Poverty Traps and Safety Nets

By Christopher B. Barrett, John Mcpeak. 2006

133 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9ab595f5da09f198dfe5de64eb9824e2eba62601

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

In Sociology and Political Science

In Soil Science

Citations in the corpus

Are Fishers Poor or Vulnerable? Assessing Economic Vulnerability in Small-Scale Fishing Communities (2009, background): “…these risks (drought, flood, disease epidemics) poor households in RRAs are exposed to inter-linked shocks which can deepen and prolong their poverty, leading to spatial poverty traps and chronic poverty (Bird and Shepherd, 2003; Barrett, 2005; Barrett and McPeak, 2005; Carter and Barrett, 2006).”
Shocks and their consequences across and within households in Rural Zimbabwe (2006, background): “Dercon and Hoddinott (2004) and Barrett and McPeak (2005) review dimensions of this literature, with Barrett and McPeak (2005) noting that the microeconometric evidence of poverty traps validates the hypotheses of Myrdal, Rosenstein-Rodan and others that different income-growth trajectories may ar”
Poverty Traps and Index Based Risk Transfer Products (2008, unknown): “…programs to the poorest of the poor—as the term is sometimes used—but rather to protect productive assets of those who might otherwise fall below the critical threshold and thereby fall onto a decumulation path towards destitution (Barrett & Maxwell, 2005; Barrett & McPeak, 2005; Dercon, 2005).”
Addressing Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Toward a 'No Regrets' Approach (2009, unknown): “This can give rise to asset-based poverty traps (Carter and Zimmerman, 2000; Barrett and McPeak, 2004).”
Innovations in Index Insurance for the Poor in Lower Income Countries (2008, background): “In the economic development literature, there is increasing recognition that the lack of rural financial markets for the poor is one reason so many poor are locked into poverty [Anderson 2002, Barnett, Barrett, and Skees (forthcoming), Barrett and McPeak 2005, and Carter et al. 2005].”
Vulnerability, Adaptation and Climate Disasters: A Conceptual Overview (2005, background): “One implication is that poverty reduction efforts should be supplemented with a broader range of instruments to remove noneconomic risks that make people vulnerable to poverty as suggested by many studies (Devereux and Sabates-Wheeler 2004; Wisner et al. 2004; Barrett and McPeak 2004; Hulme and Mc”
Pathways out of poverty in western Kenya and the role of livestock (2004, unknown): “Since going to the city is not equally open to all able, willing and even educated household members (see Krishna, 2004 and Barrett, 2003 for discussions of the required connections and networks often requisite for obtaining formal employment), improving returns from farming turns out to be an…”