Spatial poverty traps: an overview - ODI Working Papers 321.
Theories of Poverty Traps and Anti-Poverty Policies Maitreesh Ghatak London School of Economics December, 2014. Abstract In this paper we provide a conceptual overview of alternative mechanisms leading to poverty traps at the individual level, making a distinction between those that are due to external frictions (e.g., market failure), and those that are due to behaviour under extreme scarcity.
Poverty and Environment Linkages in Mountains and Uplands: Reflections on the 'Poverty Trap' Thesis Sanjeev Prakash CREED Working Paper No 12 February 1997. Sanjeev Prakash is Visiting Professor, Studies of Science, Technology and the Global Environment, Cornell University, NY, USA, and Associate Fellow, the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam He may be contacted at: G-11 Saket New Delhi 110017.
While the traditional poverty trap with adverse effect of poverty on education has been well-known, the new role of education as a cause of poverty should attract more attention in academic research and policy formulation in China. This paper addresses both poverty traps that coexist in contemporary China.
Research output: Working paper. Abstract. Low growth equilibria with low investment in human capital generally tend to persist till an external shock affects the economy. In this paper we use data on Christian missions to proxy a long-lasting educational shock in Africa. We estimate the effect of this shock on the quality of children which we proxy using the rate of underweight children.
The central premise of the poverty trap thesis claims that there is a mutual and spiralling relationship between poverty and environmental degradation. The argument maintains that, mainly due to inherent short time horizons and risk, poverty encourages overexploitation of the physical environment which results in further impoverishment. Using both conceptual and empirical material, this paper.
This paper considers a risk poverty trap model in which technology adoption depends on the individual’s capital level. Agricultural insurance and premium subsidies are then introduced to analyse.
Helping poor households escape the fuel poverty trap; Impact case. praised Hills for the “considerable insight” he had brought to the issue of fuel poverty. The paper concurred with Hills’ assessment of the weaknesses of the current official definition and with the “low income high costs” framework as a better approach to understanding fuel poverty, indicating its intention to.