, whether poverty experiences can be detrimental to these traits later on. The former relation is intuitive as control related … traits underlay many idiosyncratic determinants of poverty. Though traits like control-perception are known to stabilize … environmental influences like poverty. Such deterioration of control-perception would lead to poor people being literally "trapped …

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty … poverty gradient from rural to town to city will exist as an equilibrium phenomenon. We then address the policy question and … show how the answer depends on the migration response, where the poverty line lies relative to incomes in the three …