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From Poverty to Disaster and Back: a Review of the Literature Open
Poor people are disproportionally affected by natural hazards and disasters. This paper provides a review of the multiple factors that explain why this is the case. It explores the role of exposure (often, but not always, poor people are m…
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Rural livelihood diversification and household well-being: Insights from Humla, Nepal Open
Diversification of livelihoods is a commonly applied strategy for coping with economic and environmental shocks and instrumental in poverty reduction. In this paper, we have assessed the role of livelihood diversification in household well…
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Artificial Intelligence in the Industry 4.0, and Its Impact on Poverty, Innovation, Infrastructure Development, and the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from Emerging Economies? Open
Artificial intelligence in the fourth industrial revolution is beginning to live up to its promises of delivering real value necessitated by the availability of relevant data, computational ability, and algorithms. Therefore, this study so…
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Microfinance and the business of poverty reduction: Critical perspectives from rural Bangladesh Open
In this article we provide a critical analysis of the role of market-based approaches to poverty reduction in developing countries. In particular, we analyse the role of microfinance in poverty alleviation by conducting an ethnographic stu…
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The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity Open
Significance This study demonstrates the causal impact of a poverty reduction intervention on early childhood brain activity. Data from the Baby’s First Years study, a randomized control trial, show that a predictable, monthly unconditiona…
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Tourism Contribution to Poverty Alleviation in Kenya: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis Open
The aim of this article is to investigate the claim that tourism development can be the engine for poverty reduction in Kenya using a dynamic, microsimulation computable general equilibrium model. The article improves on the common practic…
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Household Livelihood Strategies and Implication for Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas of Central Nepal Open
Understanding household livelihood strategies is pivotal to minimize rural poverty in the least developed countries like Nepal. This study is an attempt to assess livelihood strategies pursued by rural households, investigate the most remu…
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Financial development and poverty reduction in developing countries: New evidence from banks and microfinance institutions Open
The literature on financial development and growth has received a lot of attention over the past two decades. Unlike growth, not much of consideration has been given to poverty reduction. Moreover, most of the past studies focus on bank an…
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The role of financial development in poverty reduction Open
This paper investigates whether financial development is conducive in poverty reduction. Separating financial development into four categories and using newly available data this paper finds that both financial deepening and greater physic…
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POVERTY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A REVIEW Open
The objective of this paper is to review and attempt a synthesis of the relevant literature on growth versus poverty, and to analyze the causal link between the two phenomena. Research issues that drive our study are: Does economic growth …
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The Measurement of Green Finance Development Index and Its Poverty Reduction Effect: Dynamic Panel Analysis Based on Improved Entropy Method Open
Finance contributes to poverty alleviation through economic growth, and the development of green finance is related to the sustainable development of the world economy and environment. Green finance not only helps promote sustainable econo…
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The impact of foreign direct investment, foreign aid and trade on poverty reduction: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries Open
Despite postulations on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign aid, and trade on growth, empirical evidence from extant research has been mixed. The focus of recent research has shifted from the growth effects of these int…
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Impact of remittances on economic growth and poverty reduction amongst CIS countries Open
The main goal of this paper is to assess the effect of remittances on economic growth and poverty reduction amongst the post-Soviet states, compared with other external sources of capital, such as foreign aid and foreign direct investment.…
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From Evidence to Action The Story of Cash Transfers and Impact Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa Open
Today, virtually every country in sub-Saharan Africa has some kind of cash transfer programme. These programmes are increasingly recognized as key to fighting poverty and hunger. Designed to reflect regional characteristics, they emphasize…
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Public Good or Private Wealth? Open
Our economy is broken, with hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty while huge rewards go to those at the very top. The number of billionaires has doubled since the financial crisis and their fortunes grow by $2.5bn a day,…
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Baby’s First Years: Design of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Poverty Reduction in the United States Open
Childhood economic disadvantage is associated with lower cognitive and social-emotional skills, reduced educational attainment, and lower earnings in adulthood. Despite these robust correlations, it is unclear whether family income is the …
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The poverty impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria: A counterfactual analysis Open
Adoption of improved agricultural technologies has long been recognized as critical for reducing poverty through increased productivity, incomes, and asset accumulation. Using a nationally representative survey data from a sample of over 1…
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The effects of social security expenditure on reducing income inequality and rural poverty in China Open
Social security has, as one of its primary aims, the provision of financial support to those deemed to be poor or facing the threat of poverty. Based on China’s national statistical data covering social insurance, social assistance, and so…
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The Impact of Fintech on Poverty Reduction: Evidence from China Open
Ending poverty in all its forms by 2030 remains the first agenda of Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2015. Motivated by this agenda, this study examined the direct and indirect effect of financial technology (fint…
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Does poverty-alleviation-based industry development improve farmers’ livelihood capital? Open
Targeted poverty alleviation is a unique approach adopted in China to help achieve the vision of a moderately prosperous society in all aspects and the “Chinese Dream”. Industrial development as a means of poverty alleviation is an integra…
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Women Left Behind? Poverty and Headship in Africa Open
Two stylized facts about poverty in Africa motivate this article: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and poverty has been falling in the aggregate since the 1990s. These facts raise two questions. First, how have female-headed hou…
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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India Open
Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991.We find a downward trend in poverty meas…
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Impact of FDI Inflows on Poverty Reduction in the ASEAN and SAARC Economies Open
The aim of this paper is to reinvestigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on welfare or poverty reduction in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation …
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SMES FINANCING AND ITS EFFECTS ON NIGERIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH Open
Small and Medium Enterprises play key roles in transition and developing countries (OECD, 2002). These firms typically account for more than 90% of all firms outside the white-collar jobs sector, constituting a major source of employment a…
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The effect of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in Sub-Sahara Africa: Does threshold matter? Open
This paper investigated the threshold effect of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using an annual dataset spanning 2010 to 2017, the Hansen’s estimation and Differenced generalized method of moments (GMM…
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Evaluating the Behaviour of Chinese Stakeholders Engaged in Large Hydropower Projects in Asia and Africa Open
Hydropower dams are back in the spotlight owing to a shifting preference for low carbon energy generation and their possible contribution to mitigating climate change. At the forefront of the renaissance of large hydropower dams are Chines…
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The Economic Transformation Database (ETD): content, sources, and methods Open
This note introduces the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database (ETD), which provides time series of employment and real and nominal value added by 12 sectors in 51 countries for the period 1990–2018. The ETD includes 20 Asian, 9 …
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Pathways from research on improved staple crop germplasm to poverty reduction for smallholder farmers Open
Innovations to improve staple crop germplasm can reduce poverty and otherwise improve farmer livelihoods through complex and multiple pathways. This paper reviews the evidence for one prominent pathway—through increased incomes (in cash an…
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The Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative: An Independent Evaluation of the World Bank’s Support through 2003 Open
This evaluation builds upon OED's \n earlier work to assess how well the PRS Initiative has \n helped thus far in putting the CDF principles into action, \n how relevant it is to countries' quest for sustainable \n poverty reduction, and h…
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The importance of public health, poverty reduction programs and women’s empowerment in the reduction of child stunting in rural areas of Moramanga and Morondava, Madagascar Open
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