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A community-based framework for poverty alleviation: the case of post-revolution Egypt

Abdel-Baki, Monal - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) January, pp. 81-96

Purpose – As with many rapidly growing developing nations that suffer from inequity and political oppression, popular rebellion has long been likely in Egypt. As uprisings burgeoned in 2008 and it became especially evident that a popular revolution was imminent, which made it crucial to detect...

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Trade policy and human development: a cross-country perspective

Peneva, Desi; Ram, Rati - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) January, pp. 51-67

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study the relation between “restrictiveness” of a country's trade policy and its socio-economic well-being as reflected in the indicators of human development. Design/methodology/approach – A recently-developed trade-restrictiveness-index...

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Correlates of poverty in Fiji: An analysis of individual, household and community factors related to poverty

Gounde, Neelesh - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) August, pp. 923-938

Purpose – The purpose of this paper uses household survey data to model the correlates of household consumption and poverty in Fiji. A multivariate empirical analysis is conducted to ascertain those household and community characteristics that correlate with household welfare and poverty. In...

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Trade policy and human development: a cross-country perspective

Peneva, Desi; Ram, Rati - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) January, pp. 51-67

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Social development in market society by intrinsic value account: a case of China

Wang, Bing - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) July, pp. 671-689

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reargue the great controversies surrounding marketization, by the concept of intrinsic value and to give a panorama of China's marketization and social development during last 30 years. Design/methodology/approach – The concept of intrinsic value is...

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Capability, objectivity and “false consciousness”: on Sen, Marx and J.S. Mill

Qizilbash, Mozaffar - In: International Journal of Social Economics 43 (2016) 12, pp. 1207-1218

Purpose The extent to which Amartya Sen’s capability approach is prefigured in Karl Marx’s views comes into sharper focus when one notes that Marx and Friedrich Engels explicitly argued that the transformation from capitalism to communism would involve the development of “a totality of...

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Community involvement and development

Katamba, David; Marvin Nkiko, Cedric; Tushabomwe … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 41 (2014) 9, pp. 837-861

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how ISO 26000 inter-marries with millennium development goals (MDGs … standard, ISO 26000, to guide its corporate social responsibility (CSR) aimed at contributing to MDGs. The paper focussed on … the CSR dimension of community involvement and development (CI&D) interventions in health-related MDGs (4, 5 and 6). Data …

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Distributional impact of public expenditure on human development in Nigeria

Edeme, Richardson Kojo; Nkalu, Chigozie Nelson; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 12, pp. 1683-1693

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and apply a distributional impact assessment methodology to empirically analyze distributional impact of public expenditure on human development using data from 20 states in Nigeria. For robustness of the analysis, expenditure on education, health,...

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Spiritually inspired creativity in business

Zsolnai, László; Illes, Katalin - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 2, pp. 195-205

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relation of spirituality and creativity in business context. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents practical examples of spiritual-based creative business models in different faith traditions (Hinduism, Christianity and...

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Inclusive growth through creation of human and social capital

Dinda, Soumyananda - In: International Journal of Social Economics 41 (2014) 10, pp. 878-895

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse inclusive growth that focuses on the creation of opportunities for all. Inclusive growth allows people to contribute to and benefit from economic growth, while pro-poor growth approaches focusing on welfare of the poor only to reduce...

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