Poverty trap models are dynamical systems with more than one attractor. Similar dynamical systems arise in optimal …

, or violence. We provide a model to discuss the implications for the emergence of poverty traps. …

This article concerns the need to define poverty in a way to be relevant to the context it is to refer, to be … socioeconomic situations and analyses the two approaches to poverty - basic needs and income (or poverty line) - in what concerns … their advantages and shortcomings. It highlights how perverse the generalization of the use of the poverty line approach can …