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 …

addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the …

This paper considers arguments about Islam and women's welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic …

In 2015 the Government of Uganda agreed to start rolling out a social pension programme, and increasing its own … help align the social protection agenda with Uganda's shifting political settlement dynamics. Government's apparent … commitment to social protection remains meagre; only a tiny proportion of Uganda's poor will benefit. The evidence presented here …

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single … poverty lines, we then look at poverty dynamics using four waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey. We classify households …

of urbanization in Uganda and what this means for urban policy planning and poverty reduction in the country. Although … the history of urbanization in Uganda is relatively young compared to other East African countries, the rate of urban … development path of Uganda can be classified into five phases, referred to in this paper as transitions, and these are …