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aspirations failure: a standalone construct

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Development economics

a poverty trap in which poor people set aspirations too low and so underinvest in effort, keeping them poor.

In development economics, aspirations failure refers to a poverty trap in which poor people set aspirations too low and so underinvest in effort, keeping them poor. This meaning comes from Dalton (2015) in The Economic Journal.[1]

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development1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct effort2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs failure4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Dalton, P. S., Ghosal, S., & Mani, A. (2015). Poverty and Aspirations Failure. The Economic Journal, 126(590), 165-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12210

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