alleviate their poverty. Research shows that the poor need financial tools that are appropriate, flexible, convenient, quick and … Kenya is still low. In particular, the very poor people who are characterised by low literacy levels and generally low … affordable. The mobile money channel and the agent network provide the best avenue so far for reaching the very poor, but the …

, widowed populations, the majority of whom are elderly poor women, gain the most. Our investigation into the underlying …We leverage the expansion of the National Social Assistance Program (NSAP) in India in 2006 to estimate the impact of … access to public pensions on three measures of depression for the elderly in below poverty line households, using a …

-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …