greatly reduce national poverty over the short-term. In this regard, agricultural growth is more effective, albeit with slower …-fundamentalist” approach to African development, the short-term imperative of reducing poverty necessitates further agricultural investment. …

increased soy production both reduces poverty indicators and raises median rural incomes, but is also associated with increased …

main “models” of social protection in the region: one based on age-based income transfers in the middle income countries in … Southern Africa, and another more diverse and incipient group of programs providing a mix of poverty-based transfers in the low … income countries in Eastern, Central, and West Africa. It concludes that for an effective institutional framework for social …

” and “qualitative,” or “Q-Squared,” approaches to poverty analysis in the Global South, and a large body of literature had … value it has added for understanding and explaining poverty. The evidence strongly suggests that Q-Squared approaches have … aided our understanding of the characteristics of the poor and the causes of poverty. …

We test the hypothesis that microfinance reduces poverty at the macro level using cross-country and panel data which … per capita tends to have lower levels of poverty indices. Contrary to recent micro evidence, our results suggest that … microfinance significantly reduces poverty at macro level and thus reinforce the case for channeling funds from development finance …

In the capability approach to poverty, wellbeing is threatened by both deficits of wealth and deficits of agency. Sen … introduce another condition, “frustrated freedom,” in which higher levels of agency belief can heighten the poverty effects of …