Group Dynamics have been largely neglected when the impacts of microfinance on poverty reduction are assessed. This … potential outcomes of this fresh approach to the analysis of poverty impacts are argued; they may have dramatic implications for …

sustainability and poverty reduction. By giving centre stage to the study of group dynamics and using principles of social psychology … of these schemes by disrupting the social fabric of communities, creating more poverty and excluding the poorest and most …

poverty activities. Under what conditions is work on many or few poverty problems by a single organization warranted? Moreover … inadequately. NGOs working in the poverty field are a natural focus for this research, because poverty is a multidimensional …

income, poverty, income inequality, and literacy. Our analysis shows that at both state- and district-level public health is … negatively associated with average income and positively associated with poverty. But, at both levels, controlling for poverty … negative predictor. At the less aggregated district-level, both poverty and literacy predict public health but literacy has a …

existing fuel subsidies and fiscal balance and at analysing the poverty impact of phasing out fuel subsidies. Applying a CGE …-microsimulation, this study found that removing 25% of fuel subsidies increases the incidence of poverty by 0.259 percentage points. If this … money were fully allocated to government spending, the poverty incidence would decrease by 0.27 percentage points. Moreover …

environment for human development and elimination of poverty. If the preoccupations of the governance institutions are centered on … the interests, needs, and fundamental rights of the population, progress may be achieved in the fight against poverty. If … against poverty and reaching the objective of poverty reduction. …

poverty rate in New Zealand. Although minimum wage workers are more likely to live in the poorest households, they are … poverty rate by less than one-tenth of a percentage point. …

This paper contributes to understand the microeconomic determinants of household income dynamics in poverty and … income distribution and poverty would change as a result of a different set of microsimulations. In particular, the … distributional structure of 1998 is imposed in 1990. The evidence suggest that while poverty responds strongly to the simulation …

coexistence of acceptable levels of development and, at the same time, worrying poverty conditions of broad groups of people … continue to have, in the current time as in past decades, high levels of poverty and low rates of development. In the case of … Mexico, it was observed an inverse relation, based on HDI and FGT indexes, between development and poverty. Therefore, the …