The purpose of this study is to investigate the economic impact of microfinance institutions on borrower households in particular the impacts of small amount of loans in a high inflationary economy like Pakistan. The study is based on primary data and comprises of a sample of two hundred...

Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...

This paper presents the results of a three-year evaluation performed on the first cohorts of Chile Solidario, the most important anti-poverty program in Chile. The paper presents a description of the program, emphasizing the mechanism by which people were admitted into the program. We then...

Although the term globalization still awaits a globally agreed definition, it is commonly used in different walks of life like academia, politics, media and policy makers etc. It may be termed ‘all for good and good for all', or exactly opposite ‘all for sin and sin for all', reality reckons...

A huge 5 years foreign funded project implemented covering the whole of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa aiming at provision of rural water supply and sanitation ended in 2009. The Project was designed to improve not only the existing water and sanitation services but also hygiene behavioral patterns amongst...

Searching for the "State of the Art" for Food Pantries is a literature review I began in August of 2011, and finished analyzing in early April 2012. It looks at the results of a search through several databases of journals, magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals from 1931 through July...

It does not take more than a glance at the headlines to see that European countries are in trouble. From Greece to Britain, from France to Portugal, it is becoming clear that the modern welfare state is unsustainable, facing fiscal catastrophe, stagnant economic growth, punishing taxes, and...

This paper takes information of the second and third surveys in order to verify the displaced people's rights conducted by the Comisión de Seguimiento, the consultantship for human rights and displacement CODHES for its initials in Spanish, and the Investigation Center for Development CID for...

The Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database is a user-friendly tool that provides summary information on social assistance interventions in developing countries. It provides a summary of the evidence available on the effectiveness of social assistance interventions in developing...

Although a substantial literature examines the relationship between culture and health in myriad individual contexts, a lack of comparative data across settings has resulted in disparate and imprecise conceptualizations of the concept for scholars and practitioners alike. This article examines...