This paper examines the combined effect of interest rates and poverty levels of microfinance clients on loan size …. Cross section data on 2,691 clients and non-clients households from Ghana is used to test the hypothesis of loan price … poverty level is suggested in targeting and sustaining microfinance clients. …

Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this period, showing improvements in almost all indicators over this …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

income poverty are imperative for different locations in Ghana. …This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …

preparation if poverty is to be taken more seriously by donors. …

nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of … differing size. The paper begins with certain problems attending the measurement of poverty when the overall population size is … Parfit's quest for a satisfactory theory of wellbeing and the economist's quest for a satisfactory measure of poverty …

poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …