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Climate justice for persons with disability : few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much

Tampubolon, Gindo - 2023

Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability. Social justice holds when inequality is responded to by rules that afford more primary goods, such...

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Transitional justice and aid

Hellsten, Sirkku - 2012

This paper examines the current security-governance-development nexus, something that is often also discussed under the concept of "transitional justice" (TJ). The paper analyses how the ambiguous, evolving and expanding nature of the concept of TJ affects the planning, coordination, evaluation...

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Impact assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales programme in Nicaragua

Barendrecht, J. M.; Kokke, Margot; Gramatikov, Martin A.; … - 2013

Facilitadores Judiciales is a programme run by the Organization of the American States and the Nicaraguan judiciary. The main objective of the programme is to improve access to justice for the disadvantaged people in Nicaragua. From 1998 to 2010 the programme was implemented in almost all rural...

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Access to what? : legal agency and access to justice for indigenous peoples in Latin America

Brinks, Daniel M. - 2016

In this paper I issue a call for a primary focus on expanding and strengthening alternative, community-based justice system, as a strategy for securing the full benefits of legal agency to indigenous and other culturally distinct groups. I do so because what lies within the formal justice system...

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Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform : tensions and trade-offs of land registration and titling in sub-Saharan Africa

Boone, Catherine - 2017

Land registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect smallholders' and pastoralists' rights of access to land and other land-based resources. Land registration is also on the ethnojustice agenda in parts of Africa and beyond. Yet...

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Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? : Insider-outsider theory revisited

Ronconi, Lucas; Kanbur, Ravi; López-Cariboni, Santiago - 2019

Contrary to the predictions of the insider-outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions, across different types of protective labour...

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Communication matters : sensitivity in fairness evaluations across wealth inequality expressions and levels

Oppel, Annalena - 2023

individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality … survey experiment. In this way it aims to see whether individuals' fairness evaluations change across different levels of … expressions, and percentages and multiples for relative expressions. The results point to a notable difference in fairness …

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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi : a micro-simulation

Nanivazo, Malokele - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on children's enrolment and gender, are...

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The care connection : the World Bank and women's unpaid care work in select sub- Saharan African countries

Bibler, Sarah; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013

With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in...

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Impact of income and non-income shocks on child labour : evidence from a panel survey of Tanzania

Bandara, Amarakoon; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Rouse, Shaheen Lavie - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of income and non-income shocks on child labour using a model in which the household maximizes utility from consumption as well as human capital development of the child. Two types of shocks are considered: agricultural shocks as an income shock and the death...

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