...Imran Khan; Mrutuyanjaya Sahu Purpose This study aims to examine the influence of global and local structural factors on reducing poverty. Design/methodology/approach The research uses data spanning from 1996–2022 and uses the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model. This model allows...

...Sreenivasan Subramanian; Mala Lalvani Purpose This paper aims to address the thesis that poverty is best alleviated by a policy emphasising the growth of per capita average income, a strategy that affords little room for direct pro-poor interventions or a movement towards a more equal distribution...

...Amita Majumder; Ranjan Ray; Sattwik Santra Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the sensitivity of regional and world poverty rates to the purchasing power parities (PPP) used in the calculations. The PPPs are required to convert the “international poverty line” typically denominated...

.... Microfinance Poverty Political economy of growth and development Micro-Credit SHG Women empowerment (WE) Propensity score matching (PSM) Treatment evaluation B54 J16 O52 C4 Credit plays an important role in economic development. It is an important input for productive activity. It helps...

... be contacted at: shirsendu.mukherjee1980@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Microfinance Poverty Group lending Group size Joint liability Social sanction D82, O17 In addressing the problems of rural credit, two aspects deserve close attention: easy access...

... limitations. Public works programs have long been instituted as a measure of poverty alleviation in times of economic distress. These programs have been implemented by policy makers in many parts of the world – Botswana (1960), the Indian state of Maharashtra (1978), Tanzania (1978), Chile (1987...

...Arvind Panagariya; Vishal More Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to ground in serious empirical evidence the debate on whether the post-reform acceleration in growth has helped bring poverty down for all economic, social and religious groups and in all state or has left certain groups...

... Publishing Limited 2013 Income and wealth distribution Trade policy Human capital Poverty WTO Trade Wealth and income Child labour continues to be a problem in many parts of the world affecting an estimated 218 million children in 2004. Although the incidence of child labour has been...

.... Suryanarayana can be contacted at: Surya@igidr.ac.in © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Poverty Social inclusion Government policy National economy India The pursuit of inclusion of the deprived in the development process of India is summarized in the phrase “Growth...

... evaluator, is the so‐called “Sequential Expected Poverty Gap” (SEPG) dominance. This criterion works just like the SEHP one, but with the poverty gap rather than headcount poverty used as the relevant poverty measure. Every individual i has a VNM preference ordering ≳ _i...