Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could …, India, we find that “gung ho entrepreneurs” (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …

introduced payroll accounts in a population of largely unbanked factory workers in Bangladesh. In the experiment, workers in a …

microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool …

experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

We review the empirical evidence on microfinance and asset grants to the ultra poor or microentrepreneurs, and assess … aggregate poverty traps …

This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results … contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts … have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure …