program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …

known about the ultimate impact of informal loans on poverty and inequality. If informal credit is an important means to … decrease poverty, the government may want to reconsider its policy focus. Although it is possible to stimulate the availability …, and subsequently assess its impact on poverty and inequality. By using fixed-effect regressions with instrumental …

is recognized that the main obstacles to empowerment has been the low level of educational attainments as well as poverty … interventions and implemented many programmes to eradicate poverty and to provide education to the vulnerable sections of the …

discussion on the role of micro-credit in poverty alleviation in general, widely acclaimed in contrast to the top-down policies …-finance itself and to gender policy such as the feminist empowerment paradigm, the poverty alleviation paradigm and the financial …

This paper analyzes the relationship between rural poverty and forest land management in the context of charcoal …

have equated poverty with well being, however empirical literature on well being is less researched. This paper attempts … approach in its application in the Nigerian well being context which is not as well researched as poverty studies. The study …