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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of savings and loan groups (SGs), alone and combined with a rotating labor scheme ( Ajuda Mútua ), on the economic conditions of the rural poor in Nampula province in Mozambique. Design/methodology/approach Three pairs of districts were...
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This article explores why a massive effort to promote peace, democratic governance, economic recovery, and poverty …
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' (CBEs') impacts on poverty reduction at the household level in northern Thailand, in the context of the UN Millennium … Development Goals. The focus is on the use of principal component analysis to develop a context‐specific definition of poverty … projects and poverty measurement have been integrated into a single poverty impact assessment framework in relation to CBEs …
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/actual “poverty tours”, the article argues that while Antigua NGOs develop and host these poverty tours as a means of moving “hearts …
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Purpose – The paper seeks to examine the inter‐temporal causal relationship between financial development and poverty … Kenya a spur to poverty reduction? Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a trivariate causality model based on … savings rate as an intermittent variable in the bivariate causality setting between financial development and poverty …
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most potential for policy makers/managers fighting poverty by using telework. Originality/value – The paper contributes to …
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to analyse the cross‐country variation in the growth elasticity of poverty across a … variables that may explain the cross‐country variation in the growth elasticity of poverty, the paper sets up a theoretical … the growth elasticity of poverty. Practical implications – Countries that reduce regulatory burdens, improve literacy …
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, namely that social expenditure, domestic investment, financial inclusion, income inequality, income and human poverty are …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the dilemma of global sustainable economic development and poverty …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the poverty rates of Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan, representing … majority Muslim populations, and of India as a minority Muslim population, according to Ibn Khaldun's dynamic model on poverty …. Design/methodology/approach – According to Ibn Khaldun, poverty is not merely influenced by economic dimension. He initiated …
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