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Poverty and Apostolate
<p>Poverty is not the object of a special virtue. The lack of material things — the just not having necessities or even abundance is not in itself virtuous. There is no intrinsic goodness to a privative thing. On the contrary, if it is a privative thing (a lack of a good that should be) poverty is …
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Principals' Lived Experiences in Childhood Poverty Impacting Resiliency of Students in Poverty
The number of children living in poverty within the United States is on the rise, which translates to more public school students experiencing those risk factors associated with poverty. Given the severity of the negative effect living in poverty has on the likelihood of academic success, paired …
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Analysis of poverty dynamics and poverty reduction in Tajikistan: A Multidimensional Perspective
… 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 study to address …
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Poverty mapping in Namibia
The concept of poverty is interpreted and understood in different ways, but when it comes to actually measuring poverty, several difficulties arise which can lead to different interpretation. This dissertation draws its analysis from "Living conditions in Namibia: a household income and expenditure …
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Barriers to Leaving Poverty
… that refocuses their goal on the eradication of poverty. The challenge for the design team was reimagining with fresh eyes the organization’s programs and service delivery model by examining what is needed from a holistic approach to move individuals out of poverty; becoming self-sufficient …
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Framing global poverty: European newspapers, NGOs and citizens and poverty in developing countries
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Using Asset Poverty Measures to Understand Poverty Dynamics, Poverty Traps and Farmer Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Focus on Rural Ethiopia
Effective poverty reduction programs require careful measurement of poverty status. Commonly used consumption or income-based classifications of poverty aggregate together households that are persistently poor with those who are only in poverty due to passing conditions. They also classify as …
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Examining the relationship between early childhood teacher empathy, poverty perceptions, and experiences with poverty
… to examine the relationships between empathy, poverty perceptions, and lived experiences of 156 early childhood educators. An online survey was utilized to gather data, with the results being applied to address the research questions. A correlation was conducted to determine if a relationship …
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Up From Poverty: A Narrative Non-Fiction Study of Three Female Superintendents from Poverty
… in the state of Texas who have lived in poverty during their youth and early life. The participating female superintendents were contacted by this researcher through email. The information used in this study was collected from participating superintendents through interviews and analyzed …
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Getting Out of Debt Poverty
… in which these institutions intertwine extreme poverty, credit, and marginalisation. The dissertation proceeds to examine the role of the state in the provision and regulation of credit, and in the entrenchment of extreme poverty. It provides a sustained historical analysis of the role of the …
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Poverty, politics and global justice
… into the ethics and politics of global poverty. The main focus will be on the multidimensional concept of poverty in relation to, global politics and justice in the context of contemporary political thought and philosophical research,. The research methodology used in this study is that …
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Multidimensions of Poverty: An Analysis of the Differential Effects of Racism and Poverty on Skeletal Growth
… physical, and economic well-being. However, poverty is multidimensional and means more than just a lack of money and income (UNDP 2009; Potter et al. 2012). The differential effects of economic poverty, such as malnutrition and exposure to environmental pollutants, have variable effects on …
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Poverty, Inequality & Terrorism Relationship in Turkey
Poverty, Inequality & Terrorism Relationship in TurkeyUsing empirical evidence criminological studies have identified a relationship between poverty and crime and many studies have concluded that a high crime rate is associated with a higher poverty rate. Other studies indicate that inequalities …
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The Impact of Microfinance On Poverty
… caution that the impact of microfinance on poverty is expected to be small, but still make the argument that microfinance does indeed have its place in poverty alleviation. Moreover, while microfinance is a micro-level economic phenomenon, the world of microfinance has grown so significantly …
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Rural poverty, vulnerability and food insecurity
… Latin America. This study analyzes whether rural poverty increases the incidence of food insecurity and whether food insecurity perpetuates the condition of poverty among the rural poor in Bolivia. In order to achieve this aim, the risks that households face and the capacity of households to …
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Three essays on poverty and inequality
… three essays that analyses income inequality and poverty. Chapter 1 examines the impact of education on income inequality in 18 Latin American countries between 2000 and 2010. This period has raised interest in the academic community because inequality has fallen across the region, after several …
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Overdue Debt as a Poverty Trap
… light on the role of overdue debt in reinforcing poverty. This not only helps to better understand the dynamics of poverty trap induced by overdue debt but also enhances the rediscussing of current policy tools. Our research is based on data collected with targeted questionnaires in March and …
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Income Distribution and Poverty in Brazil
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T04:04:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8209623.pdf: 5751542 bytes, checksum: 13fa7aea2dfcad65b7c71c7624dfcb42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1982
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