How does a country's legal and regulatory framework affect the sustainability of microfinance? Does a tiered approach … to regulation help to integrate microfinance into the formal financial system? And are there lessons to be learned from … the experience of Ghana and the Philippines with a tiered approach? …

key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank …: India's rural poor currently have very little access to finance from formal sources. Microfinance approaches have tried to … microfinance approaches to coexist. Private sector microfinanciers need to acquire greater professionalism, and the government can …

poverty, especially in rural areas and among the unemployed, self-employed, and rural low-educated. The Philippines is found …"Since the early 1980s the Philippines has undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha Round of World Trade … detailed economywide computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to run a series of policy experiments. They find that poverty …

In terms of its impact on poverty, the recent economic crisis in the Philippines was more of an El Niño phenomenon than …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …

its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock … interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In … particular, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty …