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Multidimensional targeting and evaluation : a general framework with an application to a poverty program in Bangladesh

Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - 2013

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

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Consumption, credit, and institutions : using field research and theory to consider poverty alleviation

Wheatley, W. Parker - In: Forum for social economics 43 (2014) 1, pp. 57-96

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Do multiple loans from microfinance institutions help the rural poor woman? : empirical evidence from Ghana

Alnaa, Samuel Erasmus - In: Inventi impact: emerging economies (2014) 1, pp. 20-37

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The impact of micro-credit on employment : evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Kahn, Azhar; Rahman, Twyeafur; Wright, Robert E. - 2016

This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non-borrowers. Pipeline borrowers are included to...

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