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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Multidimensional Poverty"”.
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Analysis of multidimensional poverty in South Africa
Poverty in South Africa extends beyond income deprivation, reflecting a complex web of constraints that limit individuals' freedoms and capabilities. Grounded in Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach, this study redefines poverty as the lack of opportunity to achieve well-being across multiple …
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ESSAYS ON THE WTO ACCESSION, HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
… income distribution, compares China’s income and multidimensional poverty reduction and investigates the factors, including the WTO accession, that predict multidimensional poverty. By exploiting the exogenous variation in exposure to tariff changes across provinces and over time, Chapter 2 (Essay …
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Exploring the processes of parenting in the context of multidimensional poverty when children demonstrate behavioural problems: a single case study in post-1994 Apartheid South Africa
… behavioural problems in the context of multidimensional poverty in post-1994 South Africa. This context presents with complex challenges that align well with the study's intention to contribute knowledge from the Global South. Methodology: Drawing upon a post-structuralist paradigm, the …
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Measuring youth poverty in Namibia: An application of a multidimensional, multilevel modelling approach
Officially, poverty in Namibia is measured by means of monetary thresholds, using the World Bank’s Cost of Basic Needs (CBN) approach. Poverty cannot, however, be solely defined by the lack of monetary resources. Rather, it is a combination of a range of non monetary factors which act as …
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Three Essays on Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Multidimensional Poverty Change in Zimbabwe; Long-Term Impact of Cash Transfers in Niger; and Targeting Efficiency of Social Protection Programs in Cameroon
… is related to one particular key step of the poverty alleviation agenda: poverty definition and measurement in Zimbabwe; targeting poor households in Cameroon; and impact evaluation of anti-poverty interventions in Niger. The first essay explores changes in poverty across multiple dimensions …
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Does mobile money have a part to play in poverty reduction within South Africa?
… growth and therefore successfully reducing poverty levels within a country, that is, the use of mobile money. With the rise of mobile phone penetration within African countries, its use has gone beyond communication, providing key financial access in the form of phone-based money transfers …
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The Poverty of China's Rural-to-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shanghai
… attention since the late 1980s, but migrants' poverty has not been properly understood. Previous studies have mostly regarded China's rural-to-urban migrants as a disadvantaged or marginalized group in the city. However, despite showing obvious signs of poverty, such as poor living and working …
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The Poverty of China's Rural-to-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shanghai
… attention since the late 1980s, but migrants' poverty has not been properly understood. Previous studies have mostly regarded China's rural-to-urban migrants as a disadvantaged or marginalized group in the city. However, despite showing obvious signs of poverty, such as poor living and working …
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Analysis of poverty dynamics and poverty reduction in Tajikistan: A Multidimensional Perspective
… statistical descriptive methods to explore multidimensional poverty and poverty reduction initiatives aimed at its reduction. Qualitative methods are well-suited to understand social dynamics and contextual factors that impact poverty. The thesis concentrates on Tajikistan as a single-case …
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Applying fuzzy-set theoretic poverty measures within a developmental local government context : the Khayelitsha - Mitchell's Plain case study
… of the linkage between the presence of poverty and the nature of governance, something largely omitted from poverty studies in South Africa. The context of this investigation was the establishment of the new local government model (i.e. Developmental Local Government), which puts …
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The Natural Environment and local perceptions of poverty, well-being and justice in a Mexican fishing community. Gaps and bridges between local perceptions and national metrics
… is missing in the current national measures of multidimensional poverty. This doctoral research aims to understand the implications of this absence by understanding the local meanings, perceptions and lived experiences of poverty; what contributes to a flourishing, worth-lived life and justice; …
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Examining land reform in South Africa: evidence from survey data
… index applying the Alkire-Foster method of multidimensional poverty measurement (2009; 2011). This is followed by the presentation and discussion of food insecurity profiles of land beneficiary and non-beneficiary households. The new index is also used as an outcome measure in exploring the …
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Stay FLY - exploring impact measurement in NGOs funded by CSIs in South Africa: A case study on fun learning for youth (FLY)
… which are health and wellbeing; gender equality; poverty reduction; peaceful societies; resilient cities; and sustainable consumption. However, along with unemployment, inferior education is the highest contributor to multidimensional poverty in South Africa. Thus, NGOs complement the efforts of …
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Food security in the free state province: Meaning making as democratic agency
… as they struggle to survive in their democracy. Poverty is a rawness...Poverty is struggle... Poverty is shame...these were some of the themes running through people's narratives as they explained their lives. Most studies on food insecurity focus on what resources are needed to produce more …
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Youth and Organised Crime in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico: An exploration of contributing factors
… environments, as well as different dimensions of poverty. In doing so, it uses an original survey covering a sample of 180 delinquent young men aged 12 to 29, who were in prison for organised criminal activity, and a sample of 180 non-delinquents with the same age, social background, and …
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Multidimensional Development and Inequality in China. The effects of the reforms after Deng Xiaoping
TThis thesis sheds light on the multidimensional development experienced by China in the last decades, investigating to which extent different regions and segments of the society have benefitted from this process. The thesis comprises three independent chapters, each of which addresses this issue …
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An application of synthetic panel data to poverty analysis in South Africa
… a wide-reaching consensus that data required for poverty analysis in developing countries are inadequate. Concerns have been raised on the accuracy and adequacy of household surveys, especially those emanating from Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the debate has hinted on the existence of a statistical …
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Ethnic and political dynamics of poverty, employment, and wages in Kenya
… (1) Characterize the trends and patterns of multidimensional poverty levels; (2) Examine the relationship between coethnicity with the President and poverty levels and establish whether governance reforms in the post-2010 period has reduced the ethnic bias in resource distribution, and (3) …
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Ethnic and political dynamics of poverty, employment, and wages in Kenya
… (1) Characterize the trends and patterns of multidimensional poverty levels; (2) Examine the relationship between coethnicity with the President and poverty levels and establish whether governance reforms in the post-2010 period has reduced the ethnic bias in resource distribution, and (3) …
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El Sistema de Protección Social en Colombia y el aporte del Programa Mundial de Alimentos para su mejora: población migrante en situación de vulnerabilidad y su ingreso al sistema
El presente documento corresponde al Proyecto Capstone entre la Universidad del Rosario y el Programa Mundial de Alimentos (WFP, por sus siglas en inglés), en el cual se busca alcanzar el objetivo de caracterizar las personas migrantes que se encuentran en el Sistema de Protección Social mediante …
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