The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere. In Britain, the main political parties have an anti-pover
Microfinance is a successful financial innovation to help the poor to sort out credit exclusion, which is one of the poverty traps that prevent billions of unde
Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever
What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implicat
This book addresses one of the main causes of poverty, financial exclusion – the inability to access finance from the high-street banks. People on low or irre