In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing … poverty conditions among its vast rural population. Astonishing growth rates in Bangladesh, particularly during 1990s, created … a new dimension for microfinance worldwide as microfinance institutions grew to include millions of clients. The start …

The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …

. It is thus about the fundamental issue in economic development: the eradication of poverty from the world. The report … defines poverty in broad terms, to include literacy, nutrition, and health, as well as income. The evidence suggests that … rapid and politically sustainable progress on poverty has been achieved by pursuing a strategy with two equally important …

This report focuses on the dimensions of poverty, and how to create a better world, free of poverty. The analysis … explores the nature, and evolution of poverty, and its causes, to present a framework for action. The opportunity for expanding … growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, can be harnessed through economic integration, and technological change, dependent …

, poverty rates are still high - 34.6 percent in 1998 compared to 33.4 percent in 1986, and extreme poverty is up from 14 …

. It is thus about the fundamental issue in economic development : the eradication of poverty from the world. The report … defines poverty in broad terms, to include literacy, nutrition, and health, as well as income. The evidence suggests that … rapid and politically sustainable progress on poverty has been achieved by pursuing a strategy with two equally important …

further reduce poverty? The poverty assessment report aims to answer these questions. This report measures poverty in Yemen in … 2005-06, and evaluates the change in poverty compared to 1998, the two years for which comparable household budget surveys …-year economic plans and captures the effect of the economic reform programs launched since 1995. In addition to measuring poverty …

Bangladesh has made recent progress in reducing poverty, but still faces the reality that roughly half its citizens … and priority measures to accelerate poverty reduction. The report suggests that changes in practices an policies, to … social justice. Dramatically lowering the incidence of poverty requires significantly higher levels of economic performance …

In Bangladesh the official poverty rates are produced at the national and division levels only using household income … large variations in poverty incidence within the east and the west. Mapping the data at lower levels allows for easier … recognition of important patterns at local and community scale levels. Poverty mapping is a statistical exercise to estimate the …