It is in view of the foregoing that this paper examined the impact of World Bank assisted projects on poverty alleviation. This paper concluded that for the Bank to achieve its goal at the set date, a ...

In this book, twelve poverty scholars in Mexico and the United States contribute to the understanding of the roots of poverty and build knowledge about effective policy alleviation strategies. After ...

Until now, the social enterprise bookshelf contained mostly two types of books—studies of what works ... Polak has long believed that to have a major impact, global poverty alleviation efforts must ...

Karlan and Appel believe that understanding what works for poverty alleviation programs boils down to one deceptively ... One of the best examples in the book doesn’t involve an RCT, but instead a ...

The Coalition is uniquely put together and able to combine forces of humanitarian and development actors with complementary expertise: Members with proven technical experience in poverty alleviation ...

Ghanaian custom views children as members of either their mother's or father's lineage (extended family), but not both. Patrilineal custom charges a man's lineage with caring for his widow and ...

it is important to develop a clear view of their impact as tools for poverty alleviation. Targeting Investments in Children tackles the problem of evaluating these programs by examining them using a ...