Publication Details

Spatial disadvantages or spatial poverty traps: household evidence from rural Kenya

Working paper series: ‘Spatial Poverty Traps: What Are They and What Can Be Done About Them?'

William J. Burke
Thom S. Jayne
2010

Abstract

The goals of this study are: i) to determine the relative importance of spatial factors in explaining household wealth; ii) to identify the spatial characteristics of the chronically poorest, the consistently well off and households escaping from poverty as well as descending into poverty; iii) to determine effects of compound disadvantages on the likelihood of chronic poverty; and iv) to assess the evidence of spatial poverty traps.

This paper is a joint Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and CPRC Working Paper Series on ‘Spatial Poverty Traps: What Are They and What Can Be Done About Them'.