Posted by: Barbara Spangle (bspangle@colby.edu) on Thu, October 27, 2011, 12:32 p.m.

How do people people "fall" into poverty, and how do they manage to escape what seems, to some, like their predetermined fate?  Statistics don't tell us very much.  Prof. Anirudh Krishna, a political scientist at Duke University, has tackled these questions in a fascinating new study of 35,000 households in five countries and four continents.

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