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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction: focus on western Mindanao, Philippines

Moreno, Frede - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

The study argues for the integration of good governance principles in developing financially viable, effective and social equity-laden microcredit strategy for the impoverished agrarian reform beneficiaries in Western Mindanao. It particularly examines the program design and implementation...

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Environmental pressures and rural-urban migration: The case of Bangladesh

Herrmann, Michael; Svarin, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At the turn of the Millennium 75 percent of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71 percent of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the...

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Microcredit, labour, and poverty impacts in urban Mexico

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Mosley, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Improved household accessibility to credit is identified as a significant determinant of intra-household re-allocation of labour resources with important implications for productivity, income, and poverty status. However, credit accessibility could also have wider impacts on poverty if it leads...

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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas?Evidence from a Developing Country

Nguyen, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression and panel data from household surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on income and consumption expenditure of rural households in Vietnam. Then we propose a simple estimate method to estimate the effect...

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Pobreza de ingreso en CHihuahua: un análisis territorial para el período 1990-2000

Enrique, Luis; Casas, Gutierrez - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this essay we estimate six income poverty indexes for period 1990-2000 referred to the state of Chihuahua (México). In the first two sections of this study are justified and explained, in general terms, the methods and indicators used for measuring poverty. In a third section is described,...

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The Role of Public Infraestructure in Market Development in Rural Peru

Escobal, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This Study provides a conceptual framework to study the impact of rural infrastructure investment in market development and in the enhancement of income generating opportunities for the poor in rural Peru. The study uses descriptive methods and regression analysis together with relatively new...

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Natural Resource Curse and Poverty in Appalachian America

Partridge, Mark; Betz, Mike; Lobao, Linda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The Appalachian mountain region has long been characterized by deep poverty which led to the formation of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) in 1965. The ARC region covers West Virginia and parts of 12 other states, running from New York to Mississippi (Ziliak 2012). The ARC region had an...

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Relative or absolute poverty in the US and EU? The battle of the rates

Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

for all the countries of the (old) EU and the USA applying the official measurement methods of the United States (absolute …

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The policy relevance of absolute and relative poverty headcounts: What's in a number?

Notten, Geranda; de Neubourg, Chris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and …

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Poverty in Europe and the USA: Exchanging official measurement methods

Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays … different dimensions of poverty. In this study we compare the official poverty methodologies of the USA and EU by applying them … Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) for the USA, we compare poverty trends in the USA and EU in relative and absolute terms on a …

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