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Thus, addressing the economics of agriculture without paying special attention to issues related to agricultural sector inefficiencies such as post-harvest crop losses, especially in countries that highly depend on agriculture, is to limit knowledge on the matter. The role of agriculture is not limited to the assurance of food security, but is largely hidden in the growth of economies, especially for countries whose economies depend on agriculture. Agriculture in the developing world is hindered by several factors, which are mainly categorised into institutional factors; poverty, geographical and climate factors; and human factors. [Extracted from the article]

Some authors acknowledge that microfinance providers are a distinct group from the borrowers, but rare (if any) authors address the impact of cultural factors and the intersection of identities, such as race, class, and gender, on microfinance allocations. Also, through the book, Hossein does not only focus on challenging how microfinance has commercialised, but also how researchers and microfinance providers have neglected different indigenous banking systems. Some critics state that Hossein disregards the political framework where microfinance operates and is regulated as well as the impacts of microfinance in other regions. Award-winner Hossein has been applauded for criticising commercial microfinance and its connections with political system and showing positive examples of informal type of microfinance. [Extracted from the article]

The firm's decision includes not only its jobs, but the jobs of other firms in the state that are affected by its decision. Such estimates suggest that for every job created by incented firms another 1.5-3.0 jobs are created by other firms on the state. For every 10 jobs, Bartik states that in the short run 6 jobs are filled by state residents and 4 are filled by in-migrants. [Extracted from the article]

Dr Serena Natile's book, titled I Exclusionary politics of digital financial inclusion: mobile money, gendered walls i , draws on gender as an analytical and methodological tool but also incorporates a socio-legal approach to critique digital financial inclusion. At the end of the book, the author's findings converge with feminist political economy literature which argues that, to achieve gender equity, finance and production have to serve the needs of social reproduction. The result of such overly positive framing is that the ability to simply "pay using mobile money" is presented as a key to access important resources; in other words, "payment" is equated with important developmental outcomes. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in America," by Matthew Desmond, is presented.

(Fiction. 13-adult) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America," by Dale L. Hutchinson, is presented.

A review of the book "The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens," by Daniel L. Hatcher, is presented.

A deep dive into the daily living of low-income Detroit residents as well as real estate speculators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]