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Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps

Chantarat, Sommarat - 2014

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 …

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Estimating risk preferences in the presence of bifrucated wealth dynamics : can we identify static risk aversion amidst dynamic risk responses?

Lybbert, Travis J.; Just, David; Barrett, Christopher B. - In: European review of agricultural economics : ERAE 40 (2013) 2, pp. 361-377

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Heterogeneous wealth dynamics : on the roles of risk and ability

Santos, Paulo; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2016

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Well-being dynamics and poverty traps

Barrett, Christopher B.; Garg, Teevrat; McBride, Linden - 2016

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Poverty traps and the social protection paradox

Ikegami, Munenobu; Carter, Michael R.; Barrett, … - 2016

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The global politics of social protection

Hickey, Sam; Seekings, Jeremy - 2017

Since the early 2000s international development agencies have actively promoted social protection as a new global public policy. This process can be understood as flowing from related shifts within the global political economy and of development ideology, and involved international development...