We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the …

This study was conducted in Malaysia to examine the effectiveness of the microfinance programme for urban single mother … entrepreneurs in MSMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic and Movement Control Order (MCO). Implemented as a response to the pandemic, the … microfinance programmes. Using a positivist paradigm and employing quantitative methods through online questionnaire distribution …

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 …