Microfinance is generally seen as a way to fix credit markets and unleash the productive capacities of poor people who … are dependent on self-employment. The microfinance sector has grown quickly since the 1990s, paving the way for other …, generating a backlash against microfinance. This paper reconsiders the claims about microfinance, highlighting the diversity in …

Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The …. The first measure is absolute consumption poverty, as judged by what "poverty" means in the poorest countries. The second … is a new measure of global poverty combining absolute poverty with country-specific social inclusion needs, consistently …

world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set …), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large increase in the estimated number of poor in the world. The 2011 price data …

In this paper, developed as part of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook, the authors examine how to … implement trade liberalization as part of a strategy for alleviating poverty in developing countries. They discuss trade policy … to trade policy as a tool for poverty alleviation. The authors examine the patterns or models of trade policy that have …

-that point the way to how the world could cut poverty in half in every major region. The fact that aid increases the benefits of …More effective development aid could greatly improve poverty reduction in the areas where poverty reduction is expected …, aid flows respond to policy improvements that create a better environment for poverty reduction and effective use of aid …

Structural adjustment - as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF, and the World Bank - reduces the … growth elasticity of poverty reduction. The author finds no evidence for structural adjustment having a direct effect on …-cyclical, but no evidence that the cyclical component of those policy variables affects poverty. The author speculates that the poor …

As the world approaches the target year of the Millennium Development Goals and passes into the new, post-2015 era, the … development community has made a call for a new international development goal of eradication of extreme poverty by 2030. How … feasible is that? For most of the developing world, the goal seems ambitious, yet achievable -- but what about the prospects …

This paper summarizes the approach used to estimate monetary poverty for Pakistan in 2019-20 at the district level. The … Pakistan Social and Living Standard Measurement Survey 2019-20. This application differs from the standard small area … instead of a census as the target data offers additional information for modeling poverty, but it also comes at the expense of …

longitudinal surveys and the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion framework to analyze recent temporal trends in absolute … multidimensional poverty across the 27 countries in the European Union and its subregions. The analysis quantifies the extent …, composition, and factors associated with the higher risks of multidimensional poverty across four countries (Bulgaria, Romania …