Are Markets Inclusive for the Poor?

• Main Authors: Acosta, Pablo, Melzer, Illana, Mendoza, Ronald U, Kim, Namsuk, Thelen, Nina
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2007
• Subjects: Economic Policy; Economics
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/asog-pubs/148; https://catalog.ihsn.org/index.php/citations/29628
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Building on earlier work by Banerjee and Duflo (2007) [“The Economic Lives of the Poor” in Journal of Economic Perspectives 21(1):141-167], this paper uses survey data from 9 countries in order to shed further light on one aspect of the economic lives of the poor: their access to markets. It develop...