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 …

We show that extremely poor, war-affected women in northern Uganda have high returns to a package of $150 cash, five …

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

Conservation programs in low-income countries often have dual goals of protecting the environment and reducing poverty … pure transfers, and the extent of the anti-poverty benefits depends on whether the pure transfers are de facto targeted to … protection in Uganda. I provide evidence that the economic gains from participation in PES are indeed larger for those with low …

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 …

Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …, or policy-account for the observed changes in poverty in the two nations and what role could policy play in reducing …