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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"regular income"”.
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Adaptation to rural transformation: a place-based investigation into post-earthquake permanent housing projects in Eastern Turkey
… for beneficiaries since most do not have regular income, as the interviewees emphasised. With regard to livelihood, the results displayed that rural people in the region are becoming less agriculture-dependent and more interested in jobs with regular income and insurance.
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“No Hay Guerra y No Hay Dinero” There is No War, and There is No Money: A Case Study of the Organic Coffee and Ecotourism Programs of UCA Miraflor, Nicaragua
… ecological, and social benefits, as well as regular income, to members involved in the organic coffee and ecotourism programs. Through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and secondary data analysis, this research illustrates the priorities of rural peasant farmers and the obstacles …
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“No Hay Guerra y No Hay Dinero” There is No War, and There is No Money: A Case Study of the Organic Coffee and Ecotourism Programs of UCA Miraflor, Nicaragua
… ecological, and social benefits, as well as regular income, to members involved in the organic coffee and ecotourism programs. Through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and secondary data analysis, this research illustrates the priorities of rural peasant farmers and the obstacles …
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The Impact of Integrated Savings and Credit Groups on Socio Economic Development to People with Leprosy Related Disabilities in Tanzania
… leprosy related disabilities establish and run income generating activities. Third, to investigate whether people with leprosy related disabilities have access to micro credit and entrepreneurship skills trainings. Descriptive research design was used, and both quantitative and qualitative …
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Livelihood and status struggles in the mission stations of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1864-1926
… some teachers the security and status of a regular income. From the 1860s to the 1910s, the UMCA did not offer clear trajectories for most of the Africans interacting with it in search of a better life. Markers of coastal sophistication, such as clothing or Swahili fluency, had greater …
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“Making ends meet”: Working-class women’s strategies against poverty in West Oxfordshire, c. 1850 – 1900
… not always be relied upon to provide a steady, regular income. Community strategies were of some value. They were provided informally by kin and the neighbourhood and formally by charities and poor relief. Third, certain factors were influential concerning the nature of strategies; namely …
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Protecting The Poor: using mobile technology to drive microinsurance adoption in Nigeria
… The first is difficulty generating regular income, while the second is vulnerability to economic, political, and physical downturns. Harder still, the two problems reinforce each other: poverty is a vulnerability source, and repeated exposure to downturns reinforces poverty. …
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Livelihood development for women with vision impairments in the informal sector in Ghana
… livelihood, they reap the benefits of a stable income source, a better standard of living, good physical and emotional health, self-identity, self-assertiveness, and positive social status. However, there is a limited body of scientific knowledge on women with vision impairments' livelihood …
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Gender dynamics in home ownership in Kampala, Uganda
… increase in information flow, education and income of women. Although married women live in a home with their husband, they do not actually own the home. As a result, women tend to be users rather than owners. Although one would expect statutory law to guarantee married women home ownership …
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Feminization of poverty within rural households of Thulamela Municipality in South Africa
… meet basic needs (76 %) and insufficient monthly income (47 %). The following were perceived as the major characteristics of poverty: inability to meet daily basic needs (54 %), lack of regular income (37 %), poor state of family dwellings (35 %), and tattered clothing items (24 %). Lack of …
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Effects of Financial Sector Development on Income Inequality
… strands of literature on the effects of FSD on income inequality allude to conflicting theoretical predictions. The major limitation of the previous studies is that they use financial institution depth measures as a proxy of aggregated FSD indicators. Financial depth alone does not consider the …
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Utilization of health and medical services: factors influencing health care seeking behaviour and unmet health needs in rural areas of Kenya
There are many factors that influence health and health care seeking. Although many of these factors are similar across populations, exactly how they interact and influence the actions of people is often unique to a population in the context of the environment they live in. The current study, a …