addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the … poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural … hunger or extreme poverty, the poor must be allowed to obtain meaningful access to financial services through the design of …

debe ser sobrestimado.English Abstract: The relevance of the Microfinance Institutions as a tool to fight poverty, mainly … fight against poverty should not be overestimated …

The evaluation of the poverty of beneficiaries is a topic rarely raised as is the impact of microfinance. The different … debate from survey data collected in Mali in 2007 regarding the beneficiaries of microfinance services. The paper adopts the … methodology of identifying the poor based on the micro-multidimensional measure of poverty developed by Chakravarty, Mukherjee and …

In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below ….25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the …

In recent decades there have been considerable steps forward in terms of understanding poverty. This paper identifies … three ‘meta-dimensions' of poverty, which relate to: (i) depth and severity; (ii) breadth and multidimensionality; and (iii …) time and duration. The advances that have been made in terms of conceptualising, measuring and analysing poverty in each of …

poverty.The basic premise of the work-first model that continuing participation in the labor force will lead to economic self … at least three quarters a year over a multi-year period, which are the prerequisites for rising above the poverty … these workers to the poverty threshold would increase economic output by another three-quarters of a billion dollars a year …

A new class of chronic poverty measures is constructed that builds upon Jalan and Ravallion (1998) but does not require … the resources of a person into a permanent income standard that is then compared to a poverty line to determine when a …) poverty measure with the same parameter β is applied to the distribution of permanent income standards to measure overall …