1. Patterns and Trends of Urbanization and Urban Growth in Asia -- 2. Examining the interdependencies between urbanization, internal migration, urban poverty and inequality: Evidence from Indonesia -- 3. Rural–urban migration, urban poverty, inequality and urbanization in the People’s...

Poverty targeting programs can in principle be assessed as projects using the tools of either cost-benefit or cost-effectiveness analysis. In practice where quantitative assessments have been made they are principally a form of cost-effectiveness calculations based on costs per unit of benefit...

Despite the extensive spread of micro finance, studies on the actual impact of MFIs are often more ambivalent about its impact than is the aid community. Much has been written on the range of institutional arrangements pursued in different organizations and countries and in turn a vast number...