Ingrid Boas, Carol Farbotko, Helen Adams, Harald Sterly et al.
Imran Matin, David Hulme, Stuart Rutherford
Abstract This paper reviews the achievements of the ‘microfinance revolution’, through reference to the now extensive literature. It finds that there are many opportunities to improve and innovate. To illustrate this finding, the paper concentrates on examining what we need to know to design and del...
Imran Matin, David Hulme
Helen E. Roy, Aníbal Pauchard, Peter Stoett, Tanara Renard Truong et al.
Although invasive alien species have long been recognized as a major threat to nature and people, until now there has been no comprehensive global review of the status, trends, drivers, impacts, management and governance challenges of biological invasions. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platfo...
David Hulme
This note focuses on the ‘downside’ of microfinance: on the way in which some microfinance activities can damage the prospects of poor people. It is not a polemic that argues that microfinance has failed—there is much evidence, not least from my work with colleagues, that it can help many poor peopl...
Geoffrey Wood, Iffath Anwar Sharif
Part I Overview: poverty and finance in Bangladesh - a new policy agenda, Iffath Sharif poverty and well-being - problems for poverty reduction in role of credit, Martin Greeley finance for the poor or poorest? - financial innovation, poverty and vulnerability, David Hulme and Paul Mosley the politi...
Thomas W. Dichter, Malcolm Harper
Introduction 1 Thomas Dichter Part One: Clients 1. Can microcredit make an already slippery slope more slippery? Some lessons from the social meaning of debt 9 Thomas Dichter 2. Is microdebt good for poor people? A note on the dark side of microfinance 19 David Hulme 3. Imagining microfinance more b...
Nicola Banks, Manoj Roy, David Hulme
In Bangladesh, urban poverty is neglected in research, policy and action on poverty reduction. This paper explores the underlying reasons for this relative neglect, which include national identity and image, the political economy of urban poverty and the structuring of knowledge creation. It argues ...
Alessandro Conticini, David Hulme
ABSTRACT In Bangladesh, as in many developing countries, there is a widespread belief amongst the public, policy makers and social workers that children ‘abandon’ their families and migrate to the street because of economic poverty. Ignoring and avoiding mounting evidence to the contrary, this domin...
Richard Montgomery, D. Bhattacharya, David Hulme
Bob Baulch
Contents: Foreword David Hulme Overview: Poverty Dynamics and Persistence in Africa and Asia Bob Baulch 1. Poverty Transitions, Shocks and Consumption in Rural Bangladesh, 1996-97 to 2006-07 Agnes Quisumbing 2. A Poor Life? Chronic Poverty and Downward Mobility in Rural Ethiopia, 1994 to 2004 Stefan...
Preface vii Introduction 1 Malcolm Harper 1. Financial innovations for microenterprises - linking formal and informal financial institutions Hans Dieter Seibel and Uben Parhusip 2. Savings mobilization and microenterprise programmes Maria Otero 3. Raising the curtain on the 'microfinancial services ...
Manoj Roy, David Hulme, Ferdous Jahan
This paper examines patterns of adaptive behaviour in low-income settlements (1) in Khulna, Bangladesh’s third largest city. It contrasts the adaptive behaviours of “squatter” households who “own” their land with those of tenants who rent dwellings from private landlords, and finds significant diffe...
David Hulme
Recent thinking on poverty and poverty reduction tend to be ‘big’ in terms of ideas, units of analysis, datasets, plans and ambitions. While recognizing the benefits of such approaches, this paper argues that researchers should counterbalance and supplement big ideas through ‘thinking small’. In thi...
The OpenSAFELY Collaborative, Rohini Mathur, Christopher T. Rentsch, Caroline E Morton et al.
Abstract Background COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on ethnic minority populations, both in the UK and internationally. To date, much of the evidence has been derived from studies within single healthcare settings, mainly those hospitalised with COVID-19. Working on behalf of NHS England,...