addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the … poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural … hunger or extreme poverty, the poor must be allowed to obtain meaningful access to financial services through the design of …

debe ser sobrestimado.English Abstract: The relevance of the Microfinance Institutions as a tool to fight poverty, mainly … fight against poverty should not be overestimated …

The evaluation of the poverty of beneficiaries is a topic rarely raised as is the impact of microfinance. The different … debate from survey data collected in Mali in 2007 regarding the beneficiaries of microfinance services. The paper adopts the … methodology of identifying the poor based on the micro-multidimensional measure of poverty developed by Chakravarty, Mukherjee and …

In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below ….25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the …

poverty.The basic premise of the work-first model that continuing participation in the labor force will lead to economic self … at least three quarters a year over a multi-year period, which are the prerequisites for rising above the poverty … these workers to the poverty threshold would increase economic output by another three-quarters of a billion dollars a year …

A new class of chronic poverty measures is constructed that builds upon Jalan and Ravallion (1998) but does not require … the resources of a person into a permanent income standard that is then compared to a poverty line to determine when a …) poverty measure with the same parameter β is applied to the distribution of permanent income standards to measure overall …

This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different … poverty. We compare the actual differential in poverty with the gap that remains after disadvantaged ethnic groups are given …

We compare the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in six Asian … magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different ethnicities in those … countries. Then, we use regression-based counterfactual analysis for explaining these ethnic differentials in poverty. We …