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 …

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 …

in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression … discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a discontinuous function of an index of family income and …

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 …

savings accounts. In collaboration with a microfinance institution in Malawi, the authors tested two primary treatments … period after harvest. Across the set of key outcomes, the commitment savings treatment had larger effects than the ordinary … savings treatment. Additional evidence suggests that the positive impacts of commitment derive from keeping funds from being …

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

, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

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 …

income position (percentile in world income distribution) is explained by only these two pieces of information. Mean country … income (circumstance) explains 60 percent, and social class (both circumstance and effort) 30 percent of global income … important for the people who "draw" low or high social classes; for the middle classes, income distribution is much less …