The Joint Staff Advisory Note discusses the progress in implementing the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Zambia. The government has officially launched its second PRSP, known as the Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP) for 2006-10. The FNDP builds on the achievements of the first...

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to disadvantaged people and the financially excluded, often with a social mission of poverty alleviation and women empowerment. There are many different forms of microfinance institutions (MFIs): for-profit, not-for-profit and state-owned, all...

Throughout the developing world, there is a desperate quest for a way out of the financial predicament confronting the rural poor. In most countries of the developing regions, especially South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the rural population forms the larger proportion of the entire population...

Wie sprechen wir über Armut? Was wissen wir über Armut? Wie bearbeiten wir Armut? Das Handbuch liefert Antworten auf diese Fragen und bietet sowohl Überblick als auch Detailinformation. Es richtet sich an Studierende und Lehrende der Sozialwissenschaften, aber auch an PraktikerInnen aus der...