unsustainable levels of debt. Using survey data from South Africa, we confirm that poor people are indeed overly optimistic, and … also that optimism is positively and significantly related to debt accumulation. …

spending and expenses: cash/fund directly generated from the sale of agricultural products, farmer's past savings, farm …

This paper explores the link between poverty and resource allocation, including the management of natural resources, by … household must decide on an optimal combination of investments in the two forms of capital, given their savings capacity …'s investment strategy and, consequently, resource management and household poverty: (i) Changes in output and input prices, and (ii …

The HIPC initiative for debt relief in the poorest countries has been extended to cover more countries. Zambia is one … the countries accepted under the enhanced initiative for a debt relief of US$ 3.8 billion. In this paper, the possible … effects of this debt relief are analysed using a social accounting matrix as a tool of analysis. Two alternative approaches …

The objective of this paper is to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of debt relief savings for … poverty reduction in HIPC countries by focusing on one important channel of impact—human capital accumulation. Our simulation … results suggest that poverty and growth objectives would be mainly enhanced if resources are targeted at the primary and …

alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects … macroeconomic stability and growth. Second, the tools of macroeconomic policy-fiscal and monetary policy together with debt … deficit and debt ratios. This paper discusses these macroeconomic dimensions, focusing on the developing world. The paper …

Household debt has increased significantly since the second half of the 20th century, making it one of the cornerstones … the poverty framework, while also taking into account the (potential) leverage by assets. We focus on a case study of …-indebted, our analyses point towards the importance of low disposable income and the ownership of non-mortgage debt in explaining …

medium term the impact of the debt on poverty is not very harmful, in the longer run it has a significant negative impact …. For the Indian states we find that government investment in the social sector is extremely important to reduce poverty …, but the government's debt burden is actually stopping several states from attaining the MDG targets. Although, in the …

sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and …, likely to strengthen the association between debt and poverty for women, and in particular to exacerbate female … contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women's debt/credit in quantitative …