poverty traps. We simulate household-specific wealth dynamics based on a model parameterized using rich panel and experimental … poverty trap gives rise to insurance valuation that is highly nonlinear in individual herd size. Willingness to pay among … premiums appears to offer more cost-effective poverty reduction than direct transfers to the poor …

This paper introduces a special feature on biodiversity conservation and poverty traps. We define and explain the core … poverty. The multiplicity of candidate mechanisms underscores a major challenge in designing policy appropriate across … mechanisms linking poverty traps and biodiversity conservation …

The moral and economic imperatives to intervene in poverty traps motivate the identification of poverty traps and their … challenging because of poverty traps' complexity. After reviewing mechanisms that can generate poverty traps, we focus on one … behaviours that are rational only in the presence of a poverty trap. We therefore recommend tests for these behaviours rather …

to explain persistent poverty, often characterized as poverty traps, but these rarely account for complex biophysical … the complex dynamics that underlie the generation and maintenance of poverty traps, which can then be used to inform … infectious diseases and economic growth, where poverty traps emerge from nonlinear relationships determined by the number of …

This paper explores the role social network capital might play in facilitating poor agents' escape from poverty traps … poverty. However, the voluntary nature of costly social network formation also creates both involuntary and voluntary … exclusionary mechanisms that impede some poor households' exit from poverty. Through numerical simulation, we show that the …

This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of …

This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of …