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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"poverty trap"”.
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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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Unlocking Africa's poverty trap : holistic approach to BOP investment in agribusiness
… farming as a significant opportunity for poverty reduction and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. By taking a holistic, standardized, and bundled approach, this paper proposes an innovative business model that enables small-holder farmers to access affordable extension services, …
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Escaping an institutional poverty trap : learning behavior as a collective action problem in Brazil's pharmaceutical industry
… qualitative methodologies to a traditional poverty trap framework, this work analyzes the effect of institutions on evolving micro-level attitudes towards learning in a complex, technologically-intensive industry plagued by high prices, widespread product safety challenges, and parasitic …
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The impact of household poverty trap on learners’ academic performance in Nongoma secondary schools in the Zululand district
… critically examined the impact of the household poverty trap on learners’ academic performance in nongoma secondary schools in the Zululand District. The researcher explored the relationships that defined the overlaps between the needs of the learners in the classroom and the household needs and …
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The effect of household poverty trap on learners’ performance in secondary schools in Nongoma in the Zululand district.
Poverty has and will continue to precipitate enormous suffering for countless of learners living in ab-ject poverty in the rural area of Nongoma. The study examine how poverty trap limit the academic performance of learners in the rural secondary schools of Nongoma. Also, it identifies various …
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Risk preferences and the poverty trap : a look at technology uptake amongst small-scale farmers in the Western Cape
The poverty trap hypothesis postulates that very low income individuals may be trapped in poverty because severe constraints give rise to behaviour that limits their ability to take up and benefit from new investments. Furthermore, the theory suggests that insurance and credit can serve as …
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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 Labour Party and family income support policy; 1940-1979. An examination of the party's interpretation of the relationship between family income support and the labour market.
… the party's policy towards the wage-stop and the poverty trap. Until 1963 the party ignored the wage-stop but from then until 1975 a section of the party campaigned against the regulation expressing moral revulsion and concern about its administration but only rarely opposition to the principle. A …
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How to Overcome Poverty Traps by Education
The thesis addresses the question of how poverty can be overcome by education. The starting point is the following type of poverty trap: poverty forces parents to send their children to work to secure the survival of the household. Due to child labor, children do not attend school and do not form …
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The Impact of Student Attendance, Socio-Economic Status and Mobility on Student Achievement of Third Grade Students in Title I Schools
… long term unemployed, homeless, caught in the poverty trap, dependent on welfare and involved in the justice system” (House of Representatives, 1996 p. 3). Researchers have sought to find factors that contribute to student non-attendance (Odell, 1923; Reid, 1999; Mitchell, 1993). This study …
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The Poverty of China's Rural-to-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shanghai
… 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 obvious signs of poverty, such as poor living and working …
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The Poverty of China's Rural-to-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shanghai
… 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 obvious signs of poverty, such as poor living and working …
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Africa’s March Towards Prosperity Understanding the role of gender equality, human capital and fertility in securing Africa’s promising future
… countries are often at risk of falling into a poverty trap, whereby economic growth and prosperity is thwarted due to both endogenous and exogenous factors, including limited access to capital, poor infrastructure, low education levels, corruption, and many others. This is particularly true for …
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Can process facilitation re-route ecotourism development? : case studies in facilitating ecotourism planning in South Africa and Madagascar
… need to be developed in order to avoid the poverty trap and environmental degradation.
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Agricultural Technology Adoption and Adaptation under Climate Change: Microevidence from Niger
… food production, and might keep households in poverty trap. Other determinants affecting inputs adoption on the land including temperature increase, income, farm size, and rainfall level of the previous year. I discuss policy recommendations.</p>
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Asset dynamics and the long-term impact of microfinance in rural Bangladesh
Deep global poverty persists despite decades of coordinated development efforts seeking to eradicate it. Recent literature has taken a new approach to defining the underlying mechanisms of lasting poverty in terms of asset ownership and the ways in which households accumulate productive assets over …
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Margins in the mountains: poverty dynamics in India’s western and eastern Ghats
Extreme poverty is a persistent issue in south India and there are moral and economic imperatives to change this situation. Effective poverty reduction strategies require ongoing advances in knowledge so that strategic action on poverty alleviation can be implemented. This thesis addresses that …
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LOSS AVERSION AND THE INTERGENERATIONAL CORRELATION OF INCOME
… the model can also help explain the larger poverty trap and lower affluence net in black families as opposed to white families. Simulation results compare favorably to intergenerational quintile transition rates in the literature. The model takes many generations to reach educational …
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Mean reversion in macroeconomic and financial data
… the probability of escaping a low-income poverty-trap appears to depend significantly on the existence of such a stable middle-income group. The third essay studies the individual income convergence issue. The recent literature on 'global income distribution' has recently focused on …
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Low-income housing in Kampala, Uganda : a strategy package to overcome barriers for delivering housing opportunities affordable to the urban poor
… and entrepreneurship for people stuck in the poverty trap.
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