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for this new measure is the current level of wellbeing of a household as opposed to another benchmark such as the poverty …) axiomatic measure of vulnerability to poverty. We apply a measure of both vulnerability to downside risk and to poverty to data … is highly non-linear. While moderately but not extremely poor households are relatively vulnerable to extreme poverty …
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The purpose of the present study is to examine whether microfinance reduces poverty in Bangladesh drawing upon the … household poverty. However, the application of treatment effects model and PSM to each cross-sectional component of the panel … data shows that the poverty reducing effect of MFI on poverty was significantly reduced over the years. This suggests the …
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This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) three- decade-long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains a local and an informal economy...
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This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the current findings of recent research on aid allocation to fragile states. Fragile states are defined by the donor community as those with either critically poor policies or poorly performing institutions, or...
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The low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program has developed over two million rental homes for low-income households since 1986. The perception of deterioration in school quality has been a main reason for community opposition to LIHTC projects in middle-and upper-income areas. In this paper,...
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In this working paper, the authors introduce an MDG Progress Index to assess how on or off track countries are toward MDG targets. They find evidence of dramatic achievements by many poor countries, such as Honduras, Laos, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ghana. These...
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Muhammad Yunus, the Founder of Microcredit and the Grameen Bank that he established in Bangladesh some thirty years ago, received last year the Nobel Prize... for Peace! The small loans granted to groups of poor women were considered a financial innovation that contributed to the success of...
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Currency Board regime and economics adjustments. First, we define initial poverty profile of different household groups divided …-shocks or economic policies on household poverty. Simulations of economic conditions experimented by Argentina during the period … show that social inequalities and poverty became the main real adjustment variable in such monetary system. …
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consumption, and an increase in poverty. We thus recommend a gradual approach to tax reform that can make the adjustment process …
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