Recently several countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, have at least partially reversed their earlier moves towards compulsory defined-contribution schemes. This paper concentrates on Poland, which just reduced contributions going to the...

Recently several countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, have at least partially reversed their earlier moves towards compulsory defined-contribution schemes. This paper concentrates on Poland, which just reduced contributions going to the...

The article ventures into the women-poverty nexus , underscoring the importance of giving women earning power as a means to cut the vicious cycle of poverty that destines them to the status of perpetual subordination living on the periphery of the society. Facilitating and supporting micro and...

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and...

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and...

This paper contributes to the Islamic studies literature, by exploring why many Islamic scholars believe that Islam bans conventional lending and mandates Islamic finance, and how the scriptural injunction against ribā is redefined when we consider the features of modern economic systems. The...

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals calls for the elimination of many global challenges related to poverty. The first Sustainable Development Goal – the elimination of poverty – targets the challenges faced by the more than 700 million people who live on less...

This study examines whether microfinance is an effective poverty-reduction intervention tool and the link between access to microfinance and poverty reduction in northern Ethiopia. The study tests the hypothesis that access to/ or participation in microfinance eradicates poverty reduction and...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between growth of micro credits for production as a tool of social inclusion of vulnerable people and the relationship with the decreased rates of poverty and indigence in Latin America countries for the period 2008-2011. The work...

Spanish Abstract: El propósito de este trabajo es analizar la relación existente entre el crecimiento de los microcréditos para la producción como herramienta de inclusión social de sectores desprotegidos y la relación existente con la disminución de los índices de indigencia y pobreza...