Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes

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 struct...

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Main Authors: Radeny, Maren A.O., Berg, M. van den, Schipper, R
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Elsevier 2012
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/16964

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