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Lim, Younghee; Livermore, Michelle; Davis, Belinda Creel – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2011
Holding a bank account is crucial to the income-maximizing and asset-building of households. This study uses 2008 survey data of EITC-eligible households assisted at Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites to document their tax filing behavior and use of Alternate Financial Services (AFS). Specifically, the differences in tax filing and AFS…
Descriptors: Financial Services, Taxes, Family (Sociological Unit), Banking
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Oxenham, John – Convergence, 2004
The World Bank is a body that declares its vision to be a world free of poverty. It has long recognised that poverty and illiteracy are closely correlated and that illiteracy is a hindrance to economic and social development. The 180 or so governments that own the Bank have declared literacy to be a human right, so the Bank itself presumably also…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Social Responsibility, Needs Assessment, Adult Literacy