Poverty reduction has become a top goal in the socio-economic development strategies of countries and a topic of … interest for researchers. A number of prior empirical studies have identified the importance of financial inclusion to poverty … reduction. However, most of these studies assess the effect of financial inclusion on income poverty reduction. There are …

inclusion on poverty and income inequality. The results provide evidence that high- and middle-high-income economies with high … financial inclusion have significantly lower poverty, while no such relation exists for middle-low and low-income economies. The … nonlinearities in the cross-country determinants and impacts of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality across income …

While economic growth is important for poverty reduction, the rather stellar performance of the Philippines in economic … growth has still not translated into reduction of poverty. This is in large part due to issues pertaining to distribution … processes. The study looks at trends in various statistics on poverty and income distribution, and then examines how disparities …

"This book explores the issue of whether microfinance institutions empower women has become a heated debate not only in …

This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare. The tools are … of measurement assumptions (such as the choice of inequality and poverty-aversion parameters, and that of the poverty …

Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical … Coordination Board. Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up … achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The disparities across the regions remain wide both in terms of poverty and …