Micro-lending has been introduced as an effective antipoverty tool in recent decades. However not all of micro-lending institutes are successful both in accomplishing their mission and in loan recovery. According to World Bank’s focus note (2006), less than a quarter of its projects that funded micro-lending were judged successful. This paper describes a specific type of micro-lending (Grameen ...

INTRODUCTION Many studies have found inequities in health among income groups in Canada. We report the variations in the major chronic disease risks among low-income populations, by province of residence, as a proxy measure of social environment. METHODS We used estimates from the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey to study residents who were aged 45 years or older and from the lowest inco...

In the recent literature the issue of program change via updating rules (also known as revision rules) has been reduced to the issue of obtaining a new set of models, by means of the update rules, from each of the models of an initial program. Any program whose models are exactly the new set of models will count as an update of the original program. Following the classical approaches to theory ...

Depression is common among women with young children, and is strongly associated with financial adversity. Debt is a common feature of such adversity, yet its relationship with depression has not been examined before. We have used longitudinal data, collected over six months, on 271 families with young children, to examine this relationship. Multiple regression was used to identify independent ...

Provision of antipoverty and other social services by nonstate organizations is growing in importance in both the United States and the Russian Federation. Th e history of such provision in the United States may off er insights for the emerging system of nonstate provision in Russia. To illuminate these points, we provide historical overviews of both contexts and then we examine data from two s...

©1997 Society for Research in Child Development. All rights reserved. This Social Policy Report synthesizes several streams of research bearing on the problem of poverty in the United States today. Four themes are developed: (1) American society is characterized by rising income inequality; (2) our schools provide an arena for reproducing, resisting, and reconstructing an inequitable economic a...