Escaping the Poverty Trap proposes early childhood investment policies that could decisively change the prospects for …. Insufficient education is cited as the principal vector of poverty throughout the life cycle and across generations. …

Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that … and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on microfinance and poverty. The view of microcredit that emerges is …

the imposition of an additional direct income tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on … poverty. We also examine three alternative policies to the resource dividend (RD) policy. The results indicate that the RD …

This article synthesizes an extensive literature on how local characteristics might affect the nature of poverty …, particularly U.S. rural poverty. The attributes discussed include the natural environment, economic structure, public and community … can affect poverty and indicates what this implies about effective antipoverty policies. Multiple causal factors affect …

Despite significant poverty reductions in nonmetropolitan America during the 1990s, Census 2000 reports that hundreds … of counties still possess high poverty rates. They have not only populations that are disproportionately minority, lack … the potential antipoverty benefits of economic development in high-poverty counties, the authors compare their poverty …

This analysis seeks to better understand the geography of American poverty over time. Cluster analysis is used to group … 34,908 minor civil divisions according to their similarity in mean-centered poverty rates from 1980 to 2000. Logistic … groupings and that over three thousand subcounty places had poverty rates of nearly 20 percent above the national average going …