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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Social Safety Net"”.
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Empirical analyses of the social safety net
Chapter 1: Food Pantry Policies and Nutritional Quality: Applying the Healthy Eating Index to Food PantriesFood pantries are a significant source of food support for families suffering from food insecurity in Minnesota, but studies have found shortcomings in the nutritional quality of the bundles …
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Social Safety Net Programs and Household Behavior
… consists of two essays analyzing the effect of social safety net programs on beneficiary behavior in India. The first paper uses data from the National Sample Survey, a nationally representative survey of Indian households, to study the impact of expanding government food aid on child labor and …
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Co-ordinating social protection programme: the case of the social safety net in Zambia
… analysis of the activities of the National Social Safety Net (NSSN) in Zambia with particular emphasis on the coordinating function. The report is a result of the student's attachment to the NSSN for a period of four months from 1 July to 31 October 1999 and is in partial fulfilment of the …
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The International Monetary Fund and Social Safety Net Construction Failure in Indonesia 1997-1998
Throughout the International Monetary Fund's history it has been criticized for failing to address the negative impact its adjustment programs have on the poor in borrowing countries. This study examines the Fund's declared intention and actions regarding the construction of a social safety net in …
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Spatial and Cultural Dimensions of Social Service Access in Majority Black Neighborhoods
… poor increasingly dependent on the work of local social service providers. Such organizations, however, are often not located in disadvantaged neighborhoods, particularly those with a high proportion of Black residents. This dissertation explores the implications of these spatial disparities in …
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Social safety nets in presence of weather shocks: three essays on development economics from village economies in Kenya
… understanding of the important role played by social safety net programs in supporting poor households mitigate the effects of weather shocks, reduce poverty and vulnerability, and increase consumption of healthy food. In achieving this, we undertake an in-depth analysis supported by …
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Exploring the socio-economic outcomes of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) social safety nets in Epworth and Hopley urban suburbs - Zimbabwe
… impact of Non- Governmental Organizations' (NGO) social safety net interventions in a context of existing social insecurity in Zimbabwe. The theoretical framework of the Capability Approach and the Ecological Perspective were adopted as the qualitative research and in-depth evaluative tools. A …
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Food Security Goals and Public Distribution System: Potential for Outcome Improvement through the Digitization of India’s Distribution Regime
… one of which is the consideration of food-based safety net programs that support adequate consumption and contribute to assuring food for people living above and below the poverty line, and for destitute farmers (the “targeted population”). Food-based safety net programs can take several …
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Socio-economic effects of HIV/AIDS on small and medium sized enterprises in Oshakati, Namibia
… and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) provide a social safety net for the poor, the uneducated, for women and children and as such have not been spared the effects of the pandemic. In fact, they appear to be the worst hit by the pandemic
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Has Neoliberalism Affected American Civil Liberties? Examining the Criminal Justice System and the Welfare State
… but overtime has developed into an arm of state social control. This thesis asks if neoliberal economic policies have affected civil liberties in the United States and sets out to understand this relationship in several ways. Firstly, by investigating the shift from Keynesianism to market …
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Effects of economic transition policies on Yugoslavia's agricultural sector: A quantitative approach
… and policies. It is shown that including the social safety-net policies produces faster privatization with fewer adverse social effects than if privatization is an objective per se.
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Restaurant Crowdfunding Activities and African American Restaurateurs' Financing Experiences: From Macroeconomic Policies to Ethnic Enclaves
… show that state-level free market policies and social safety-net spending have an inverted U-shaped relationship with restaurant entrepreneurs' crowdfunding activities. Study 2 explores strategies that African American restaurateurs can use to secure financing in the conventional capital market …
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Challenges Facing Poor Households in Complying with Cash Transfer Conditionalities. A Case of TASAF III at Iguguno Ward in Mkalama District Council
… with the conditionalities of the Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN) Programme. This study was conducted at Iguguno Ward, Mkalama District Council in Singida Region. The identified poor households with children receive cash transfer but in turn their children are required to be enrolled to …
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Co-Governing Care in Astoria, Queens: The Role and Responsibility of the City in Supporting Community-Led Solidarity Networks
… government response and an overburdened social safety net left millions facing unemployment, eviction, and food insecurity with limited institutional support. Yet alongside these systemic failures, mass acts of solidarity emerged, as unprecedented numbers of people mobilized mutual aid …
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Keeping the authority public : public housing preservation and organizational restructuring with the Rental Assistance Demonstration
… about the loss of public control over a critical social safety net, other public housing authorities ("PHAs") have begun to use the program to empower themselves and ensure the financial stability and health of their entire portfolios. Since the program's pilot period began in 2012 at least three …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
… on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become more stingy and punitive, particularly since the passage of welfare reform in 1996. On the surface, this does not seem to be the case for the food stamp program or for emergency food providers like soup kitchens and food …
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The effect of school feeding programmes in addressing food insecurity in the Mutale Municipality of Vhembe District, Limpopo Province in South Africa
… feeding programmes within the wider context of social assistance and a component for securing food for the wellbeing of Mutale rural inhabitants. The major problem identified in this study was the inadequacy of governmental interventions, specifically the social assistance component, to …
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Home is where the heart is : trauma-informed practices, fraught transitions to housing, and radical hope among those fighting homelessness in Boston
… inefficiencies, wage stagnation, a diminished social safety net, social reproduction theory, racism, and the financial and power inequalities of capitalism. Second, homelessness is traumatic, including five categories of trauma: trauma wrought by power relationships, physical trauma, emotional …
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Tracing the Evolution of Welfare Discourse from 1990 to 2016
… writing in early 2022, TANF remains part of the social safety net, though it provides far weaker support than its predecessor for women and children living in poverty. Yet TANF recipients are rarely subjects of media discourse.</p> <p>How did we arrive at this point? What impact did TANF’s …
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Alone at home: post-9/11 military veterans and American housing and homelessness policy by Kerry Anna Spitzer.
The social safety net available to veterans is far more robust than for civilians in the United States, however, veterans are still more likely to experience homelessness than their peers. As the number of veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continues to increase, it is essential that …
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