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Microfinance continues to play an ever increasing role in approaches topoverty alleviation around the world. Yet … mystery. From its inception, microfinance generated agreat deal of interest from economic theorists. Influential papers from …
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In the paper it is inquired how Sudanese women use the financial institutions in order toorganise their lives between market, household, and the community. The results arebased on interviews and observations done in two villages in the surroundings ofOmdurman (Al Gharaza and Sanahir), displaced...
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measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard … distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …
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some measures whichcan enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of microfinance as an instrumentfor reducing rural poverty … general, rural poverty in particular and microfinance services andinstitutions in the developing countries (using the cases of … selected countries),the increase in popularity of microfinance as an instrument for addressing theproblem of rural poverty in …
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This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Swedensince 1990 - a period characterized by increased influence from the financial market andextreme economic events - using data from the Household Income Survey. The elderly werenot isolated as pensions were cut,...
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The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … various poverty lines... …
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This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban workingclass in 1904, using a re-discovered survey.1 We investigate overcrowding and we find majorregional differences...
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counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposingchanges in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax …
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Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turnof the 20th century … deficiencies. Weuse these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904... …
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Wirtschaftsethik primär behandelten Probleme wie Umweltverschmutzung, Korruption, Arbeitslosigkeit oder Armut nicht lösbar sind, ohne …
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