This article is distinct in its application of the logit transformation to the poverty ratio for the purpose of … by three indicators related to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and then examine its effect on poverty reduction at the … statistically significant and robust effect on decreasing the poverty ratio. …

undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

(english) New factors such as governance, ownership and citizen’s participation are now a central focus of development … programmes, especially in the scope of the new international poverty reduction strategies (PRSP and HIPC initiatives). To gain a … to be thought of as extra-economic dimensions such as subjective forms of poverty, quality of institutions (especially …

The new century opened with an unprecedented declaration of solidarity and determination to rid the world of poverty … — rich and poor — to doing all they can to eradicate poverty, promote human dignity and equality and achieve peace, democracy … development and reducing poverty by 2015 or earlier. Emanating from the Millennium Declaration, the Millennium Development Goals …

Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most … important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty …-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not just on poverty of incomes but on poverty from a human development …

, and thus detrimental to human development. The quality of growth is therefore as important as its quantity; for poverty …

returns are not affected by increased labor availability over a certain labor-land ratio. Female participation in off …-farm labor markets increases at higher levels of labor availability, but participation in women's groups' only increases as labor … scarcity is relaxed at lower levels. Alternatively, male participation in off-farm work increases over all levels of labor …

It is often claimed that decentralisation is effective for the reduction of poverty due to in-herent opportunities for … higher popular participation and increased efficiency in public service delivery. This paper is a qualitative assessment of … the potential of the Ugandan decentralisation reform for poverty alleviation. The Ugandan government initiated an am …