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Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...
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The low take-up of cost-effective and highly subsidised preventive health technologies in low-income countries remains a puzzle. One under-studied reason is that the design of subsidy schemes is such that households remain financially constrained. This paper analyses whether, and how,...
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Early childhood interventions aim to promote skill acquisition and poverty reduction. While their short-term success is …
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.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …
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estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The analysis … finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net effect … was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different from …
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trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and … poverty line that would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of … poverty with respect to income, this provides an estimate of the change in poverty by country. Under most liberalization …
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