productive safety net below the vulnerable and keeps them from slipping into a poverty trap. Much of the value of the productive … explores the implications of different mechanisms of targeting social protection transfers. In the presence of poverty traps …, modestly regressive targeting based on critical asset thresholds may have better long-run poverty reduction effects than …

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

The authors provide new evidence on the extent to which absolute poverty has urbanized in the developing world, and the … role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction. They find that one-quarter of the world … helped reduce absolute poverty in the aggregate but did little for urban poverty. Over 1993-2002, the count of the …

poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a … is less capital intensive (as capital flows to the informal sectors). This helps in understanding trends in urban poverty … given the strong association between the urban informal wage and degree of urban poverty. …