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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"rural poverty"”.
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Rural poverty, vulnerability and food insecurity
… in Latin America. This study analyzes whether rural poverty increases the incidence of food insecurity and whether food insecurity perpetuates the condition of poverty among the rural poor in Bolivia. In order to achieve this aim, the risks that households face and the capacity of households to …
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Road Infrastructure and Rural Poverty in Ethiopia
… and declining natural resource base, tackling rural poverty necessitates an increase in overall factor productivity or a rise in the market rate of return of assets possessed by the poor. Towards achieving these objectives, the role of spatial integration of markets and the efficiency with …
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From Within the Abyss: Drug Users in Areas of Rural Poverty
… drug use, specifically drug use in areas of rural poverty. Look at any "Faces of Meth" billboard or listen to any corporate-news program and one might assume there is a drug epidemic in rural areas. Without research, this allows the viewer to assume that poverty is the fault of the drug user …
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Who knows what's best for the poor? : demand-driven policies and rural poverty in northeast Brazil
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Rural poverty & social isolation: measuring the impact of a national initiative in Northern Ireland using binary logistic regression
Rural Northern Ireland (NI) is home to an increasingly ageing and vulnerable population. Chiefly, the sternest challenges facing the most vulnerable include proximity to services (health, educational and recreational centers), transport and fuel poverty. NI’s response is not limited to EU funded …
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Assessing the Potential of a Locally Adapted Conservation Agriculture Production System to Reduce Rural Poverty in Uganda's Tororo District
… the utility of small area estimation (SAE) of poverty methods for researchers that wish to conduct a detailed welfare analysis as part of a larger survey of a small geographic area of interest. Researchers studying context-specific technologies or interventions can incorporate the survey-based …
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The Role of Rural Roads Construction in Reducing Rural Poverty in Tanzania : The Case Study of Mwandiga- Manyovu Road Network in Kigoma Region
… was selected as the case to analyze the role of rural roads construction in reducing poverty in rural areas in Tanzania. Descriptive Qualitative and Quantitative analysis were conducted taking into account experience of the people along Mwandiga Manyovu road network, in Kigoma Region, Tanzania. …
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Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions of the Impact of Poverty on Instruction and Support with Elementary Students Experiencing Rural Poverty in a Rural Title I Elementary School
… family (or individuals in a family) as being in poverty. Poverty is not solely about income thresholds; rather, how much income levels impact learning, education, and teachers is a greater area of concern. The purpose of this study was to explore how teachers’ perceptions of poverty impact how …
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Forests and Farming: An analysis of rural livelihood programs for poverty reduction in eastern Zambia
… (JFM) and agricultural programs at reducing rural poverty in Zambia. Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programs in Africa have been aimed at improving livelihoods, creating tangible benefits, and increasing incomes from forests and forest products through the sustainable use …
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Forests and Farming: An analysis of rural livelihood programs for poverty reduction in eastern Zambia
… (JFM) and agricultural programs at reducing rural poverty in Zambia. Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programs in Africa have been aimed at improving livelihoods, creating tangible benefits, and increasing incomes from forests and forest products through the sustainable use …
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Academically Resilient Elementary Students in one Virginia school division: Identifying and Exploring Protective Factors
… in family, school and community as perceived by rural elementary students who experienced poverty and demonstrated academic resilience in a Virginia school division. By identifying the common protective factors among the academically resilient elementary students, school leaders and educators can …
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Projeto Cooperar: levantamento histórico da política de combate à pobreza rural no Estado da Paraíba em parceria com o Banco Mundial
… intends to present a brief report about the anti-poverty policies in Paraiba implemented in partnership with the World Bank for over 35 years. During this time the technical unit of state government running the program received several names like: Comissão Estadual de Planejamento Agrícola-CEPA, …
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The political economy of inequality : poverty, drought and aid programmes in Botswana, c. 1982 - 1988
… to make rapid improvements in the provision ofrural health care, primary education, and water supplies.However, despite these improvements to the ruralinfrastructure little has been achieved in stimulating oreven maintaining rural incomes and levels of employment.The nutritional status and …
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Paper, Pottery and Prosperity: Handicrafts and Rural Development in Thailand
… is on the role of handicraft production in rural development in Northern Thailand, exploring how handicrafts evolve over time in the context of a modernising economy. This links with on-going debates on community-based development theory, including those related to rural industrialisation, …
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Rust Belt Blues
… re-visits a neglected asylum, and writes of rural poverty. In her critical introduction “The Abandoned Houses are All of Us: Toward a Rust Belt Persona,” Stine examines the work of contemporary nonfiction writers born in and / or concerned with the Rust Belt, finding that their work shares …
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The Use of Landsat Data to Monitor Forest Destruction in Eastern Honduras
… and soil erosion, floods, drought, and rural poverty. Further, the world's remaining tropical forests are disappearing at accelerating rates, and this may be contributing to global climate change. This change detection case study investigates forest destruction using Landsat TM data over …
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A inserção do desenvolvimento sustentável nos projetos de redução da pobreza rural do Banco Mundial no Estado da Paraíba
… process and relate it to the Cooperar Project, a rural poverty reduction initiative at Paraíba, implemented by the State Government in partnership with the World Bank, in order to identify in its trajectory the implementation of the main components related to the sustainable development concept. …
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Small scale farming on Wetland resource utilisation: a case study of Mandlanzini, Richards Bay
Wetland utilisation by rural communities in South Africa poses a serious challenge for natural resource conservation. The growing rate of rural poverty, poor education and socio-cultural beliefs contribute towards the current plight of many wetlands. The challenge that faces wetland sustainability …
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The apotheosis of the green revolution and the throes of landless peasant women in two Aegean villages of Turkey in the 1960s
… of agrarian transition and the experiences of rural women in these processes have never lost their appeal for sociological study, although the studies have focused on the political economy of development and rural women in development in the 1960s and 1970s and have then shifted to …
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OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS TO COMMUNITY FORESTS FOR LOCAL INCOME GENERATION AND LIVELIHOOD: A CASE STUDY OF FOUR COMMUNITY FORESTS IN BUMTHANG DISTRICT, BHUTAN
… goal that community forestry can contribute to rural poverty alleviation in Bhutan, in addition to sustainable forestry. While studies have been conducted on the relative achievements of community forests at the community level, few report on the dynamics of the program on individual household …
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