that the cross-country allocations of aggregate trust fund aid are poverty- and policy-selective. In this respect, they are … and education aid are poverty selective and positively correlated with the World Bank's assessment of the quality of … countries' sector policies, while environmental trust funds are neither poverty selective nor correlated with the assessed …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …, invest in children's schooling, and be lifted out of poverty. This is not to say that non-participants have failed to … of poverty reduction have been higher for participants. Testing the net effect of microcredit programs requires applying …

in poverty transition -- Diversification of income and employment : how does microfinance affect agriculture …? -- Distributional impacts -- Effects of noncredit participation -- Does microfinance pay off? -- Beyond ending poverty -- Appendix A …Preface -- About the authors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Rural nonfarm growth and poverty reduction …

This report investigates the poverty outreach of 14 microfinance institutions (MFI) across six Latin American countries … poverty likelihood using the Progress Out of Poverty Index (a.k.a. Simple Poverty Scorecard) supplemented by in … two interlinked factors driving poverty outreach across some Latin American markets: competition and over …