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better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …
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transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy … this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for … advances in finance for inclusive development. The analytical approach consists of first, situating issues of exclusive growth …
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The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing … opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We survey about 180 … recently published papers to provide recent information technology advances in finance for inclusive development. Retained …
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The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing … opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We systematically review … about 180 recently published papers to provide recent information technology advances in finance for inclusive development …
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Financing from institutional investors will be critical to achieving the sustainable development goals and curbing … capital. Partly as a result, such initiatives have been unable to reach the scale required for development finance to go “from …
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This paper analyzes gender-differences with respect to microfinance repayment-rates using a large global dataset covering 350 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in 70 countries. The results indicate that more women clients is associated with lower portfolio-at-risk, lower write-offs, and lower...
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consensus that incidence of poverty with reference to the calorie intake criterion has declined since the mid-1970s to about 35 … assessments? What are its implications for the observed trends in poverty estimates in the context of dynamic structural changes … in the rural economy? The study concludes that the estimates do not show a real reduction in poverty but only a reduction …
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We review The Great Indian Poverty Debate edited by Angus Deaton and Valerie Kozel. The volume has great value as a … survey of the complex issues involved in estimating poverty in India, which have recently been the subject of substantial … controversy. However, the volume has notable omissions. The official poverty lines presently applied in India are of doubtful …
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Time was when solar energy was facilely dismissed as impractical, inefficient, and pricey. In recent years, however, innovations in technology, regulation, and financing have resulted in remarkable efficiency improvements and price reductions, thereby reversing the skepticism about this...
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