58 min
It's a Poverty Trap! Paper Round
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- Social Sciences
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.
Paper available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3594155
Episode Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eo2fphckaqftjka/Episode%201%20-%20It%27s%20a%20Poverty%20Trap%21%20Transcript.pdf?dl=0
0:00 - Introduction
0:47 - Why we started the podcast
Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, “Mother’s Love”
03:56 - Paper discussion: "Why Do Poor People Stay Poor?"
53:20 - Other things we found interesting this week: Malawi becoming the Economist's country of the year.
57:27 - Outro
Theme music is "Pasikolu" by Mello C, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/mello-c/concept-beats-vol-2-deporaju/pasikolu
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.
Paper available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3594155
Episode Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eo2fphckaqftjka/Episode%201%20-%20It%27s%20a%20Poverty%20Trap%21%20Transcript.pdf?dl=0
0:00 - Introduction
0:47 - Why we started the podcast
Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou, “Mother’s Love”
03:56 - Paper discussion: "Why Do Poor People Stay Poor?"
53:20 - Other things we found interesting this week: Malawi becoming the Economist's country of the year.
57:27 - Outro
Theme music is "Pasikolu" by Mello C, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/mello-c/concept-beats-vol-2-deporaju/pasikolu
58 min