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Diabetes and depression comorbidity and socio-economic status in low and middle income countries (LMICs): a mapping of the evidence
Leone, Tiziana; Coast, Ernestina; Narayanan, Shilpa; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Non-communicable diseases account for more than 50% of deaths in adults aged 15–59 years in most low income countries. Depression and diabetes carry an enormous public health burden, making the identification of risk factors for these disorders an important strategy. While socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745662
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Neighbourhood management and the future of urban areas
Power, Anne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper is about low-income neighbourhoods, their organisation and management. It is not a study in deprivation, but …-level problems. It addresses environmental and social problems within neighbourhoods as part of a wider understanding of social … British examples, many of the issues are relevant to other countries. Although its focus is on low-income urban neighbourhoods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126202
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Is targeting deprived areas an effective means to reach poor people? An assessment of one rationale for area-based funding programmes
Tunstall, Rebecca; Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Area-based programmes have long been a feature of urban policy in the UK. One rationale is that they are an effective means to target poor people. Area deprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This paper reviews the different results produced by these indices. It then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126662
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The marginal income effect of education on happiness: estimating the direct and indirect effects of compulsory schooling on well-being in Australia
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Wooden, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education improves the overall well-being of citizens. However, little is known about the causal pathways through which education shapes people’s subjective well-being (SWB). This paper explores the direct...
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Developing and agreeing a capability list in the British context: what can be learnt from social survey data on ‘rights’?
Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
The paper examines what can be learnt about the ‘valuation’ of freedoms and opportunities (or capabilities) using a general population social survey data source on values. On the assumption that rights can be understood as protecting underlying critical freedoms and opportunities, social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071145
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Schools in disadvantaged areas: recognising context and raising quality
Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower in disadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has been focused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring the relationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125921
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Identifying vulnerable groups in the Kyrgyz labour market: some implications for the national poverty reduction strategy
Bernabe, Sabine; Kolev, Alexandre - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working … is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty Monitoring Survey, which is the only survey to date that allows a comprehensive … analysis of poverty and labor market outcomes in the Kyrgyz Republic. The period under investigation covers the years 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125996
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Individual choice and social exclusion
Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Why is social exclusion a problem? What about ‘voluntary’ social exclusion – when an individual chooses to exclude him or herself from the wider society? Brain Barry has addressed these questions in a recent CASE book, arguing that social exclusion, voluntary or involuntary, offends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126398
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Informal employment in countries in transition: a conceptual framework
Bernabe, Sabine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition has increasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media. The term ¿informal sector¿ has been used to describe an extremely wide spectrum of activities, which do not necessarily have much in common, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126486
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Mixed dominance: a new criterion for poverty analysis
Howes, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1993
well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic … dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by Atkinson (1987). Indeed, two of the best known poverty indices, the head … provides a more comprehensive coverage of poverty indice. By establishing the relationship between welfare and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744956