, Peru. In this first institutional analysis in ACCION's Poverty Outreach project, the authors analyze client income data to …

Microcredit is a widely practiced, widely revered technique of international development. It aims to increase incomes … activity. Microcredit, despite its partly "market" approach to the capital needs of the poor, has a deeply ambivalent … relationship with global capital and globalizing markets. It is an open question whether microcredit is an activity aimed at …

Microcredit is a widely practiced, widely revered technique of international development. It aims to increase incomes … activity. Microcredit, despite its partly market approach to the capital needs of the poor, has a deeply ambivalent … relationship with global capital and globalizing markets. It is an open question whether microcredit is an activity aimed at …

Empowerment of the poor entails three basic inter-linked dimensions – generation of employment (and income), reduction … groups (SHGs), formed for distributing the microcredit benefits, inspired by the success of the Bangladesh Grameen experiment … take the poor to a new domain of economic empowerment and social upliftment. Microcredit, which synergies the thrift and …

Microcredit was once universally lauded in international development community circles as a 'magic bullet'. Using the … example of South Africa, this paper shows that microcredit has actually been an 'anti-developmental' local financial model …, microcredit can be viewed as South Africa's own sub-prime-style disaster which, like the original US version, has mainly served to …

Microcredit was once universally lauded in international development community circles as a 'magic bullet'. Using the … example of South Africa, this paper shows that microcredit has actually been an 'anti-developmental' local financial model …, microcredit can be viewed as South Africa's own sub-prime-style disaster which, like the original US version, has mainly served to …

Microcredit was once universally lauded in international development community circles as a 'magic bullet'. Using the … example of South Africa, this paper shows that microcredit has actually been an 'anti-developmental' local financial model …, microcredit can be viewed as South Africa's own sub-prime-style disaster which, like the original US version, has mainly served to …

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on general health, but a large positive effect on mental health …

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with … the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always associated with higher happiness scores, except in one case: whether growth …