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 … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …

This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of …

Nutrition / Elizabeth Frankenberg and Duncan Thomas -- 2. Poverty and Cognitive Function / Emma Boswell Dean, Frank Schilbach …, and Heather Schofield -- Comment on Chapters 1 and 2: John Hoddinott -- II. Psychology of Poverty, Hope, and Aspirations … Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways: Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico / Travis J. Lybbert and Bruce Wydick …

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 … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …

This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of …

, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was steady but discouragingly slow. This paper argues that ending extreme … poverty will require structural change in agriculture, and in rural African economies more broadly. Drawing on a range of …

his paper introduces a special issue exploring persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a set, these papers break … new ground in exploring the dynamics of structural poverty, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis … on evolving conceptualisations of poverty in Africa …

This paper explores whether there exist differences in groupwise poverty in Madagascar; that is, whether there is a … existence of persistent differences in poverty across groups, relative differences in returns to education, land and remoteness … differences in groupwise poverty are associated with multiple different identities, some of which are offsetting and some of which …

We investigate the interactions between natural resource-based poverty traps and food security for smallholder farms in … characterize persistent poverty and food insecurity among smallholders in rural highland Kenya. We examine the effects of changing …