Histoires personnelles et pièges de pauvreté. Personal Histories and Poverty Traps

Partha Dasgupta

Revue d’économie du développement, 2011, vol. 19, issue 4, 87-114

Abstract: This paper sketches a theory explaining why deep poverty has a strong tendency to persist across generations. The author shows that high maintenance costs of good physical and emotional health, which are manifestations of complementarities among the inputs that humans need for survival, underlie the existence of poverty traps. Thus, nutritional insults at the earliest stages of life of a person could have irreversible consequences on his subsequent ability to acquire human capital.

Date: 2011
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