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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"poverty traps"”.
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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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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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Using Asset Poverty Measures to Understand Poverty Dynamics, Poverty Traps and Farmer Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Focus on Rural Ethiopia
Effective poverty reduction programs require careful measurement of poverty status. Commonly used consumption or income-based classifications of poverty aggregate together households that are persistently poor with those who are only in poverty due to passing conditions. They also classify as …
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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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Poor Economics and the Long Term: Empirical Essays on Energy and Economic Poverty
This dissertation explores different aspects of poverty specific to urban and rural areas. The first two chapters examine energy access for poor urban households, emphasizing the need for effective energy policies that ensure access while considering environmental and climate impacts. The final two …
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The Determinants of Microinsurance Demand in South Africa
… their financial decisions and perpetuate poverty. This population group is adversely affected by illnesses, natural disasters, unemployment, and accidents than other groups because, among other things, they lack proper insurance. Microinsurance was introduced as a revolutionary tool with …
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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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Policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation in Mexico
… continents and oceans. Climate change will make povertyalleviation harder by slowing down economic growth, eroding food security, and increasing and creating poverty traps. The poor, that are highly dependent on wildlife and natural resources for their persistence, will be affected the most. …
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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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Contextualising energy justice in low-income built environment: Towards data-driven policy interventions for addressing distributive injustices in slum rehabilitation housing of the Global South
… effort to solve this crisis and alleviate urban poverty. However, the question of whether slum rehabilitation programmes are accomplishing more good than harm or whether they are creating a whole host of new problems remains unexplored in the literature. This thesis investigates the effect of …
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Empirical Essays on the Economics of Food Price Shocks: Micro-econometric Evidence from Uganda
… and to potentially increased risks of poverty traps. The essay focuses on two welfare indicators, namely consumption levels and asset indices, and employs a battery of econometric methods, ranging from parametric GMM fixed effects models to locally weighted scatterplot smoother …
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Essays on poverty reduction in Latin America
In recent years, reducing poverty has been a core objective of social policy in Latin America. In 2008, the incidence of poverty reached almost a third of the population, of which 13 percent are classified as extremely poor. Most Latin American countries have invested vast resources in poverty …
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Altruism and the role of affect: an investigation into the causal effects of positive emotions and its rationality on altruism
… in poor neighbourhoods can keep people locked in poverty. One response to neighbourhood distress – i.e., situations in which neighbourhoods serves as poverty traps – is to move people out of such situations. Experiments conducted in the United States of America (for example, the Moving to …
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Kenyan Vegetable Farmers' IPM adoption: barriers and impacts
This thesis analyzes factors affecting adoption of integrated pest management (IPM) techniques by Kenyan vegetable farmers, including the role of their risk preferences. It also analyzes factors affecting their pesticide applications and expenditures. A survey was administered to 450 Kenyan …
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Does capability measurement enable aspiration during emergent adulthood? Examining 'Poverty Stoplight' as a poverty measurement and capability building instrument for youth in South Africa
… their way through emerging adulthood and out of poverty. This research aims to deepen the understanding of youth's experience utilizing 'Poverty Stoplight'; a poverty measurement and capability building instrument that utilizes a self-assessment survey and mentorship methodology. The researcher …
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Leveraging improved seed technology, migration and climate information for building the adaptive capacity and resilience to climate risks in semi-arid regions
… families already ravaged by food insecurity and poverty. This dissertation examines three ways of reducing vulnerability to the adverse effects of climate variability and building resilience in the farming communities residing in semiarid lands. These include the use of adaptive seed technology, …