Podcasts Science Paper Round It's a Poverty Trap!

It's a Poverty Trap!

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 2:14 p.m.

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Ranil and Matt discuss "Why Do Poor People Stay Poor?" by Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak and Anton Heil, a study on whether those living in extreme poverty in Rural Bangladesh are stuck in poverty because they are in an asset-based poverty trap. 

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Paper available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3594155

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Episode Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eo2fphckaqftjka/Episode%201%20-%20It%27s%20a%20Poverty%20Trap%21%20Transcript.pdf?dl=0

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0:00 - Introduction

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0:47 - Why we started the podcast

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Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, \\u201cMother\\u2019s Love\\u201d

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03:56 - Paper discussion: "Why Do Poor People Stay Poor?"

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53:20 - Other things we found interesting this week: Malawi becoming the Economist\'s country of the year.

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57:27 - Outro

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Theme music is "Pasikolu" by Mello C, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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https://freemusicarchive.org/music/mello-c/concept-beats-vol-2-deporaju/pasikolu

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