Together with Singapore, Malaysia is one of the successful cases in Asia achieving rapid economic growth. However the issues of poverty still being discussed today. Amanah Ikthiar Malaysia (AIM) is one of the dominant players contributing to the poverty eradication program in Malaysia engaging...

This study employs a cross sectional design with stratified random sampling method to examine the factors that are associated with repayment problem encountered by clients of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM)'s microcredit program. Findings of this study show that fungibility issue, number of...

The objective of this study is to examine how Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM)'s clients have been using the microcredit received and the effect of microcredit utilization on household income and asset. To obtain the above mentioned objectives, this study employed a cross sectional stratified...

The main objective of this study is to measure the impact of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia's (AIM) microcredit schemes on hardcore poor household's quality of life in Peninsular Malaysia. This study employed a cross-sectional design with stratified random sampling method to examine whether...

This paper examines the causal relationships between trade liberalization growth of the Nigerian economy and poverty. This study applied time series data for Nigeria. We employed the recently introduced Pesaran et al (2001) ARDL approach. Evidence from the study suggest that trade liberalization...

This paper examines the linkage between financial liberalization, economic growth and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan African countries (SSA). The study apply the recent panel Co-integration and vector error correction mechanism to address the heterogeneity and cross-border interdependence over...