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The continuing debate about urban bisa : the thesis, its critics, its influence, and implications for poverty reduction
Corbridge, Stuart (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003067506
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Interdisciplinarity “In the Making”: Modelling Infectious Diseases
Mattila, Erika - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
The main contribution of this paper to current philosophical and sociological studies on modelling is to analyse modelling as an object-oriented interdisciplinary activity and thus to bring new insights into the wide, heterogeneous discourse on tools, forms and organisation of interdisciplinary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870942
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IMPLEMENTING HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE POOR: THE ROLLOUT OF RSBY IN KARNATAKA
Rajasekhar, D; Berg, Erlend; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Manjula, R - Institute for Social and Economic Change <Bangalore>; … - 2011
The National Health Insurance Scheme (Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, RSBY) aims to improve poor people’s access to quality health care in India. This paper looks at the implementation of the scheme in Karnataka, drawing on a large survey of eligible households and interviews with empanelled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860712
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Trade-offs between carbon sequestration and poverty allevation : preliminary evidence from the N'hambita community carbon project in Mozambique
Palmer, Charles; Silber, Tilmann - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942704
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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