"It is said that COVID-19 pandemic has turned back the poverty clock. As such, there is need to have social mechanisms … institutions that could be used to alleviate poverty. This book explores the impact of COVID-19 on Islamic finance to better … understand the effectiveness of Islamic social finance in uplifting those who have been inflicted by poverty overnight due to …

start of the millennium. However, the impact of this on poverty reduction is still not well understood and this led the … growth and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa. This volume induces two review chapters on the impact of growth on … poverty reduction, and on the impact of widespread poverty on economic growth, and argues that both relationships are …

, household energy needs and vulnerability -- Chapter 3. Energy poverty and health pathologies: an empirical study on the French … Case -- Chapter 4. Vulnerability to motor fuel price increases: socio-spatial patterns in Italy -- Chapter 5. The gender-energy-poverty … Ecobonus as energy poverty mitigation policy: is energy efficiency for all?"? -- Chapter 9. Energy poverty and just …

Gender, time use, and poverty: introduction -- Gender and time poverty in sub-Saharan Africa -- A review of empirical … evidence on time use in Africa from UN-sponsored surveys -- Measuring time poverty and analyzing its determinants: concepts and … application to Guinea -- Labor shortages despite underemployment? seasonality in time use in Malawi -- Poverty reduction from full …