Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … unbearable. India¡¦s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)-initiated Self-Help Group (SHG) program, which … is currently the largest and fastest growing microfinance program in the developing world, has been aggressively promoted …

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …

substantial savings and hadquite a considerable influence within the household financial decision making. Incomeearning can widen … to resources and gain new economic power.In this context, women are open-minded about using formal institution such as …

of CBHI schemes prevalent in the country.The development of private health insurance market in the country will not leave …

prepared for Ethiopia and South Africa. For Ethiopia, the statistical match combines the Ethiopian Socio-economic Survey-Wave 3 … is high and the synthetic dataset appropriate for the time poverty analysis. For Ethiopia, due to data quality … restriction and sample reweighting, the Ethiopian synthetic dataset seems appropriate for the time poverty analysis. …

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and … other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession …"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty reduction and women's equality will be reversed. Indeed, for many …

explicitly recognise the direct linkage between energy access and consumption and poverty and development. This evolution of the … development agenda is closely related to an expanded understanding of poverty, as it moves beyond a monetary definition, to be … the current literature concerning energy and electricity consumption and poverty and development, to show that there is a …

agricultural development in Timor-Leste and how such development can be achieved. This is done in two steps. The first one takes …

of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its …

positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …