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Impact of Self Help Groups on the food security and non-food consumption of weaker sections of the society

Swamy, Vighneswara; B.K., Tulasimala - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Microfinance across the globe is being practiced as a tool to mitigate poverty and chiefly as an empowerment tool to uplift the downtrodden. The paper has uniquely established that Self Help Groups in India have been significantly successful in achieving the objective of economic development of...

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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy

Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...

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Poverty and household demographic behaviour in Pakistan - insights from PLM survey 1979

Mohammad, Irfan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985

differentials are discussed in the third section. Although the population, labour force and migration (PLM) survey serves as major …

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An introduction to the 1998-99 Pakistan socioeconomic survey (PSES)

G. M., Arif; Syed, Mubashir Ali; Nasir, Zafar Mueen; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

This brief paper is quite focused. It describes the methodology and scope of the household survey carried out by the … household survey, followed by the design of the survey as proposed in the MIMAP project. The modified design is presented in … the survey are discussed respectively in Sections 9 and 10. The sample characteristics are reported in the last section. …

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The Small and Medium Enterprises and Poverty in Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis

Ali, Sharafat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are considered to play an important role in the economic growth, employment generation and poverty alleviation in the economy. The annual time series data is used for examination of impact of SMEs on poverty in Pakistan for the period of 1972-2008. The study...

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Do remittances alleviate poverty and income inequality in poor countries? Empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Adenutsi, Deodat E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In carrying out the study, 34 SSA countries for which relevant data are available, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis...

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Polity qualities: how governance affects poverty

Moore, Mick; Leavy, Jennifer; Houtzager, Peter; White, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

For a large sample of 61 developing countries, over the period 1980-95, we calculate a measure of the efficiency with which national political-economic systems convert a given volume of material resources (GNP per capita) into human development (longevity, education and literacy) for their...

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The Child Labour in Developing Countries – A Challenge to Millennium Development Goals

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and it is one of the most striking issues in the developing countries. Hence, there is a need to identify the vulnerable children and point out the problems in relation to the...

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Fiscal Scenario of South Asian Countries: Implications for Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation

Akram, Naeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Sustainable economic growth and Poverty alleviation is a principal objective of the developing countries. The present study aims to historically review of fiscal policy and its consequences for the economic development of the four South Asian economies i.e. Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and...

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Reforms in Institutional Finance for Inclusive Growth

Swamy, Vighneswara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyses the need, significance and the advantages of ‘reforms in institutional finance for inclusive growth’ in the context of Indian economy and offers some practicable suggestions from the functional perspective. India’s Rural Financial Architecture (RFA) is subject to...

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