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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana : a micro-level analysis
Danquah, Michael; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Ohemeng, Williams; … - 2020
addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the …
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Poverty and wellbeing impacts of microfinance : what do we know?
Maîtrot, Mathilde; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017
Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …
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Poverty and informality in Ecuador
Canelas, Carla - 2015
This paper uses national representative data from the Ecuadorian Family Expenditure survey to study the determinants of poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena. The results support the view of a heterogeneous...
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Putting the financial system to work for the poor and SMEs
Osman, Abdul Magid; Osman, Djamila Pontes - 2020
The financial inclusion effort achieved positive results, with the number of Mozambicans having access to banking services increasing considerably, particularly after 2011- 12. However, the economic and social impact was limited, considering that farm productivity has remained low and poverty...
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Voter coercion and pro-poor redistribution in rural Mexico
Filipovich, Dragan; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Santillán … - 2021
Voter coercion is a recurrent threat to pro-poor redistribution in young democracies. In this study we focus on Mexico's paradigmatic Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme. We investigate whether local mayors exploited POP to coerce voters, and if so, what effect these actions had on...
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Identifying destitution through linked subsets of multidimensionally poor : an ordinal approach
Alkire, Sabina; Seth, Suman - 2015
In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial to distinguish them from the moderately poor population. In this paper, we explore the mechanisms to distinguish subsets of the poor in a multidimensional counting framework....
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Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? : making sense of Malawi's poverty puzzle
Pauw, Karl; Beck, Ulrik; Mussa, Richard - 2014
Disappointment was widespread when rapid economic growth since 2005, coupled with a smallholder-targeted fertilizer subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011,...
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Poverty and happiness : an examination of the factors influencing happiness among the extreme poor in rural Ghana
Ayerakwa, Hayford M.; Osei, Robert Darko; Osei-Akoto, Isaac - 2015
Every person desires some level of inner fulfilment at different stages of life and this could come from a combination of several factors including material and resource acquisition and social prestige. The challenge, however, is whether happiness levels across the different social strata are...
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The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India : model-based simulation and case-study evidence
Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Peter - 2019
The North Indian village of Palanpur has been the subject of close study over a period of six decades from 1957/8 to 2015. Himanshu et al. (2018) have documented the evolution of the village economy over this period in an exhaustive study entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and...
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Another look at foreign aid
Ranis, Gustav - 2013
The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
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