In this chapter, the authors use data from the 2016 Financial Inclusion Insights (FII) program for Nigeria to present new evidence on the effects of financial inclusion on household poverty. The authors add to the discourse on the association between financial inclusion and poverty by examining...

In this chapter, Awaworyi Churchill conducts a meta-analysis to review the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction and microenterprise performance. He considers four proxies for poverty and three for microenterprise performance in order to examine the empirical evidence and to provide a...

We review the empirical evidence on the impact of microcredit on poverty in Bangladesh. Drawing on evidence from seven empirical studies with 306 estimates, we examine the impact of microcredit on three proxies of poverty - income, assets and consumption/expenditure. After addressing issues of...

We examine whether having a parent who smoked during one's childhood or adolescence increases the probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that people who had a parent who smoked when they were young are 0.8 to 1.4 percentage points more likely to be in energy poverty later...