Affordability to Finance Poverty Reduction Programmes

Micro-finance as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction By

The paper established the facts that poverty is indeed increasing in Nigeria based on the poverty assessment study commissioned and sponsored by the World Bank in 1995. It further indicated in the introduction that the World Bank and the IMF group are focusing on poverty reduction as a prerequisite for debt relief. The paper is structured into five sections with introduction being section one. ...

Finance and Poverty: Evidence from India

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Islamic Finance. Inclusive Growth and Poverty Alleviation

(ISHRAT HUSAIN) Most of the attention on Islamic finance has so far been focused on the regulatory framework, products and services offered, comparability with conventional finance, risk management characteristics, Shariah compliance, and expansion and penetration issues. Very little work has been done to explore the unique features of Islamic finance for the larger good of the society particul...

'Double mainstreaming': including people affected by leprosy in poverty reduction programmes.

Evidence that people with disabilities, including those affected by leprosy, are disproportionately affected by poverty is well known, and evidence points to increased rates of poverty of households with members affected by leprosy. Data from Myanmar suggest that households with a leprosy-affected member have double the rates of household poverty than households with a member who is disabled fr...

Gender and Reduction of Poverty in Iran