The Kyrgyz Republic has enjoyed remarkable success in poverty reduction in recent years. Poverty headcounts were halved between 2005 (63.9%) and 2008 (31.3%), before they slightly increased again to 33.7% (2010). However, these aggregate figures mask individual or household trajectories into and out of poverty. Additionally, the question arises as to who has remained poor for an extended durati...

PURPOSE Financial concerns represent a major stressor for families of children with cancer but remain poorly understood among those with terminally ill children. We describe the financial hardship, work disruptions, income loss, and coping strategies of families who lost children to cancer. METHODS Retrospective cross-sectional survey of 141 American and 89 Australian bereaved parents whose c...

In the context of deepening poverty, growing inequalities within and between countries and the uneven impacts of economic and financial globalisation, we need to consider how social development, underwritten by a people-centred approach, can influence existing and emerging regional processes and change the regional social policy agenda. Moreover, there is a new urgency given the scale of povert...

The goal of this study is to determine how financial inclusion and development have affected Pakistan's efforts reduce poverty. ARDL method used analyze time series data from 2000 2020. To measure inclusion, the constructs an index using number depositors, institutions, ATMs, borrowers. credit private sector as a percentage GDP development, while inflation real interest rate are included additi...

INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2033 K STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006-1002 PHONE: +1-202-862-5600 FAX: +1-202-467-4439 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.ifpri.org In the last two decades, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh have provided millions of poor rural people with savings and credit services at low cost. With these services they have reduced poverty, and m...

The main contributors to inequities in health relates to widespread poverty. Health cannot be achieved without addressing the social determinants of health, and the answer does not lie in the health sector alone. One of the potential pathways to address vulnerabilities linked to poverty, social exclusion, and empowerment of women is aligning health programmes with empowerment interventions link...

Poor individuals often engage in behaviors, such as excessive borrowing, that reinforce the conditions of poverty. Some explanations for these behaviors focus on personality traits of the poor. Others emphasize environmental factors such as housing or financial access. We instead consider how certain behaviors stem simply from having less. We suggest that scarcity changes how people allocate at...

The report reviews what earlier life experiences and decisions determine both material resources and a sense of financial well-being in later life. It compares several groups of older people, to examine the multidimensional nature of poverty (currently working versus not working; with occupational pension versus without; with a private source of income versus without; living in a deprived area ...

The micro-credit programmes focus on organisation of the rural poor at the grassroots level through a process of social mobilization. It enables the poor build their own organisations (SHGs) consisting of 10-20 persons, in which they participate fully and directly and take decisions on all issues concerning poverty eradication. Micro-finance can be a powerful tool in initiating a cyclical proce...

BACKGROUND Poverty is a global problem. The war against poverty requires not only financial support, but also poverty-related research to pinpoint areas of high need of intervention. In line with international efforts to fight poverty and negative consequences, we carried out this study to give a bibliometric overview of medicine-related literature on poverty. Such a s study is an indicator of ...