Modelling household well-being and poverty trajectories: An application to coastal Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: Resource-based livelihoods are uncertain and potentially unstable due to variability over time, including seasonal variation: this instability threatens marginalised populations who may fall into poverty. However, empirical understanding of trajectories of household well-being and poverty is limited. Here, we present a new household-level model of poverty dynamics based on agents and coping strategies-the Household Economy And Poverty trajectory (HEAP) model. HEAP is based on established economic and social insights into poverty dynamics, with a demonstration of the model calibrated with a qualitative and quantitative household survey in coastal Bangladesh. Economic activity in Bangladesh is highly dependent on natural resources; poverty is widespread; and there is high variability in ecos

SUBMITTER: Lazar AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7473571 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature