Poverty traps and resource degradation in the rural tropics appear to have multiple and complex, but similar, causes … empirically remains a challenge, however, but one essential to the design of appropriate interventions for reducing poverty and …

project in the world. Its most direct poverty reduction pathway is through boosting employment and income for the poor. How … effectively this direct transfer mechanism reduces poverty turns fundamentally on the degree to which MGNREGS targets its …

more nuanced relationship between poverty and non-farm income earnings than the existing literature recognizes …

vulnerability is the complex product of asset poverty, rudimentary food production technologies, weak markets and social support …

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

underscore the importance of liquidity, market access and skill constraints to skilled non-farm income sources to dynamic poverty …

poor - the connection between debt forgiveness and poverty reduction is loose at best. As I have argued previously, the … unconditional debt forgiveness,” but rather supports “highly conditioned, prudentially-managed debt forgiveness.” In the brief …-order importance. As appealing as the idea of debt forgiveness may be to the Christian - indeed to anyone espousing compassion for the …

poverty. This article reviews relevant threads of the poverty traps literature to motivate a description of the opportunities … market failures that contribute to the persistence of poverty among households in low-income countries. Applications are …