is fundamentally …

There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in
fundamentals, such as ability, talent, or motivation. The poverty traps view emphasizes …

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

A “poverty trap” can be understood as a set of self-reinforcing mechanisms whereby
countries start poor and remain poor: poverty begets poverty, so that current poverty is itself …

Ownership of assets is important for poverty reduction, and women's control of assets is
associated with positive development outcomes at the household and individual levels. This …

The moral and economic imperatives to intervene in poverty traps motivate the identification
of poverty traps and their structural causes so as to inform the design of appropriate policy …

Despite significant spending on 'resilience'by international development agencies, no theory-
based method for estimating or measuring development resilience has yet been developed …

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the existence of poverty traps, understood as
self-reinforcing mechanisms through which poor individuals or countries remain poor …

The rapid rise in inequality is often seen to go in-hand with resource overuse. Examples
include water extraction in Pakistan, land degradation in Bangladesh, forest harvesting in …

Although identifying household-level poverty dynamics would have important implications
for poverty reduction policies empirical evidence is still scant. This paper employs a novel …