Un tipo de libertad: evaluación de trampas de pobreza en el sector rural Colombiano entre 2010 y 2016

Abstract

This paper presents an empirical analysis based on asset holdings about poverty traps from rural Colombia. I show that, in the sample, persistent poverty were more than 40 %. Seeking the reasons behind this I estimate asset returns, asset dynamic and income dynamic based on their theorical definitions. According to this it was found that rural Colombians households faced between 2010 and 2016: Nonconvexities in asset returns for the poorest and increase returns for the richest, low asset holdings in multiple equilibria dynamic of assets and low stochastic income equilibriums. Going deeper in the relevance of this results we found that poorest households experimented low consumption smoothing, high variation in their consumption and lower income risk, as well as lower growth in their income compared with no poor households.