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 …

We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help … men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states …

The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analysed for the US$1.25 and US$2.50 level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data. The … study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …