Purpose Though microfinance has been working for many years as a tool to eradicate
poverty from its root, most of the least developed and developing countries are yet to …

This study examines Islamic microfinance as an important contributor to both the economic
and human development of India. We are aware that conventional microfinance products …

Summary Background The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) was a 10 year, multisector,
rural development project, initiated in 2005, operating across ten sites in ten sub-Saharan …

Names: Lugo-Ocando, Jairo, author.| Nguyen, An, 1975–author. Title: Developing news:
global journalism and the coverage of “third world” development/by Jairo Lugo-Ocando and …

The effective use of public policy to reduce poverty and inequality in southern Africa requires
an increased use of research evidence to inform decision making. There is an absence of …

The current situation of high unemployment and the widening whole of the disadvantaged
people in Muslim countries have awakened the need for proper access to microfinance …

Gender essentialism in development practice has been criticised for more than three
decades with little effect. We use gender and intersectionality within the framework of …

Abstract Millennium Villages Project (MVP) was implemented in various villages across sub-
Saharan African countries to catalyse the achievement of the Millennium Development …

It's never fun to waste one's time. So an Impact Evaluation (IE) that makes a difference would
appear to be a good starting point, right? Yet the utility of IE is not always clear or …

Over the past decades information system developers and knowledge engineers in ICT
projects in wealthy regions of the world have come to realize that technical work can only be …