having a very low cost structure – making it lucrative for banks to target the rural poor. Poverty is an insidious problem in … states, the issue is even more pressing. High levels of poverty lead to high rates of migration towards the North. Augmented …

opportunities, is a central element of viable poverty reduction strategy for Bangladesh as well. Without significant poverty …

which were ill prepared for these structural changes in market demands realized record unemployment rates, pervasive poverty …

What factors led to the reduction of poverty in Latin America from 1990 onwards? This article looks into the key … factors that have played a part in reducing poverty in the region, including, in particular, employment and remuneration for … families in the lowest deciles of income distribution and hence in poverty indicators …

especially those concerning the acclaimed obsession with poverty and unemployment and the evolution to its categorization and …

What drives poverty? We propose a research approach to study poverty by focusing on individual decision-making behavior … poverty. This approach enables policy makers to formulate efficient and effective policy and provides economists with an … alternative research tool to study poverty …

explores trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period. To steer clear of an unduly optimistic … conclusion, assumptions are chosen that would tend to show the least decline in poverty. Whilst there were no strong trends in … poverty for the period 1995 to 2000, both data series show a considerable decline in poverty after 2000, particularly in the …

economic impact.Yet if COVID-19 exacerbated and exposed the state’s poverty problems, it was not the cause of them. Even before … domestic product grew 3.4 percent in 2019, and while its unemployment rate was slightly above the national average, it still …