Fractal Poverty Traps

By Christopher B. Barrett, B. Swallow. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Modeling and Simulation, Sociology and Political Science

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Making Investments in Dryland Development Work: Participatory Scenario Planning in the Makanya Catchment, Tanzania (2008, background): “Thus, to reduce the risk for maladaptation, relevant investments have to be coordinated across scales (cf. Barrett and Swallow 2006).”
Well-Being Dynamics and Poverty Traps (2016, background): “Poverty traps can also arise as a mutually reinforcing combination of all three scales in what has been dubbed a fractal poverty trap (Barrett & Swallow 2006).”
Exploring Strategies that Build Livelihood Resilience: a Case from Cambodia (2006, background): “Such poverty traps (Barrett and Swallow 2006) can be very resilient.”
Linking development to climate adaptation: Leveraging generic and specific capacities to reduce vulnerability to drought in NE Brazil (2016, background): “As a result, such households may not have the ability to transform their circumstances in response to unprecedented socioenvironmental change, falling into a virtual ‘trap’ of stress and coping from which it is very hard to get out (Maru et al., 2012; Barrett and Swallow, 2006).”
Poverty Traps and Climate Risk: Limitations and Opportunities of Index-Based Risk Financing (2007, background): “In the economics literature, there exist multiple sorts of poverty traps associated with different mechanisms by which these might emerge (for details, see Barrett and Swallow 2006; Bowles, Durlauf, and Hoff 2006; Carter and Barrett 2006; Azariadis and Stachurski, forthcoming).”
Innovations in Climate Risk Management: Protecting and Building Rural Livelihoods in a Variable and Changing Climate (2007, background): “Subsequent sections discuss three such avenues for managing climate risk for agriculture and food security.”
Welfare dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar (2006, background): “– or what Carter and May (2001) or Carter and Barrett (2004) term “structural income” – is therefore just E{Yit} = Ait`rit(Ait) + Ui (3) Assets vary in importance among households.”
Dealing with drought : The challenge of using water system technologies to break dryland poverty traps (2008, background): “It has previously been suggested that one reason that households have difficulties escaping persistent poverty is that multiple dynamic welfare equilibria can exist simultaneously on multiple scales, a phenomenon referred to as fractal poverty traps (Barrett and Swallow, 2006).”
Traps and Sustainable Development in Rural Areas: A Review (2018, background): “…of persistent—versus transient—poverty (Jalan & Ravallion, 1998; Hulme, 2003), and the resulting alleviation strategies, often rely on the concept of poverty traps (Azariadis & Stachurski, 2004; Barrett & Carter, 2013; Barrett & Swallow, 2006; Bowles, Durlauf, & Hoff, 2006; Carter & Barrett, 2006).”