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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction : focus on Western Mindanao, Philippines
Moreno, Frede G. - 2004
Microcredit can be an effective tool for tackling the global poverty problem. Making microcredit work better for the … economic options of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries within Third World economic and poverty conditions. Governance principles can … for poverty reduction and development. In view of the Philippine government’s limitations, economic and fiscal challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400001
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Levels and changes in income poverty, consumption poverty, and material well-being: A response to Shaefer and Rivera (2018)
Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - 2018
on trends in income and consumption-based poverty measures in the United States. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439190
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The use and misuse of income data and extreme poverty in the United States
Meyer, Bruce D.; Wu, Derek; Mooers, Victoria R.; … - 2019
More than half of all misclassified households have incomes from the administrative data above the poverty line, and … contrast, the households kept from extreme poverty by in-kind transfers appear to be among the most materially deprived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439208
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Ending homelessness: More housing or fewer shelters?
Corinth, Kevin C. - 2015
Over the past decade, a major effort to "end homelessness" has lead to a marked expansion in permanent housing for the homeless relative to shelters. In this paper, I use community-level data over the period 2007-2014 in the United States to estimate short and long run associations between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439260
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Using linked survey and administrative data to better measure income: Implications for poverty, program effectiveness and holes in the safety net
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2015
analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often …. Using the combined data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439292
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The impact of social ties on homelessness
Corinth, Kevin C.; Rossi-de Vries, Claire - 2017
While almost all homeless people are poor, most poor people do not experience homelessness. We use a detailed national survey to explore the role of social ties - including connection to relatives, friends and religious community - in explaining why only a subset of poor adults fall into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439308
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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction: Focus on Western Mindanao, Philippines
Moreno, Frede G. - 2004
Microcredit can be an effective tool for tackling the global poverty problem. Making microcredit work better for the … economic options of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries within Third World economic and poverty conditions. Governance principles can … for poverty reduction and development. In view of the Philippine government’s limitations, economic and fiscal challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397022
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304424
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What do you do when the binomial cannot value real options? The LSM model
Azofra, S. Alonso, V.; De La Fuente, G. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-13
The Least-Squares Monte Carlo model (LSM model) has emerged as the derivative valuation technique with the greatest impact in current practice. As with other options valuation models, the LSM algorithm was initially posited in the field of financial derivatives and its extension to the realm of...
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'Economics' of prosperity: Why the dominant perspectives may be unhelpful to make sense of underdevelopment
Gupta, Avinash - 2018
The article is essentially a book-review of Professor Vijay Joshi's recent work, '"India's Long Road: The Search for Prosperity". In this critical essay, I take a slightly revisionist approach when it comes to a 'typical'book review. For example, the length of this article goes well-beyond the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011866627