Tag: Poverty Traps
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“Aspirations and Investments in Rural Myanmar”—Forthcoming
In 2014, while I was completing my M.S. degree at MSU, I worked as a research assistant on a data collection project in Mon State Myanmar. As part of this work, I designed a module to be included in a larger household survey that aimed to measure the hopes and aspirations of respondents. That initial…
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Did economists fail us over Brexit? The Economics That Really Matters blog Recaps a NBER conference on asset accumulation and poverty traps with follow up interviews Can Hillary Clinton’s Faith Help Her Lead a Fractured Nation? Climate Change is Making it Too Hot To Work The inequality crisis is truly global, and while fixes aren’t easy,…
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Towards a Psychology of Poverty Traps
One concern that comes with considering depression or aspirational thinking as poverty trap mechanisms is the possibility this opens up for one to blame the poor for the situations in which they find themselves; i.e. it is tempting to shift from considering the poor as trapped by outside constraints (such as market failures) to considering…
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Poverty Traps, Real or Imagined?
This past week in my class on Agriculture in Economic Development (taught by Dr. Nicky Mason and Dr. Saweda Liverpool-Tasie) I presented Michelle Adato, Michael Carter, and Julian May’s 2006 paper on poverty traps and social exclusion in South Africa (sorry, it’s gated, but my slides are here) published in The Journal of Development Studies. As part…
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Poverty Fault Lines: Towards an Understanding Persistent Poverty
Some of the biggest (and perhaps most meaningless) news is in the cycle again. In late September the world leaders signed an ambitious pledge to “eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere by 2030”. Next, the World Bank “moved the goalposts” by increasing the global poverty line from $1.25 per day to $1.90 per day.…
Jeffrey R. Bloem 