For Reducing Poverty Faster: Target Reasons Before People

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Poverty Traps and Climate Risk: Limitations and Opportunities of Index-Based Risk Financing (2007, background): “…transmission compound the losses and precipitate Working Paper Poverty Traps and Climate Risk: Limitations and Opportunit ies of Index-Based Risk Financing 4 human health shocks that are especially strongly associated with long-term collapse into poverty (Gertler and Gruber 2000; Krishna 2006).”
Quantifying rural livelihood strategies in developing countries using an activity choice approach (2013, background): “As also noted by Krishna (2007), income diversification is the most frequently mentioned reason for rural households escaping poverty.”
Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to global environmental change: challenges and pathways for an action-oriented research agenda for middle-income and low-income countries (2010, background): “Future research should learn from existing analyses of the failures of development to alleviate poverty, and approach poverty as a complex, multifaceted and multirooted problem [52,53,54 ].”
Poverty Traps and Index Based Risk Transfer Products (2008, unknown): “By contrast, shocks that push people below the threshold can set them onto a downward spiral into destitution (a low-level equilibrium) from which they do not recover, or keep them from growing their way out of persistent poverty by regularly knocking them backwards as they struggle to climb out of ”