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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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Schools in Disadvantaged Areas: Recognising Context and Raising Quality
Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower indisadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has beenfocused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring therelationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the qualityof...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354052
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Public and Private Welfare Activity in the UnitedKingdom, 1979 to 1999
Smithies, Rachel - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
This paper analyses the shifting balance between public sector and privatesector welfare provision in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. Fivesectors – education, health, personal social services, housing, and incomemaintenance and social security – are examined over three time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354035
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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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Capital and the Determinants of Poverty and SocialExclusion
Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
Types of capital which determine the ability of individuals, ofcommunities and of nations to avoid poverty and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354068
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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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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