2. What is a Poverty Trap?

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Defines a poverty trap with an S-shaped curve and shows how one would test for it in data, from economists who did the research.

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What a poverty trap is, and how economists test whether one exists.

Video by MIT OpenCourseWare, played through YouTube's embedded player.

Part of MIT 14.73 The Challenge of World Poverty, Spring 2011

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