poverty reduction tool. It argues that while microfinance has developed some innovative management and business strategies …, its impact on poverty reduction remains in doubt. Microfinance, however, certainly plays an important role in providing … self-esteem. However, for any significant dent on poverty, the focus of public policy should be on growth-oriented and …

This article argues that a shift towards issues of poverty is a welcome antidote to policy-making that had expunged … poverty from the central agenda to focus on stabilization, debt management and static allocative efficiency. Unfortunately, in … causes of poverty and narrows the development agenda. Development was aimed at more than poverty and, significantly in …

. Poverty traps and social exclusion, unjust inequalities with lack of equity, feelings of insecurity and vulnerability, usually …

, rich or poor). The result could be a cardinal ranking of country of birth satisfaction units, how strongly someone would …

a strong case for income growth together with food price stabilisation in curbing child undernutrition. Education has … too but it is not conditional on income or wealth alone. …

what strategies the ultra-poor seem to have followed in three years to improve their livelihoods – changes in income … earning activities and migration. We examined the livelihood outcomes for the ultra poor looking at household income, food …

Concentrated poverty has been said to impose a double burden on those that confront it. In addition to an individual … Cuyahoga County, home to Cleveland, Ohio, a region that features urban neighborhoods highly segregated by income and race. The …

growth and poverty. Our results indicate that maximizing the poverty-reducing effects of a biofuels industry in Tanzania …