Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the opinions of national stakeholders on the costs and benefits of … Ireland) and Italy. Findings – There were some differences in the experiences of IFRS implementation between stakeholders from … different countries. However, there was widespread agreement that costs exceeded the benefits of reporting under the new …

Purpose This study aims to examine the determinants of poverty among microcredit beneficiaries in Pakistan Poverty … Poverty Alleviation Fund. Using the national poverty line, this study classified borrowers into the poor and the non-poor. A … Tobit model was estimated to examine the determinants of poverty among the borrowers. Findings The model was found to fit …

/actual “poverty tours”, the article argues that while Antigua NGOs develop and host these poverty tours as a means of moving “hearts …

defined as vulnerable in that they were persistently in poverty over a defined period of time. The vulnerable groups were …

the results of confirmatory factor analysis in which two dimensions of objective QoL – a “benefits” dimension and a “costs …