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  Growth isn’t working: the unbalanced distribution of benefits and costs from economic growth

  New Economics Foundation, 2005

  Global economic growth is an extremely inefficient way of achieving poverty reduction and is becoming even less effective.
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  Social return on investment and its relevance to microfinance

  Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network, 2005

  The term "social return on investment" (SROI) generally refers to a method of measuring social benefits. It is expressed as social performance as a ratio to an input, typically capital.
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  Microfinance: sustainable tool for urban poverty alleviation policy recommendations, research agenda, and investigation into national and donor stakeholder activity in the sector

  Social Enterprise Associates, 2005

  Microfinance has gained increasing credibility and and raised its profile in recent years as an effective poverty alleviation instrument. This has led to a proliferation of microfinance institutions, particularly in Latin America, and to government agency support. For example, the U.S. government government passed a law in 2001 establishing microenterprise development as an integral part of U.S.
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  What happened to child labour in Indonesia during the economic crisis: the trade-off between school and work

  SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2005

  Although lower than other developing countries at a similar stage of development, the problem of child labour in Indonesia is significant. Child labour perpetuates poverty. The link between current child labour and future poverty appears to be a lack of adequate and appropriate education.
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  Proposal for a social performance framework in microfinance: the six aspects of outreach

  US Agency for International Development, 2005

  This document presents a conceptual framework for assessing the social performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs).
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  Guyana: experience of economic reform under World Bank and IMF direction

  Halifax Initiative, 2005

  This paper reviews Guyana's experience with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in drafting and implementing Guyana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, and with reforms in three major areas of the economy in which the World Bank and IMF have been substantially involved: sugar production, bauxite mining and water services.The review reveals that the relationship between the World Bank
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  Driving under the influence: Senegal’s PRSP process

  Halifax Initiative, 2005

  At the start of the new millennium, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) were introduced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as as a condition for debt relief for the poorest countries. The process was supposed to be participative, responding to nationally identified priorities for poverty reduction.
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  Open on impact?: slow progress in World Bank and IMF poverty analysis

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2005

  Following the disastrous impact of the structural adjustment years, the World Bank and IMF have acknowledged that policy should be based on evidence rather than ideology, and have stated that they are developing tools and methods to analyse which policies are needed to reduce poverty.Poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA), introduced in the last four years, is one such approach.
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  Is microfinance a "magic bullet" for women’s empowerment?: analysis of findings from South Asia

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005

  Debates around the effectiveness of microfinance tend to be ranged across two poles, with the "evangelists" making impossible claims about its potential to alleviate poverty and empower women, and the sceptics using particular shortcomings of microfinance as evidence of its overall ineffectiveness.This paper seeks to examine the empirical evidence on the impacts of microfinance with respect to
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  Do interest rates matter?: credit demand in the Dhaka slums

  ADB Institute, 2005

  This paper uses data from SafeSave, a credit cooperative in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, to examine how sensitive borrowers are to increases in the interest rate on loans.

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