Assets and Poverty Traps in Rural Bangladesh

Agnes Quisumbing and Bob Baulch

Journal of Development Studies, 2013, vol. 49, issue 7, 898-916

Abstract: Using longitudinal survey from rural Bangladesh, this article examines the determinants of land and asset accumulation over time and explores why some households may be trapped in asset poverty. Non-parametric and parametric methods are used to discern the shape of the asset accumulation path, and whether unique or multiple equilibria exist. We find evidence for concavity of the dynamic asset frontier but no evidence for multiple equilibria. It is suggested that the existence of well-functioning factor markets in rural Bangladesh and elsewhere in South Asia explain the contrasts between our results and those for several African countries.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2013.785524

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