of the poverty reduction strategy in Cambodia. This work was carried out in 2002 by the Regional Office for Asia and the …/World Bank pilot scheme to support the PRSP process and to strengthen the employment and decent work aspects of poverty reduction …

Using recently completed quot;poverty mapsquot; for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact … on poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to … their relative poverty status. They find large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as districts or …

on Grameen Progress out of Poverty Index™ (PPI™) for Cambodia applied to a sample of borrowers randomly extracted from a … questions discussed here are: Is microcredit targeted to poor people? Has the poverty rate of the sample changed in last six … months? and What percentage of male vs. female clients is poor? We found an average poverty likelihood of about 8 …

In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below ….25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health …

investigate the relationship. To ensure robustness, the study uses three poverty reduction proxies which are household consumption … when household consumption expenditure is used as a poverty reduction proxy, while in the long run an insignificant …This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from …

paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or … income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health …

out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 … household labor income isolating the biases that may result from non-random program placement, censoring in self-employment work …

impact of financial literacy on poverty, which is a downstream welfare indicator. Consequently, we have constructed a … composite financial literacy index. Our results reveal that financial literacy plays an important role in reducing poverty. This …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household …

Household debt has increased significantly since the second half of the 20th century, making it one of the cornerstones … of household financial behaviour. It is, however, necessary to monitor that indebtedness does not spiral out of control … the poverty framework, while also taking into account the (potential) leverage by assets. We focus on a case study of …