A sound understanding of poverty traps—defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to
the poor's equilibrium behaviors—and their underlying mechanisms is fundamentally …

Understanding the contribution of forests to poverty alleviation and human well-being has
never been more important. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are erasing gains in …

Asset, activity and income diversification lie at the heart of livelihood strategies in rural
Africa. This paper introduces a special issue on the topic “Income Diversification and …

Longitudinal data on household living standards open the way to a deeper analysis of the
nature and extent of poverty. While a number of studies have exploited this type of data to …

Ownership of assets is important for poverty reduction, and women's control of assets is
associated with positive development outcomes at the household and individual levels. This …

This paper provides a meaning for the term chronic poverty “in a nutshell” and explores the
concepts of poverty, vulnerability and poverty dynamics that underpin this meaning …

The moral and economic imperatives to intervene in poverty traps motivate the identification
of poverty traps and their structural causes so as to inform the design of appropriate policy …

This paper addresses one of the major challenges in rural livelihood analysis to
quantitatively examine the dynamics of household livelihood strategies. It investigates the …

We use herd history data collected among pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to study
stochastic wealth dynamics among a poor population. Although covariate rainfall shocks …

Recent theoretical work hypothesises that a polarised society like South Africa will suffer a
legacy of ineffective social capital and blocked pathways of upward mobility that leaves …