Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could …, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …

microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool …

(majority) of "Bumiputera" (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long …Ethnic riots broke out in Malaysia in 1969, prompting a national effort at affirmative action favoring the poorer …-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall …

We review the empirical evidence on microfinance and asset grants to the ultra poor or microentrepreneurs, and assess … aggregate poverty traps …

experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …

"This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the … into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey …