Note: Hand written solution should be avoided. In several places in his book, The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, andPolicy, and the corresponding PowerPoints, Martin Ravallion comes back to a story from Kathrine Boo's book,Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House, NY, p.68). In the repeated story, Boo describes the experienceof young scavenger, Sunil, in a Mumbai slum:A"He'd sat in on [the English class taught in the slum] for a few days, mastering the English twinkle-starsong before deciding that his time was better spent working for food."Relate this story to the idea of a poverty trap and link it to the graph below, where W₁ is wealth thisperiod and W₁+1 is wealth next period. Let k stand for individual investments in education.W ₁+1Bkmmink* /(2+1)-W₁+1 = (w.)W₁

A poverty trap refers to a situation where individuals or communities are trapped in a cycle of…

In several places in his book, The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy, and the corresponding PowerPoints, Martin Ravallion comes back to a story from Kathrine Boo's book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House, NY, p.68). In the repeated story, Boo describes the experience of young scavenger, Sunil, in a Mumbai slum: "He'd sat in on [the English class taught in the slum] for a few days, mastering the English twinkle-star song before deciding that his time was better spent working for food." Relate this story to the idea of a poverty trap and link it to the graph below, where W₁ is wealth this period and W₁+1 is wealth next period. Let k stand for individual investments in education.

In several places in his book, The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy, and the corresponding PowerPoints, Martin Ravallion comes back to a story from Kathrine Boo's book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House, NY, p.68). In the repeated story, Boo describes the experience of young scavenger, Sunil, in a Mumbai slum: "He'd sat in on [the English class taught in the slum] for a few days, mastering the English twinkle-star song before deciding that his time was better spent working for food." Relate this story to the idea of a poverty trap and link it to the graph below, where W₁ is wealth this period and W₁+1 is wealth next period. Let k stand for individual investments in education.

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