This paper studies how self-help groups—village-based organizations designed to encourage savings, household production …. The study finds that the program encouraged savings and associations via self-help groups. However it did not improve …

offered a variety of savings instruments. The paper finds that female farm managers were less likely to purchase agricultural … insurance and more likely to invest in savings for emergencies, even controlling for access to informal insurance and … women. Purchasing insurance increased input spending and use more than savings. Those who purchased more insurance realized …

The year 1999 was important for poverty-related research, and policy development in Vietnam. The General Statistics … in 1999. And four participatory poverty assessments (PPAs) were implemented during 1999. The author's case study … considerable amount of qualitative information about poverty produced in Vietnam over the past eight to ten years has rarely …

Few studies have tried to measure how households in a developing country save from each of the different income sources … Pakistan save from each of the seven separate sources of income. The author finds that households save from different sources … of income at significantly different marginal rates. For example, the marginal propensity to save from external …

-- sibling sex composition—interact in shaping gender differences in preferences for competition. To do so, a lab …

estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population … reduce poverty. This paper describes the main mechanisms through which demographic change may affect economic outcomes, and …

competition policies for poverty reduction strategies … effects on consumers. Equivalent income effects are estimated using the most recent available representative household survey … prices to fall by 20 percent could reduce poverty by 1.5 percent. Similarly, adjusting government interventions in the maize …

, including participation, intensity, and type of activities; the relationship between child labor, education, and future earnings … boys, with the gender differential increasing the earlier a child begins to work. Taking poverty as the primary contributor …'s foregone earnings and address family factors that lead to poverty. However, programs could be improved by explicitly …