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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Structural poverty"”.
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Asset-Based Measures for Machine-Learning Poverty Maps
… comparable, decomposable, structural asset poverty measures. These measures are founded in theory, link directly to official poverty lines, and are amenable to ML-based prediction using Earth Observation data. Using household survey data from Tanzania, Uganda, and Malawi, we …
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Why do the poor stay poor? Three essays on asset dynamics and poverty traps
World poverty is a persistent phenomenon despite international efforts and the improvements achieved in the last few decades. For many people it can be a chronic condition. This thesis aims at testing that the main reason some people are poor is due to a poverty trap, i.e., to some contextual …
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The Impact of Food Insecurity on Child Development in London and Islamabad
… a low-to middle-income area characterised by structural poverty and a weak institutional framework. A critical appraisal and synthesis of 20 studies published between 2018 and 2025 was conducted using a systematic review methodology. The results indicated that food insecurity presents in …
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Decentralisation and establishment of local government in Lesotho
… of “good governance” and a prerequisite for structural poverty alleviation. This paper seeks to analyse how the given decentralization strategy and its implementation is affecting different features of good governance in the case of Lesotho. The results of the analysis confirm that the …
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Breakdown of the work ethic? : an analysis of labour force attachment in a marginalised community
… by key features of social exclusion, exhibiting structural poverty, chronic joblessness and benefit dependency, residents will be exposed to an environment that 'reinforces' the unemployed condition, primarily through a weakening of the attachment to work for its residents. This phenomena is seen …
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Shanghaization of Mumbai: visions, displacements, contestations
… of mega-urbanization, new rural and urban poverty and inequality. This has prompted a reexamination of the growth strategies in countries such as India and China who have made “inclusive growth” as their central goal of development planning. In the context of inclusive growth, urban …
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Salesianische Bildungspolitiken im Kampf gegen die intergenerationelle und interkulturelle Reproduktion der Armut in indigenen Gruppen in Bolivien
Armut ist kein statisches, isoliertes oder nur materielles Phänomen, sondern reproduziert sich strukturell und mit verstärkter Ausprägung in den nächsten Generationen. Ihre Ursache ist nicht rein wirtschaftlich, sondern die Konsequenz eines langen historischen Prozesses der Negierung und …