This paper explores the role social network capital might play in facilitating poor agents' escape from poverty traps … poverty. However, the voluntary nature of costly social network formation also creates both involuntary and voluntary … exclusionary mechanisms that impede some poor households' exit from poverty. Through numerical simulation, we show that the …

effects on poverty reduction, it is important to first study trends in the allocation of funds, particularly as they relate to …

The paper explores the role social network capital might play in facilitating poor agents’ escape from poverty traps … complement to or a substitute for productive assets in facilitating some poor households’ escape from poverty. However, the … impede some poor households’ efforts to exit poverty. The ameliorative potential of social networks therefore depends …

intertemporal economic mobility and thus inferred that a large proportion of poverty is transitory. This article introduces a … across the poverty line that cancel out over periods of multiple years …

then be overlaid with traditional poverty maps to identify areas that are strong candidates for a particular development …

effects on poverty reduction, it is important to first study trends in the allocation of funds, particularly as they relate to …