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This paper explores the link between poverty and resource allocation, including the management of natural resources, by …'s investment strategy and, consequently, resource management and household poverty: (i) Changes in output and input prices, and (ii …
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Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...
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In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing …, we use all commonly used inequality and poverty measures including various Atkinson indexes, Gini index, standard … deviation of the logarithms, relative mean deviation, coefficient of variation, and the poverty rate defined by the U.S. Census …
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find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …
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Mit der Beobachtung zunehmender Ungleichheit ist auch die Frage nach der sozialen Gerechtigkeit in die gesellschaftspolitische Diskussion zurückgekehrt. Ein Beispiel ist das neue Elterngeld. Hieran entzündete sich eine kontroverse Debatte, die die Auseinandersetzung um die Deutungsmacht über...
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This is a paper based on the annual lecture in honour of Hugo Sinzheimer at November 10, 2005, Hugo-Sinzheimer-Institute at the University of Amsterdam. In 1928, Sinzheimer wrote an article entitled 'Die Demokratisierung des Arbeitsverhältnisses,' (The Democratisation of the Employment...
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In diesem Diskussionspapier wird untersucht, ob sich durch die Flexibilisierung der Arbeitszeit Potentiale für mehr Geschlechtergerechtigkeit ergeben. Als normatives Konzept werden Prinzipien der Geschlechtergerechtigkeit von Nancy Fraser herangezogen, die eine Umverteilung von...
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communities, have been attributed mainly to the erosion of traditional strategies for natural resources management. In Ghana … in Ghana derives from changes in the perceptions and attitudes of local people towards tumi, the traditional belief in …-savanna transitional zone in Ghana. It would confirm that changes in traditional animist beliefs, such as tumi, which informs the worldview …
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This paper reviews the importance of traditional natural resources management practices in Ghana. It highlights the …-savanna transitional agroecological zone of Ghana to study the spirituality of forests and conservation. Among the major conclusions of the … paper is that although the potential of traditional natural resources management for biodiversity conservation in Ghana is …
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In this paper, we assume that redistribution modifies the community structure of an economy and generates both intra and intergenerational mobility. In a world in which neighbourhood attributes and family backgrounds are important to determine the investment effort and the productivity of...
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