Characteristics and patterns of intergenerational poverty traps and escapes in rural north India

Anirudh Krishna Working Paper April 2011 No. 189 The poverty status of all 4,198 households resident in 18 villages of Rajasthan, India, was examined at four points of time between 1977 and 2010 using a retrospective methodology known as Stages of Progress. Households that were consistently poor at all four points spanning a period of [...]