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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Poverty research"”.
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How university-based poverty research centers aim to inform antipoverty policy and practice
… describes the activities of two university-based poverty research centers in the United States—the Center for Research on Poverty in Society (CRPS), and the Regional Poverty Research Center (RPRC). Using a multiple case study approach, at each center, the study included document analysis; …
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The Working Poor: Negotiating Life
… project offers a synthesis of the leisure and poverty research. It reveals some of the creative responses that people use to negotiate balance in their struggles with poverty. Although the participants used a number of strategies to respond to their daily life conditions, leisure emerged as a …
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The role of cash social benefits in poverty reduction in Lithuania: Ddscipline, redistribute, include, invest /
… at analysing the role of cash social benefits in poverty reduction in Lithuania in the context of diversification of the ways the poverty problem is framed in the academic and political domains. In the first part of the dissertation, a theoretical scheme for analysis of the poverty reduction …
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Piniginių socialinių išmokų vaidmuo mažinant skurdą Lietuvoje: disciplinuoti, perskirstyti, įtraukti, investuoti /
… at analysing the role of cash social benefits in poverty reduction in Lithuania in the context of diversification of the ways the poverty problem is framed in the academic and political domains. In the first part of the dissertation, a theoretical scheme for analysis of the poverty reduction …
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Influences on Children's Human Capital in Rural Malawi
… asset data broadens the possibilities of wealth-poverty research that can be undertaken in poor settings. In the next chapter, I use the wealth index to identify a health-wealth gradient for children under 5 years, and I determine whether the gradient varies with age. I find that children in …
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Barriers to selling livestock in the face of drought in the Omusati Region of North Central Namibia
… livelihoods due to environmental degradation and poverty. Research has shown that livestock farming depends on rain-fed agriculture among other things, thus making communal farmers vulnerable to climate change in the future. Given this, it often makes sense for farmers to sell their livestock and …
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The Poverty of China's Rural-to-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shanghai
… migration has attracted a great deal of research 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 …
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The Poverty of China's Rural-to-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shanghai
… migration has attracted a great deal of research 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 …
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Utilising social entrepreneurship to facilitate the successful transition of foster youth to adulthood in South Africa
… They are at high risk of being trapped in poverty and unemployment for their entire adult life because they are unable to make a successful transition out of the foster care system to adulthood. The purpose of this study was to explore how social entrepreneurship can be utilised to …