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Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes
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Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes
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| Creator |
Radeny, Maren A.O.
Berg, M. van den Schipper, R |
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poverty
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| Description |
We use panel survey data and household event-histories to explore patterns of rural poverty dynamics in Kenya over the period 2000–2009. We find substantial mobility across poverty categories using economic transition matrices. Drawing on asset-based approaches, we distinguish stochastic from structural poverty transitions. Few households successfully escaped poverty through asset accumulation (up to 35% of the upwardly mobile), while a large proportion of households (up to 66%) declining into poverty experienced structural transitions. Using household event-histories, we find significant differences across structural poverty transition classes in livelihood strategies, household-level shocks, and other factors.
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2012-08
2012-05-14T05:49:25Z 2012-05-14T05:49:25Z |
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Journal Article
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Radeny, M., Berg, M. van den and Schipper, R. 2012. Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes. World Development 40(8):1577-1593.
0305-750X https://hdl.handle.net/10568/16964 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.04.027 |
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en
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Copyrighted; all rights reserved
Limited Access |
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p. 1577-1593
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Elsevier BV
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World Development
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