This article posits the issue of American poverty and governments' inability to significantly alter this adverse social … condition. While data suggests there has been a substantial and measurable improvement in poverty rates over the past four … decades, the fact remains, poverty is an inherent and permanent factor of the American social, economic and political …

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of developments in the microfinance sector before and after the Lehman … developing countries. The findings indicate that microfinance has been part of the same credit boom observed in the traditional … capital. This raises the question whether the crisis resilience the microfinance sector has shown in the past remains a …

understanding of gender-based asymmetries. -- state ; inequality ; difference ; citizenship ; social exclusion ; gender ; poverty …