This paper aims to evaluate the impact of a microlending program on ameliorating measured poverty within its client … population, with the aim of improving that impact.  We analyze over 18,000 women micro-finance clients of the Negros Women for … Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF), a database using the Progress out of Poverty (PPI) Scorecard as a measure of poverty.  Analysis …

Purpose – Poverty reduction remains one of the main goals of development efforts, as evidenced by the adoption of the … relationship between trade (exports) and employment and how the relationship reduces poverty through the instrumentality of … employment to reduce poverty, while agricultural trade, particularly exports, are capable of reducing poverty and inequality in …

Examines the evolution of the approach of the ILO to the problem of poverty between 1919 and 1995. …

Proposes a methodology for measuring national poverty lines. …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have …