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  Surviving disasters and supporting recovery: a guidebook for microfinance institutions

  World Bank, 2006

  Experiences of several Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in disaster-prone areas have demonstrated that access to microfinance services can support disaster preparedness and risk reduction by decreasing client vulnerability. When clients have access to needed financial services during crisis situations, the impact of the disaster may considerably lessen.
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  Shaping the future of social protection: access, financing and solidarity

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2006

  The starting point for this study is the principle that a rights-based approach should be used in framing public policy. The study therefore seeks to address the challenge of combining the ethical aspect of social rights with viable ways of strengthening citizens’ entitlement to such rights in highly inequitable and relatively poor societies.
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  Assessing the pro-poorness of government fiscal policy in Thailand

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  Fiscal policy represents one of the key ways in which public actions can have an impact on poverty. This can occur both through its impacts on growth and on distribution. This paper focuses on assessing the impact of fiscal policy on poverty.
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  Graduating the poorest into microfinance: linking safety nets and financial services

  Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 2006

  Even though there is significant evidence that microfinance is an effective poverty reduction tool, questions remain about its ability to reach and serve the very poorest groups. Even in the case of microfinance institutions (MFIs) that focus on reaching very poor clients, there are substantial numbers of people who are too poor to participate.
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  Microfinance impact and the MDGs: the challenge of scaling-up

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Microfinance can contribute to several MDGs but in order to do so in ways that make a real difference a significant scaling-up of microfinance service provision would be required. In particular, if microfinance organisations want to reach the poorest, most vulnerable groups, they often need to rely on outside funding from donors or commercial lenders.
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  Women’s empowerment through sustainable micro-finance: rethinking "best practice"

  Sustainable Micro-finance for Women's Empowerment, 2006

  This paper challenges assumptions about the automatic benefits of micro-finance for women. It argues that financial indicators of access – such as women’s programme membership and size of loans – cannot be used as indicators of women’s empowerment. High repayment levels by women do not necessarily indicate that women have used the loans themselves.
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  Politics and poverty reduction strategies: lessons from Latin American HIPCs

  Overseas Development Institute, 2006

  This paper addresses the perception that poverty reduction strategy (PRS) processes in Latin America and the Caribbean have not grappled effectively with politics, and have not engaged successfully with political actors and institutions. The authors draw upon evidence from documents and interviews on how this situation has arisen and how it might be confronted.
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  Banking the unbanked: technology's role in delivering accessible financial services to the poor

  Foundation for Development Cooperation, 2006

  This paper asks what role technology can play in increasing the outreach of microfinance services for poor people. It reports on the Remote Transaction System (RTS), a system desgined to link microfinance clients to their financial institutions and beyond.
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  Future scenarios: prospects and challenges for Asian development

  Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006

  Rapid and sustained growth in Asia has led to substantial reductions in poverty across the region. This paper reviews the structural transformation of the Asian economies and the impacts of rapid growth on poverty in the region. It also highlights some of the main challenges the region faces. Asian countries have undergone deep and rapid structural changes over the past two decades.
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  Making insurance work for the poor

  Global Development Research Center, 2006

  This briefing paper is an output from a conference held in 2005 on microfinance and microinsurance, attended by several international stakeholders, including DFID, the ILO and CGAP.For the purpose of the conference, microinsurance was defined as: "the protection of low income people against specific perils in exchange for regular premium payments proportionate to the likelihood and cost of the

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