Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries …. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …

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

combine to generate poverty traps—gleaned from behavioral, health, and resource economics as well as the sociology, psychology …, Jean-Paul -- I. Nutrition, Health, and Human Capital Formation -- 1 Human Capital and Shocks. Evidence on Education, Health …, and Nutrition / Frankenberg, Elizabeth / Thomas, Duncan -- 2. Poverty and Cognitive Function / Dean, Emma Boswell …