financial inclusion in Pune, a large city of India based on a household survey at an identified slum area. Empirical findings of … the survey include the socio-economic characteristics and banking behaviour of households Furthermore, the paper …

We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing … to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at …

is obtained from banks or lower if the household lives below poverty line. The same also holds for the rate of growth of … per capita income. There is virtually no significant difference for the households living below poverty line (BPL) on the …

Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual … are unwilling to accept a job that brings them out of poverty. …

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …

dimensions of financial inclusion are a better tool to improve the economic situation in the poorest countries in the world …

of itself, and it may also influence concentration in banking and thus the impact of bank-specific shocks for the …

We suggest an explanation for the existence of "mission drift", the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to …

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion …