Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox

Munenobu Ikegami, Michael R. Carter, Christopher B. Barrett, Sarah A. Janzen

NBER Working Paper No. 22714
Issued in October 2016

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We thank John Hoddinott, Valerie Kozel, Felix Naschold and seminar audiences at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Namur, Purdue, Wageningen, Wisconsin and the World Bank for helpful comments on earlier versions of this work. Generous financial support was provided by the Social Protection Division of the World Bank and by a grant from the USAID Office of Poverty Reduction to the BASIS Assets and Market Assets Innovation Lab. The ideas expressed are the responsibility of the authors and should not be attributed to either sponsoring organization, nor to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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