Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi …-borrowers. Pipeline borrowers are included to control for self-selection effects. It is argued that micro-credit causes a substitution of …. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …

reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some … recalibration. We find that when the macroeconomic conditions in Bolivia allow for a 10 percent reduction in the poverty rate …A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a …

This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …

poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying … proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on …

sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … econometric results. We show that women are heavily indebted, first and foremost to informal sources, alongside microcredit. While … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …

matching models. The substantive empirical results of these models indicate that many of the capability indicators are higher … programs despite modest global research evidence for micro-finance impacts on nominal incomes. Second, results argue strongly …

This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions … (MFIs): poverty reduction and financial viability. Using an unbalanced panel of 531 MFIs the important role of other … availability and lesser time in securing property enhances the chances of MFIs in achieving their poverty reduction objective …

This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 … educational attainment to form part of one's own responsibility the Colombian income distribution appears more equal than Bolivia … Ecuador, and a mere 2.4 percent in Bolivia. Our findings show that the sources of income inequality can differ substantially …