: Assessing the Impact of Microfinance on Poverty and Inequality: A Study of 5 SAARC Nations using Causality Analysis -- Chapter …: Role of Microfinance in reduction of Poverty in India -- Chapter 15: Predicting the Likelihood of Loan Default Among … of global economic recessions. Also, it emphasizes upon their capabilities in reducing poverty and inequality as the …

Global deregulation of current and capital account is often touted as successful means to reduce poverty and inequality …, income inequality between countries grows, the absolute number of people living in poverty increases, and poverty rate … the poor. Using data from the World Bank, the IMF and the UN, we test the impact of increased deregulation on the incomes …

The authors illustrate some of the potential consequences of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral … trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and … poverty line that would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of …

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April … recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction. Our baseline case suggests that globally the number of people … Development. The fallout from the pandemic will also exacerbate the geographic concentration of poverty, as exemplified by the …