In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing … poverty conditions among its vast rural population. Astonishing growth rates in Bangladesh, particularly during 1990s, created … a new dimension for microfinance worldwide as microfinance institutions grew to include millions of clients. The start …

the proposed Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) to adequately address the problems related to poverty reduction, and service … the particularly important aspects of poverty - risk and vulnerability - to then provide insights on the understanding of … the nature of poverty in the country, and how to address it. It specifies that risk management, if properly implemented …

Framework. It begins with a chapter on reducing poverty, followed by a chapter on human development. Chapter 3 focuses on the …. Chapter 4 deals with governance issues, a major concern of the Bank because of its links to poverty reduction and development …. The next three chapters deal with ways to increase growth and its poverty reducing content through improvements in a …

Poverty, environment, social development, and gender are important cross-cutting themes of the World Bank and … between gender, environment, and poverty and help identify approaches that can accelerate the positive synergy and better … social/gender, environment, and poverty outcomes; otherwise, the existing negative relationships may slow the development …

African Francs (FCFA) in programs will promote sustainable land management (SLM) and other activities to reduce poverty and … on land management, agricultural production, poverty, and other outcomes are not well known. A few studies have …

Mozambique's continuous efforts to sustain economic growth and reduce poverty face a number of constraints including … vulnerable to water shocks and water being a constraint on growth and poverty reduction. The development of Mozambique Country … supporting its approach and priorities. It is consistent with the country's development priorities as defined in Second Poverty …

This report on a key to poverty reduction in Peru identifies a number of cost-effective policy interventions that could …

a view to increasing productivity and reducing poverty in rural areas. Moreover, the PRECASP will finance expenditure …

This is a draft edition of the Poverty Environment Nexus (PEN) report for Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam. The purpose of …