, talent or motivation. The other, the poverty traps view, differences in opportunities which stem from access to wealth. To … who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps … (from casual labor in agriculture or domestic services to running small livestock businesses) and grow out of poverty. The …

Purpose – This paper's purpose is to examine the nature and correlates of poverty in Ghana. Design …/methodology/approach – Using the most recently published household living standards survey; the paper computes poverty indicators using the Foster … et al., and Theil's inequality indicators to examine the nature of poverty. It also does a qualitative analysis on the …