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 … hybrid social protection policy, which devotes resources to funding “state of the world contingent transfers” (SWCTs) to …

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 … hybrid social protection policy, which devotes resources to funding "state of the world contingent transfers" (SWCTs) to …

A sound understanding of poverty traps — defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to the poor's equilibrium … poverty traps at the macro-, meso-, and, especially, microlevels. In addition we review the literature exploring the various … mechanisms that have been posited to perpetuate poverty. We find sufficient evidence to support the poverty traps hypothesis …

create and perpetuate vulnerability. We then consider the related micro-level poverty traps that emerging analysis attributes …

poor - the connection between debt forgiveness and poverty reduction is loose at best. As I have argued previously, the … case for debt forgiveness for the world's poorest countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, remains both …

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 …