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Understanding Social Exclusion
Hills, John; Le Grand, Julian; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
of the term, and the extent and nature of problems it encompasses. Aspectscovered include poverty dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008766032
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Sprouting Seeds
Evans, Helen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
Twenty-five years ago, in a small closed-down shop inHighbury, the idea of helping some people into workthrough their own bootstraps was tried out in some ofLondon’s poorest communities. It relied on the motivationand basic willingness to learn of people out of work and inneed. The missing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008845702
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Informal Employment in Countries in Transition:A conceptual framework
Bernabè, Sabine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition hasincreasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media.The term ‘informal sector’ has been used to describe an extremely widespectrum of activities, which do not necessarily have much in common,such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354072
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Nutrition and Economic Destitution in Northern Ghana, 1930-1957. A Historical Perspective on Nutritional Economics
Destombes, Jerôme - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870780
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Mapping Poverty in Agar Town: Economic Conditions Prior to the Development of St. Pancras Station In 1866
Swensen, Steven P. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
Poverty.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870937
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Modelling Vulnerability in the UK
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005871008
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Knowledge-Based Economic Development: Mass Media and the Weightless Economy
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … poverty aremixed. There is some robust evidence of the negative association of ICT expenditureswith corruption. An ICT index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005871009
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Social Exclusion and Children:A European view for a US debate
Micklewright, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
to children in theUS, I discuss various features of US society and institutions includingthe measurement of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695289
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Growing up: School, family and area influences onadolescents’ later life chances
Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
local area when growingup, on earnings capacity and poverty risk once they reach adulthood.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695292
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The Future of Social Justice in Britain: A NewMissionfor the Community Legal Service
Stein, Jonathan M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
’s Legal Aid systemand the concurrent pursuit of progressive anti-poverty, social inclusion,community regeneration, and human … aneffective engine of social inclusion and fighting poverty throughinsuring and expanding rights to critical benefits and services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695293