MFIs Lending and Poverty Reduction

Gender and Reduction of Poverty in Iran

Women and Poverty Reduction

Alleviation and reduction of poverty and common prosperity are the constant goals of Chinese Government. It is an important task for women’s federations at all levels to address the shortage of food and clothing for women and children in poor areas and to promote local efforts helping women and children in poor areas. Over the past years, the government, with poverty issues that affect women on...

Agriculture Trade Openness and Poverty Reduction: A Cross-Country Analysis

This paper explores the effects of general and agricultural trade openness on economic freedom and alongside with the quality of institutions, on income and poverty. Recent cross-country data for over 200 nations in global regions were used to estimate equations for income, poverty and economic freedom. Economic freedom appears to have positive impacts on income levels, which together with good...

Breaking the vicious cycle of poverty Micro - lending

Micro-lending has been introduced as an effective antipoverty tool in recent decades. However not all of micro-lending institutes are successful both in accomplishing their mission and in loan recovery. According to World Bank’s focus note (2006), less than a quarter of its projects that funded micro-lending were judged successful. This paper describes a specific type of micro-lending (Grameen ...

Agricultural Research and Poverty Reduction