incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …

Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …

a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located downstream from … the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … implications, and has, in aggregate, increased poverty …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …