Arbeitspapier
Assets, shocks, and poverty traps in rural Mozambique
Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings indicate that there is little differentiation in productive asset endowments over time and that rural households gravitate towards a single equilibrium, which is at a surprisingly low level. The analysis shows that shocks and household coping behavior help to explain the observed poverty dynamics. The single low-level equilibrium points to an overall development trap in the rural farm-based economy. This is attributed to the long-term impact of the civil war, which has consolidated unfavorable economic conditions in rural areas and limited new economic opportunities outside of the agricultural sector.
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Englisch
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Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 1073
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
Mozambique
poverty trap
shocks
violent conflict
Ländliche Armut
Vermögen
Schock
Ländliche Wirtschaft
Haushaltsökonomik
Bürgerkrieg
Mosambik
Schindler, Kati
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Giesbert, Lena
- Schindler, Kati
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Entstanden
- 2010
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