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Progressive Social Change – Women’s Empowerment
Speight, Tim Braunholtz; Harper, Caroline; Jones, Nicola - eSocialSciences - 2009
€™ experiences of poverty differ in important ways. It is also discussed how understanding the gender dimensions of chronic poverty … face in many country contexts, but also for tackling poverty more broadly. [Policy Brief No. 12]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967295
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Grassroot Empowerment (1975-1990): A Discussion Paper
Banerjee, Narayana K - eSocialSciences - 2010
The discussion focusses on women in poverty their concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505783
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Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?
Addison, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focus here is on the smaller countries emerging from civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543096
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Aid, Debt Relief and New Sources of Finance for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
Addison, Tony; Mavrotas, George; McGillivray, Mark - eSocialSciences - 2010
since the late 1990s conclude that aid increases economic growth. By implication, therefore, it can be inferred that poverty …. A downturn in volumes in the 1990s is demonstrated. It asserts that poverty is higher and the MDGs are hard to achieve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500222
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Children's Educational Completion Rates and Dropouts in the Context of Ethiopia's National Poverty Reduction Strategy
Woldehanna, Tassew; Jones, Nicola; Tefera, Bekele - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
primary education. The findings have important implications for the formulation and revising Ethiopian Poverty Reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005060660
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Why is so Little Spent on Educating the Poor?
Addison, Tony; Rahman, Aminur - eSocialSciences - 2007
If the poor are to benefit from economic growth, then they need the skills that are in growing demand, and the capacity to raise their productivity as smallholder farmers and micro-entrepreneurs. Yet, the poor seldom receive a satisfactory education. Too little is spent on primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528373
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Stemming Girls’ Chronic Poverty: Catalysing Development Change by Building Just Social Institutions
Harper, Caroline; Jones, Nicola; Watson, Carol - eSocialSciences - 2010
intensify poverty for girls and women over the life-course. Girls’ vulnerabilities in relation to poverty dynamics are … particularities of their life stage. What happens at this critical time in their lives can reinforce their poverty status and that of … their of spring, or infuence their movement into or out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677809