Do conflicts create poverty traps?: asset losses and recovery for displaced households in Colombia
A.M. Ibáñez; A. Moya | Microcon | 2009
Country: Kolumbien
Determining assets as key indicators of household welfare, the authors of this paper seek to analyse how asset losses occur during internal conflicts and the process of asset accumulation following conflict. To conduct such research they focused on an especially vulnerable group of victims of conflict - the displaced population in Colombia.
Civilians are particularly vulnerable in intrastate conflict. Many communities are viewed as a ‘resource’ to be appropriated – whether it be land; physical assets or valuable resources. Such ‘disruption’ may be difficult for households to recover from. Not only could key physical assets be essential to livelihoods but the loss of ‘assets’ such as the death of family members; the destruction of socio-economic networks; and the collapse of local financial markets could see communities thrust into chronic poverty. Does conflict, therefore, create ‘poverty traps’?
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