Joseph E. Stiglitz
A major problem for institutional lenders is ensuring that borrowers exercise prudence in the use of the funds so that the likelihood of repayments is enhanced. One partial solution is peer monitoring: having neighbors who are in a good position to monitor the borrower be required to pay a penalty i...
Shahidur R. Khandker
Microfinance supports mainly informal activities that often have a low return and low market demand. It may therefore be hypothesized that the aggregate poverty impact of microfinance is modest or even nonexistent. If true, the poverty impact of microfinance observed at the participant level represe...
Anne Marie Goetz, Rina Sen Gupta
Abstract Special credit institutions in Bangladesh have dramatically increased the credit available to poor rural women since the mid-1980s. Though this is intended to contribute to women's empowerment, few evaluations of loan use investigate whether women actually control this credit. Most often, w...
Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22 % of households to send a seasonal migrant, their consump...
Andréa Cornwall, Vera Schattan P. Coelho
* Foreword - John Gaventa * 1. Spaces for Change? The Politics of Participation in New Democratic Arenas - Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan P. Coelho * Part I: The Challenge of Inclusion ** 2. Brazilian Health Councils: including the excluded? - Vera Schattan P. Coelho ** 3. Spaces for participatio...
Md Abdullah Omar, Kazuo Inaba
Abstract Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combating poverty and income inequality by opening blocked advancement opportunities for disadvantaged segments of the population. This study intends to investigate the impact of financial inclusion on reducing...
Jason Corburn, David Vlahov, Blessing Mberu, Lee W. Riley et al.
The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and secure and adequate housing are already in short supply or non-existent. Further, space constraints, violence, and overcr...
Manohar Sharma, Manfred Zeller
Syed Ahsanuddin Ahmed, Motunrayo Ajisola, Kehkashan Azeem, Pauline Bakibinga et al.
INTRODUCTION: With COVID-19, there is urgency for policymakers to understand and respond to the health needs of slum communities. Lockdowns for pandemic control have health, social and economic consequences. We consider access to healthcare before and during COVID-19 with those working and living in...
Naila Kabeer
* Foreword - John Gaventa * INTRODUCTION * 1. The search for inclusive citizenship: Meanings and expressions in an interconnected world.- Naila Kabeer * CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHTS * 2. Towards an actor-oriented Perspective on human rights - Celestine Nyamu-Musembi * 3. The emergence of human rights in t...
Ceri Peach
compare British levels of segregation with those experienced by African Americans in the United States. British levels of segregation are much lower than those found in the USA and, for the Black Caribbean population, they are falling. South Asian levels of segregation are higher than for the Caribb...
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Laurel R Jackson
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 study of three villages in Bangladesh. Microfinance has become a...
Marie Godquin
Manfred Zeller, Richard L. Meyer, Zeller, Manfred, Meyer, Richard L.
Contents: List of FiguresList of TablesList of BoxesForeword Preface 1 Improving the Preformance of Microfinance: Financial Sustainability, Outreach, and Impact MANFRED ZELLER AND RICHARD L. MEYERPART I Access to and Demand for Financial Services by the Poor 2 Access to and Demand for Financial Serv...
Saunders, Doug 1967-