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One Illness Away: Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty
How People Escape Poverty and Become Poor
Book • 2025
This book presents findings from research on poverty dynamics at the household level across several countries, including India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, and North Carolina, USA. It explores both the pathways into poverty and the strategies people use to escape it, highlighting the role of unexpected events like illness in precipitating economic hardship.
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to illustrate the dynamic of falling back into poverty after escaping it.

Paul Niehaus

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The Myth of the Poverty Trap