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The Economics of Poverty in Poor Countries

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  • Partha Dasgupta

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This paper examines the links that have recently been studied between poverty, high fertility and undernourishment, on the one hand, and degradation of the local environmental‐resource base and civic disconnection, on the other, in poor countries. An account is offered of a number of pathways involving positive feedbacks that create poverty traps, in which certain identifiable groups of people in an economy can get caught even when the economy in the aggregate experiences economic growth. The relevant policy implications are noted.

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  • Partha Dasgupta, 1998. "The Economics of Poverty in Poor Countries," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 100(1), pages 41-68, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:scandj:v:100:y:1998:i:1:p:41-68
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9442.00089
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    1. Aurora Teixeira & Pedro Vieira, 2005. "Escaping from poverty through compulsory schooling," Notas Económicas, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, issue 21, pages 6-15, June.
    2. Assa, Maganga, 2012. "Poultry production and rural poverty among small-scale farmers in Mzimba District of Malawi," MPRA Paper 43964, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Sep 2012.
    3. Dasgupta, Partha, 2000. "Reproductive externalities and fertility behaviour," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 44(4-6), pages 619-644, May.
    4. Alice FABRE & Emmanuelle AUGERAUD-VERON, 2004. "Education, Poverty and Child Labour," Econometric Society 2004 Far Eastern Meetings 738, Econometric Society.
    5. Sushanta K. Mallick, 2014. "Disentangling the Poverty Effects of Sectoral Output, Prices, and Policies in India," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 60(4), pages 773-801, December.
    6. Mark Partridge & Dan Rickman, 2005. "Why some US nonmetropolitan counties moved out of persistent high-poverty status in the 1990s," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(8), pages 473-478.
    7. Jonathan Kydd & Andrew Dorward & Jamie Morrison & Georg Cadisch, 2004. "Agricultural development and pro-poor economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: potential and policy," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(1), pages 37-57.
    8. Kevin Sylwester, 2004. "Simple Model of Resource Degradation and Agricultural Productivity in a Subsistence Economy," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 8(1), pages 128-140, February.
    9. Balkrishna Rao, 2014. "Alleviating Poverty in the Twenty-First Century Through Frugal Innovations," Challenge, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(3), pages 40-59.

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