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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"chronic poverty"”.
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The anatomy of public works : an exploration of the social protection function of public works programmes in contexts of chronic poverty
… public works programmes (PWPs) in the context of chronic poverty, with a particular focus on the fundamental questions of programme incidence and impact. It reviews PWPs from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, using original qualitative and quantitative data drawn from a range of …
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Three Essays on the Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations
… The second essay entitled "Transient and Chronic Poverty in the US: The Role of the Food Stamp Program" examines the unique and common determinants of short-term intra-annual transient poverty and chronic poverty, as well as the differential response of each state of poverty to Food Stamp …
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Combining theoretical concepts and tools: mapping human deprivation in the City of Cape Town
… at the city scale, three concepts namely, poverty, chronic poverty and vulnerability, and the practical tools of socio-economic indicators and geographical information systems (GIS) are interrogated and critiqued for their usefulness for mapping human deprivation at the city scale. Poverty, …
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Poverty and the public school system: Student persistence from elementary school to college graduation
<p>Children living in poverty are at an elevated risk for academic, behavioral and emotional problems compared with children who are in the middle and upper classes (Kim-Cohen et al., 2004). Students living in poverty generally have fewer opportunities in schools as schools are less likely to offer …
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Responding to multi-dimensional forms of poverty in the context of HIV/AIDS: experiences of mothers in Khayelitsha
… class and a large population living in deep, chronic poverty plagued with unemployment. Those suffering from the greatest poverty are unemployed women caring for children. In the context of a distinct underclass that has been historically marginalized from the labour market and a welfare …
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As long as they don't bury me here : social relations of poverty in a Southern African shantytown
… and under the same conditions seem trapped in chronic poverty and apparently give up making much of their lives? The study is based on fieldwork conducted intermittently from 1991 to 2001, using qualitative anthropological methods supplemented by quantitative measures of material poverty. It …
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Three Essays on Food Stamp Program Participation and Poverty Dynamics
… “Intensity of Food Stamp Use and Transient and Chronic Poverty: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics” examines the impact of intensity of use of FSP benefits on household exposure to transient and chronic poverty with respect to food and housing expenditures. The study finds that FSP …
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Distinguishing between Chronic and Transient Poverty in Mozambique
… which can 1) distinguish between the chronic poor and transient poor and 2) be feasibly implemented as targeting criterion in poverty interventions. Data for this study was drawn from Mozambique's 2008/09 Household Budget Survey and consisted of 10,832 observations. This study fills a …
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Marginación socio-espacial: Programas de rehabilitación de patologías estructurales en el polígono de viviendas del barrio Besòs de Barcelona
… and institutional actions by the recognition of chronic poverty, deteriorating buildings as opposed to the proper location (urban land bank) makes the concept of rehabilitation a "euphemism" for their real estate goals. The compared to the institutional proposals of rehabilitation further …
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Traps and tools: a contextual critique of the right to development in international law
Chronic poverty existing alongside surplus wealth engages issues of ‘rights’ and ‘development’; however, law’s capacity to respond to these issues appears gravely limited and under analysed. This paradoxical coexistence of poverty and wealth in society and ‘rights’ and ‘development’ in law tends to …
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"TO GIVE OR NOT TO GIVE:" INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RURAL RELIEF CLIENTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS DURING THE EMERGENCY RELIEF PERIOD OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 1933 TO 1935
… from long term unemployment and subsistence poverty while the federal government's New Deal attempted to address the problems of poverty. But the rural poor were affected by a kind of chronic poverty that would prove more difficult to address with government-run relief efforts. Because …
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A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF BLACK FEMALE OFFENDERS' RECIDIVISM AND THEIR CONTEXTUAL NEEDS
… results. Black mother-offenders' high rates of chronic poverty and unemployment, single parenting, domestically abusive relationships, victimization, and substance use began in their ethgender marginalization. To eliminate the disparities in incarceration rates among Black mothers, the problems …
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Dosage, Severity, Frequency, and Chronicity Effects of Adversity Exposure on Children's Grammar Abilities
Children exposed to adversity (e.g., chronic poverty, traumatic events, child maltreatment) are at increased risk for performing below age-expectations on norm-referenced language assessments, but it is unknown whether the risk is higher for specific language impairment. Previous research has not …
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A study of waste management policy implications for landfill waste salvagers in the Western Cape
… people reside in the Western Cape. The chronic and devastating nature of poverty is forcing thousands of vulnerable people into subsistence waste picking. These people dig through ingrained dirt and filth-ridden mud to extract items that they can use to construct and furnish their homes, …
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Poverty of Indigenous People in Taiwan ¿ rethinking agency, embedded disposition, role of family and institution in the study of poverty.
Recently, the issue of poverty amongst indigenous people has become a significant topic in literature on social policy and development studies. The literature mainly looks at this issue in terms of an unequal and one-sided relationship between the mainstream society and an indigenous minority …
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Public Works Programmes: Review of their effectiveness and empirical essays on their contribution to climate resilience and social cohesion
Poverty, underemployment, lack of infrastructure, low agricultural productivity, degradation of natural resources, climate change, and eroding social cohesion are among the biggest challenges that many low and lower-middle income countries are facing. Objectives linked to addressing these pressing …
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The Extent and Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria: Evidence from Household Expenditure Survey Datasets and an Assessment of the Impact of Oil Industry
… three distinct chapters, this thesis analysed poverty mobility, inequality, and developments in oil industry. Given that the rate of progress against poverty is considered to be an increasing function of growth (Ravallion and Chen, 1997; Ravallion, 2001; Dollar and Kraay, 2002, 2016); and based …
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Prospects for economic growth and poverty reduction in Uganda: a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) analysis
… the proportional of people living below the poverty line to below 20 percent, and attaining other Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015. These developments have prompted the government to prioritise poverty alleviation and the attainment of sustainable real GDP growth (i.e. at 7 …