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Assets, Poverty Traps and Rights Natural Resource Management USAID Seminar Series: Natural Resource Management and Poverty Reduction Chris Barrett Cornell University December 9, 2004 Washington, DC

Asset-Based Poverty … the foundation of livelihoods Assets underpin the generation of income and self-insurance against adverse shocks … the foundation of livelihoods Five main types, 0/w three key for the poor: Financial Human Natural Physical Social

Evolving Views of Poverty Successive generations of poverty analysis 1st: static income/expenditure analysis (headcount, poverty gap, FGT measures) 2nd: dynamic income/expenditure analysis (chronic/transitory poverty distinction) 3rd: static asset poverty analysis (structural/stochastic poverty distinction)

Asset-Based View of Poverty Source: Carter and Barrett (2004)

An Emerging 4th Generation View Stable, dynamic equilibrium (SDE) below asset poverty line … a “poverty trap” Commonly, multiple SDE with locally increasing returns and nonlinear asset dynamics … investment, natural dynamics and shocks matter a great deal Fractal patterns – can exist at multiple scales

The Possibility of Poverty Traps At=A0 (dynamic equilibrium) AL Static Asset Poverty Line Dynamic Asset Poverty Line A*H A*L A* Utility Figure 3: The Dynamic Asset Poverty Line A Income Poverty Line Initial Assets L1 L2 Next Period’s Assets U*H U*L The Poverty Trap The Critical Dynamic Asset Poverty Threshold From Carter and Barrett (2004)

Relevance to NRM S-shaped natural asset dynamics standard: - biological recruitment (livestock, wildlife, forests) - soil nutrient depletion/repletion (shifting cultivation, transhumance) Agriculture embodies asset portfolio rebalancing: NRM practices, harvests, etc. exchange natural – human – financial – social capital constantly. Multiple equilibria in managing commons: meso-scale (geographic) poverty traps due to coordination problems (land, water, forest, wildlife, pests)

Relevance to NRM NRM is an investment choice – crucial to reducing rural poverty as well as to conservation - Five “ins”: Investment depends on incentives, institutions, information and infrastructure (Barrett, Place and Aboud 2002) Inherent complementarity of different types of assets and among the “ins”

Relevance to NRM Cautionary tale of market-based conservation and development in Morocco’s argan forest

Rights and Poverty Dynamics Rights matter to - Access to and control over natural assets Ability to defend against asset loss (asset stripping, raiding) Incentive to invest in natural asset growth (tree planting, SWC structures, fallowing) … shifts the dynamic asset poverty line Propensity to mis-/over-use of resources Enforcing rules: 2nd order public good

Natural Resources and The Poverty Reduction Challenge Context-specific, multi-dimensional asset thresholds that separate growth / decline … natural assets are especially crucial for rural poor Climbing out of poverty traps and keeping the non- poor out of poverty traps requires: - increase productivity of assets (markets/technologies) - facilitate asset building and protection (cargo/safety nets) - remove exclusionary mechanisms (finance/social networks/rights systems)

Thank you!