This paper aims to evaluate the impact of a microlending program on ameliorating measured poverty within its client … Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF), a database using the Progress out of Poverty (PPI) Scorecard as a measure of poverty. Analysis … clients to reduce their measured poverty. Loan size, duration, and the economic activity supported all have strongly …

(NWTF), a database using the Progress Out of Poverty (PPI) Scorecard as a measure of poverty. Analysis using both OLS and … measured poverty. Loan size, duration, and the economic activity supported all have strongly identifiable effects. Moreover …

Rural poverty is often discussed in combination with spatial inequality where rural poor face worse problems with … of rural poverty based on data from the Rural Household Panel Survey of Pakistan Round-1 (2012). The multilevel binary … logistic model is used to integrate concurrent individual and district-level variables to explore area-level effects on poverty …

PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the regression discontinuity … noneligible households in the control localities. This paper - a product of the Poverty and Gender Unit, Latin America and the … Caribbean Region - is part of a larger effort in the region to develop and apply rigorous methods in the evaluation of poverty …

This study employs the logistic regression method to examine the effect of financial inclusion on the level of poverty … the level of poverty. This empirical outcome is further validated by the results of the Probit regression technique which … show a significant negative relationship between financial inclusion and poverty in the state. Based on these empirical …

regression ; Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures ; NHANES …

We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an … integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies … time-reversion consistency and sub-period additivity. Unlike the existing poverty decomposition methods, it allows us to …

households.Some of the paper's results are similar to typical findings in poverty research, such as U-shaped relationship between …

This paper analyzes several modifications to improve a simple measure of vulnerability as expected poverty. Firstly, in …

We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an … integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies … time-reversion consistency and sub-period additivity. Unlike the existing poverty decomposition methods, it allows us to …