This paper empirically examines the effect of financial development on poverty for a sample of developing countries … development on the poor when poverty is measured by the headcount index or the poverty gap at the cut-off line of $2 day (absolute … poverty). This finding is robust to the choice of a more conservative poverty line based on $1.25 a day. However, there is …

.”Sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) try to provide a growth parameter which eliminates extreme poverty. The … manage those risks can affect development goals, including economic growth and poverty reduction …

We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the …

concerns. Academics have voiced a numerous conceptual critiques of this proxy but, to date, the lack of reliable client poverty …. Fortunately, we have access to the Microfinanza dataset, which contains client poverty and average loan size data for a reasonable … between average loan size or one of its variants and measures of client poverty. Regressing MFIs financial performance …

a household. What detail is lost if we use the household as our main unit of analysis in the Chronic Poverty Research …

In this paper, we would like to know whether microfinance has effects on poverty reduction, and if the degree of these … effects varies according to the sex of the beneficiaries. After a specification of the binary indicator of poverty, the … of poverty, the probit model emphasizes that women are more favored in access to microcredit (ii) second, in terms of …