We use a demo-economic model to examine the question of whether climate change could widen or deepen poverty traps. The … infant mortality; both are sensitive to weather and climate. There may thus be a climate-related poverty trap where climate … change increases disease burdens that reinforce poverty. We estimate finite-mixture models of per capita income, fertility …

This paper provides updated estimates for the scale of fuel poverty in the Republic of Ireland using two measures: one … results as to the characteristics of households most vulnerable to fuel poverty, examines the potential effects of future fuel …

model has two potential poverty traps – a climate-change-induced one and a civil-war-induced one – and the two poverty traps … baseline, and thus assume rapid economic growth in Africa and convergence of African living standards to the rest of the world … Africa in deep poverty with a high probability. Other countries enjoy exponential growth; and some countries may either be …