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Equitable access to land as a means of poverty reduction in rural china
Hao, Yan - Abteilung "Ungleichheit und soziale Integration", … - 2011
In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen from 30.7% in 1978 to 3.8% in 2009. This paper begins...
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Financial permeation as a role of microfinance : has microfinance actually been helpful to the poor?
Inoue, Takeshi; Hamori, Shigeyuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
by three indicators related to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and then examine its effect on poverty reduction at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351432
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Building on the positive: an actor innovation systems approach to finding and promoting pro poor natural resources institutional and technical innovations
Biggs, Stephen - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 6 (2007) 2, pp. 144-164
This paper argues that if policies and programmes for the promotion of rural and agricultural technological and institutional innovations are restricted to the framework of the linear 'pipeline' model of R&D and extension, then many opportunities for reducing rural poverty and improving social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564121
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The Geography of American Poverty: Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies?
Partridge, Mark D.; Rickman, Dan S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Partridge and Rickman explore the underlying spatial, demographic, and economic contributors to poverty rates and examine the spatial variation of state and county poverty rates and their trends over time. They conclude that a unique combination of place-based and person-based policies is needed...
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Understanding the multifaceted attributes to rural poverty while assessing the water-poverty-climate change linkage in the Indian Eastern Himalaya
Barua, Anamika; Katyaini, Suparana; Mili, Bhupen - In: International Journal of Green Economics 6 (2012) 1, pp. 73-94
Rural livelihoods depend extensively on water resources. Continued climate change may put the lives and livelihoods of rural poor under greater risk, due to lack of water. Yet poverty is a multifaceted and complex issue, as there are numerous factors which lead to poverty. To presume that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010816837
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Building on the positive: an actor innovation systems approach to finding and promoting pro poor natural resources institutional and technical innovations
Biggs, Stephen - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 6 (2007) 2, pp. 144-164
This paper argues that if policies and programmes for the promotion of rural and agricultural technological and institutional innovations are restricted to the framework of the linear 'pipeline' model of R&D and extension, then many opportunities for reducing rural poverty and improving social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005225662
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Using Evidence to Inform Policy—Report of Impact and Policy Conference: Evidence in Governance, Financial Inclusion, and Entrepreneurship
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014
To promote evidence-based policy making, the Asian Development Bank partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2012 to deliver a 3-day conference on impact evaluation and public policy in Bangkok. Over 200 scholars, practitioners and policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933967
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Unsubsidized Microfinance Institutions
Szafarz, Ariane; D'Espallier, Bert; Hudon, Marek - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2013
This paper starts from the observation that 23% of the world’s microfinance institutions (MFIs) manage without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011011654
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A study on SHGs demographic analysis, microfinance loan utilisation pattern and socio-economic performance of MFIs in India
Alagawadi, Mallikarjuna V.; Surayya, Teki - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 2 (2011) 3, pp. 260-287
Microfinance has emerged as a leading programme for poverty reduction round the globe. Indian microfinance sector has … investors and donors, both domestic and international. In India many microfinance institutions (MFIs) have come into being … analysing demographic profile, study socio-economic profile, and analyse the loan utilisation pattern and impact of microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352678
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Subsidy Uncertainty and Microfinance Mission Drift
Szafarz, Ariane; Armendariz, Beatriz; D'Espallier, Bert; … - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011
This paper shines light on subsidy-dependent microfinance institutions (MFIs). Firstly, our model shows that subsidy …
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