In this chapter, the authors use data from the 2016 Financial Inclusion Insights (FII) program for Nigeria to present new evidence on the effects of financial inclusion on household poverty. The authors add to the discourse on the association between financial inclusion and poverty by examining...

In this introductory chapter to the book, Moving from the Millennium to Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons and Recommendations, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill provides a summary discussion on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He discusses the need to...

In this chapter, Awaworyi Churchill conducts a meta-analysis to review the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction and microenterprise performance. He considers four proxies for poverty and three for microenterprise performance in order to examine the empirical evidence and to provide a...