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Assets, shocks and poverty traps in rural Mozambique

Lena Giesbert
Kati Schindler
2010

Abstract

Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically for the existence of a poverty trap with household panel data. Findings indicate that rural households gravitate towards a single equilibrium which is at a surprisingly low level. The paper contributes to the literature by providing empirical evidence on the role of assets in welfare trajectories on the micro-level and by investigating the extent to which shocks and household coping behaviour relate back to poverty dynamics.

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Conference Paper

Ten Years of War Against Poverty Conference Papers

Conference: Ten Years of War Against Poverty

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