The Sitio Electrification Program (SEP) and the Household Electrification Program (HEP) are two ongoing rural …. Using an econometric regression for studying the poverty reduction impacts of rural electrification in the Philippines, we … also find evidence of a positive relationship between rural electrification and poverty reduction. However, in order to …

investigate the relationship. To ensure robustness, the study uses three poverty reduction proxies which are household consumption … when household consumption expenditure is used as a poverty reduction proxy, while in the long run an insignificant …This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from …

impact of financial literacy on poverty, which is a downstream welfare indicator. Consequently, we have constructed a … composite financial literacy index. Our results reveal that financial literacy plays an important role in reducing poverty. This …

a household. What detail is lost if we use the household as our main unit of analysis in the Chronic Poverty Research …Until recently the household was taken to be an undifferentiated entity for the purposes of data collection and social … and economic analysis. Even where researchers want to look at intra-household differentiation it can be difficult due to …