evolved mostly as an intellectual/academic shell, in which poverty eradication, except in rhetoric, is a peripheral concern … causing a shift toward substantively dealing with the challenge of poverty. However, beyond the issue of type of enterprises …/monetary sector, as opposed to the real sector, may prove inadequate for development and poverty alleviation. This paper explores some …

The evaluation of the poverty of beneficiaries is a topic rarely raised as is the impact of microfinance. The different … methodology of identifying the poor based on the micro-multidimensional measure of poverty developed by Chakravarty, Mukherjee and … Ranade (1998). Overall, this approach has found a supremacy of the incidence of non-monetary poverty by gender but not …

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

(MFIs) move away from targeting the poor and towards better-off clients. Using two different measures of poverty, the paper …

out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 … participants and raised the potential for income growth that contributed to poverty reduction. …

efficiency and other factors on the poverty status of micro entrepreneurs using logistic regression. The average technical … beverage products. The factors that influence the poverty status of micro-entrepreneurs are technical efficiency, income, KUR …

poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty. …