This paper explores the role social network capital might play in facilitating poor agents' escape from poverty traps … poverty. However, the voluntary nature of costly social network formation also creates both involuntary and voluntary … exclusionary mechanisms that impede some poor households' exit from poverty. Through numerical simulation, we show that the …

This paper inscribes itself in the logic of debates on the policies of poverty reduction which have been taking place … for a decade now. The author evaluates the influence of social religious capital on the poverty of households in Cameroon … the author makes use of three different models to estimate three indicators - of monetary poverty, of poverty of living …

the cheaper product is in their consumption basket. These welfare gains through consumption, on average, are found to be …

participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … index increases the probability of salaried employment by 6.5 percentage points, and leads to a 9.5 percent higher per … capita expenditure. Employment transitions happen from daily wage employment and self-employment to salaried employment. The …