John G. McPeak

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present comparative qualitative and quantitative evidence from rural Kenya and Madagascar in an attempt to untangle the causality behind persistent poverty, and suggest the existence of multiple dynamic asset and structural income equilibria, consistent with the poverty traps hypothesis.

TL;DR: This paper explored the value of such external climate forecast information to pastoralists in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya using data collected using both open-ended, qualitative methods to identify and understand indigenous climate forecasting methods and quantitative data collected with survey instruments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a synthesis of findings from these and related studies that suggest how differences in pastoralists' ubiquitous risk exposure create and sustain structural poverty traps from which many ASAL pastoralists are having a difficult time escaping.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated livestock sales behavior in an environment where both income and asset shocks occur, and their respective impact on sales behavior was identified, showing that income and assetshocks are positively correlated, but influence sales in an offsetting fashion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a special issue featuring a set of papers on institutional arrangements for reconciling rural poverty reduction with renewable natural resources conservation in the low-income tropics.