This dissertation examines the opposing Christian financial support theories of When Helping Hurts, by Brian Fikkert and Stephen Corbett, and When Helping Works, by Michael Badriaki, to provide a starting point for cross-cultural giving rooted in four-self church partnering prin…
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This research work analyzes two comparative cases of World Bank poverty alleviation development programs in Bangladesh and Uganda. The work investigates the internal and external conditions under which poverty alleviation programs may increase in-country income inequality. It wa…
Recently governments in developing countries have targeted economically disadvantaged communities in order to effectively alleviate poverty. In Indonesia, for example, the IDT program provided targeted villages with grants for small business loans. Chapter 1 addresses the impact…
The expansion of financial services to the poor, now widely referred to as microfinance, quickly saw tremendous success in Bangladesh beginning in the 1970's and was exported to a number of other countries. For a time microfinance was spoken of as a panacea, in part because it i…
This dissertation explores the emergence and evolution of global microlending practices for the poor now at the forefront of the contemporary international debate on poverty alleviation research and policy. It uses narrative analysis methodology to (1) critically examine the fou…
It is unlikely that, without active intervention, the Palestinian economy will climb out of recession in the medium-run, particularly as certain Israeli-imposed closures remain in place and as the characteristics of a war-torn economy linger. The discussion in premised on the as…
This study examines a recent policy proposal that as a way out of poverty, third world countries should reform their present land policy to incorporate a cadastral system. The proponents of this policy reform have argued that the poorest nations of the world require formalizatio…
Starting with the arguably most important target goal of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, namely to halve the number of people living in extreme poverty by the year 2015, the present thesis will explore the role of economic growth through private sector developme…