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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| author | Radeny, Maren A.O. Berg, M. van den Schipper, R |
| author_browse | Berg, M. van den Radeny, Maren A.O. Schipper, R |
| author_facet | Radeny, Maren A.O. Berg, M. van den Schipper, R |
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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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| spelling | CGSpace169642025-06-13T04:20:17Z Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes Radeny, Maren A.O. Berg, M. van den Schipper, R poverty 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. 2012-08 2012-05-14T05:49:25Z 2012-05-14T05:49:25Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/16964 en Limited Access Elsevier 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. |
| spellingShingle | poverty Radeny, Maren A.O. Berg, M. van den Schipper, R Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes |
| title | Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes |
| title_full | Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes |
| title_fullStr | Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes |
| title_short | Rural poverty dynamics in Kenya: Structural declines and stochastic escapes |
| title_sort | rural poverty dynamics in kenya structural declines and stochastic escapes |
| topic | poverty |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/16964 |
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