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their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the world have led many …Main description: Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in … economists to seriously question the model of individual economic self-determination when it comes to the poor. In Poverty Traps …