This paper explores the relationship between microcredit and poverty reduction. To investigate this question, we posit …

microcredit, plays a role in children?s food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is … assessed in a novel way as self-reported credit limits at microcredit organizations. Since credit limits, that is, the maximum … resources of lenders, it is plausible they are more exogenous than demand driven loan uptake or participation in microcredit …

China has undergone remarkable economic growth spearheaded by industrialization. Chinese industry demands a wide … domestic supply for several materials. Thus, China needs to import raw materials. In order to satisfy its needs, China has …

This Policy Brief focuses on links betweenthe developing countries of Brazil, India,China and South Africa and the … global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China.s spectacular growthon developing economies and the rest …

This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China … in rural China would decrease only marginally if such disparities were to vanish. In contrast the spatial dimension is … much more important for income inequality and for wealth inequality in rural China. …