contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women’s debt/credit in quantitative … sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … household debt. On a theoretical level, these results highlight the gendered earmarking of debt and credit: male and female …

unsustainable levels of debt. Using survey data from South Africa, we confirm that poor people are indeed overly optimistic, and … also that optimism is positively and significantly related to debt accumulation. …

alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects … macroeconomic stability and growth. Second, the tools of macroeconomic policy-fiscal and monetary policy together with debt … deficit and debt ratios. This paper discusses these macroeconomic dimensions, focusing on the developing world. The paper …