challenges remain in accelerating economic reforms and reducing poverty. Real economic growth accelerated from almost 4½ in 2010 …

undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

microfinance. While not yet significant in most Sub-Saharan countries, several features make Islamic finance instruments relevant …

. A key feature of the economic strategy has been an explicit commitment to poverty reduction and structural … hindering further broadening of growth across key sectors to reduce poverty, and highlights the main areas for policy action. …

microfinance sector in Africa. The paper supports the view that microfinance institutions, especially those engaged in full …. Growing linkages between microfinance institutions and the banking system and the dissemination of good practices by …

The global financial crisis affected microfinance institutions (MFIs) as lending growth was constrained by scarcer …

Many governments and nongovernmental organizations have adopted policies to promote the growth of microfinance …

financial sector of Niger and discusses the recent banking developments. It analyzes the recent trends in key microfinance …