poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural … hunger or extreme poverty, the poor must be allowed to obtain meaningful access to financial services through the design of …

entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics, and point to two distinct, and staggered, drivers of … by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline …

administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National …Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such … performance of an anti-poverty programme - such as higher NREGA participation of rural households - would be misleading because it …

financial inclusion would be important in the quest to reduce the incidence of poverty and vulnerability as well as inequality. …

Using a unique district-level panel data set, we investigate the effect of banking system penetration on financial … environment of the Ghanaian banking system to instrument for banking system penetration. We show, first, that the switch from a … compartmentalized system of banking to a universal banking system in Ghana has resulted in an expansion of banks' branch networks, which …

A cash transfer programme 'Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty' has been implemented with the aim of addressing … poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households …

Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first … is sensitive to indicator definitions, the overall results are robust and lend support to the view that poverty reduction …

Viet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities … standards. The programme addresses typical causes of poverty among ethnic minorities and inequality between these groups and the … provide an overview of the programme and examine the drivers of its success in reducing poverty and bridging the majority …