worldwide as a business model financially sustainable and able to fight poverty and social exclusion. Empirical evidence … confirms microcredit ability to mitigate poverty but its financial sustainability is controversial. Using 2006-2009 Portuguese …

This paper examines the impact of workers’ remittances on growth and poverty reduction in developing Asia … on poverty reduction through increasing income, smoothing consumption and easing capital constraints of the poor, they …

We review the literature on the relationship between agricultural trade policy reform and poverty, and the results of … does not result in significant cuts to applied tariffs, and has very modest overall effects on welfare. Poverty in the … consistently lower poverty. …

This paper examines the link between poverty and income, on the one hand, and human capital and location, on the other … household head to the education of the most educated member. The paper finds poverty to be most severe and persistent for … perpetuating poverty. …

We are here today and tomorrow to examine concentrated poverty - that is, poverty that affects more than 40 percent of …

The article first surveys the debate about poverty measurement and recent poverty alleviation in India by focusing on … the main contributions. The question of whether the economic reforms of the 1990s have accelerated or delayed poverty … reduction, or possibly contributed to increased poverty, is addressed by using the state-level computations of the Human …

This article contributes towards unpacking the relationships between gender, poverty and inequality at several … interrelated levels. It explores the concept of poverty as a useful starting point not only for understanding how gender fits into … it, but also for understanding why gender is not reducible to poverty. It provides a brief history of how poverty came to …

Set within the context of re-conceptualizing poverty to emphasize its multidimensionality, this paper argues for the … physical safety are major concerns for the poor, often dominating their lives to a greater extent than income poverty. However …, the paper also illustrates how violence, security and poverty interrelate in the eyes of the poor, often in causal ways …