Das traditionelle Bild Lateinamerikas als Krisenregion scheint sich auch nach der Corona-Krise fortzuschreiben, nunmehr im Zeichen der Folgen des Ukraine-Krieges und der Sanktionsmaßnahmen des Westens. Inflationsdruck, Budgetdefizite und die Gefahr eines Abrutschens breiter Kreise der...

This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and severity of poverty in 42 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1980 to 2019. Mobile money innovations are understood as the mobile used to send money and the mobile used to...

This study evaluates which type of benefit-a universal benefit, a proxy mean-tested benefit, or a categorical benefit- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by...

This paper proposes an integrated, comprehensive financial model that can provide startup capital to socially committed business ventures, such as social enterprises and Yunus Social Business (YSB), by using Islamic social funds (ISFs), Zakat (almsgiving), Waqf (endowments), Sadaqat (charity),...

I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. I exploit the unique design of the child benefit program in Poland to identify the income effects of the monthly transfer in a difference-in-differences design. On average, the marginal propensity...

The study aims to investigate the effects of COVID-19 and highlight characteristics of the urban poor during the COVID-19 outbreak in Bangkok. The study utilizes data from community surveys with multi-stage sampling to obtain a total of 500 samples in the slums during the first lockdown in...