: Assessing the Impact of Microfinance on Poverty and Inequality: A Study of 5 SAARC Nations using Causality Analysis -- Chapter …: Role of Microfinance in reduction of Poverty in India -- Chapter 15: Predicting the Likelihood of Loan Default Among … of global economic recessions. Also, it emphasizes upon their capabilities in reducing poverty and inequality as the …

This paper studies the association between financial development, financial stability, and poverty for a sample of 109 … development, and only a few recent studies have looked at the effects of financial stability on poverty. However, none of the … existing studies has looked at the interaction effect of the two on poverty. Our contribution to this literature is manifold …

deeply ingrained poverty and social exclusion, restore social cohesion and lay the foundations for more equitable …

of poverty in the countries in question. The growth impact is first identified by comparing average per capita growth in … the two years prior to the crisis to that in the crisis year and the following year. The poverty impact is then measured … by applying the elasticity of poverty with respect to growth. Alternative estimates consider results of surveys in the …

improvements. The present paper seeks to contribute to this evolution, focusing on the “Global Risk Appetite Index” (GRAI) class of …

Index maintained by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW Köln) captures the phenomenon in six different …