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What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of policies and projects intended to reduce poverty. Yet a major challenge analysts and policymakers face in understanding poverty traps is the sheer number of mechanisms--not just financial, but also environmental, physical, and psychological--that may contribute to the persistence of poverty all over the world. The research in ...

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    • Title: The Economics of Poverty Traps by Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, And Jean-Paul Chavas
    • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
    • Print ISBN: 9780226574301, 022657430X
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    • Edition: 2018
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