Strategies for Reducing Cultural Poverty

Poverty Reducing Credit Policies ∗

Capital does not simply flow unimpeded to those who can make the best use of it. Banks need assurance that loans will be repaid. For that reason, they do not lend to those who are too poor to put up collateral. Although the poor may have excellent investment opportunities, they are often excluded from financial markets and unable to invest. There is considerable empirical support for the existe...

Reducing Welfare Dependency and Poverty

The purpose of this paper Is to Investigate empirically two Important questions concerning chi Id support enforcement~ Ftrst, what Is the Impact of receiving chi Id support on welfare dependency and poverty? Second, howeffective are current child support enfor,cement proced~res? The a~alysls utilizes data from the 1979 AFDC Recipient Characteristics Study and the March/Apr I J 1982 Current Popu...

Promoting Peace and Reducing Poverty

This report examines the notion that tourism can help deliver peace and prosperity to developing countries by examining relationships among tourism, development, and conflict in three countries: Kenya, Nigeria, and India. The case studies were commissioned as part of the 2008 Travelers’ Philanthropy Conference held in Arusha, Tanzania. The three-day conference was attended by 225 delegates from...

Reducing poverty through preschool interventions.

Greg Duncan, Jens Ludwig, and Katherine Magnuson explain how providing high-quality care to disadvantaged preschool children can help reduce poverty. In early childhood, they note, children's cognitive and socioemotional skills develop rapidly and are sensitive to "inputs" from parents, home learning environments, child care settings, and the health care system. The authors propose an intensive...

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies