Exploring the possible link between both poverty and terrorism may have some importance and may also provide grounds of tackling said issues concurrently. This paper looks to discover if poverty acts as a cause of terrorism if it is simply just a conducive element for breeding terrorists or...

This paper aims to answer the question of why several nations are yet to develop. Many economists have embarked on numerous missions to understand why some poor countries have developed over the years yet others continue to struggle. Some have attributed the failures of struggling nations to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider the success and failure of microfinance institutions in generating economic growth over the past 30 years and propose a dual criterion of evaluation. Design/methodology/approach: It surveys the empirical literature on microfinance and finds that...