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Asset-Centred Redistributive Policies for Sustainable Development

Kohler, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

of public goods as a means to foster human capital accumulation (e.g., the MDGs approach), but it ignores wealth … sustainable development is increasingly needed given the upcoming transition from the MDGs to SDGs in a context characterised by …

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Nutrition in Bhutan: Situational Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Atwood, Stephen J; Nagpal, Somil; Mbuya, Nkosinathi V; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet two major indicators of significant undernutrition remain persistently … nutrition-specific determinants of undernutrition in Bhutan, among them diarrheal diseases, high parasite loads in parts of the … nutrition-sensitive, such as diseases related to environmental and personal hygiene. The most important causes of stunting are …

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Towards a sustainable social model: Implications for the post-2015 agenda

Islam, Nazrul - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2014

The paper discusses the progress of Indian economy and its policies since the broad-based structural reforms initiated in 1991 with a special focus on the recent downturn following the global financial crisis. The paper is structured into two parts: first part discusses the major economic and...

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Aid and poverty: Why does aid not address poverty (much)?

Shepherd, Andrew; Bishop, Sylvia - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

Aid is not generally aimed at the poorest people, though most multilateral or bilateral agencies would like to think they get included. However, donors. strategies are generally blind to differentiation among the poor, and have not improved in this respec

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Redistributive Policies for Sustainable Development: Looking at the Role of Assets and Equity

Kohler, Pierre - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2015

Analyses of redistributive policies often focus on income flows to examine the nexus between redistribution and economic growth. With strengthening signs of growing economic inequality in many countries, an increasing number of economists investigated the existence and nature of a hypothetical...

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Nutrition, Income Instability and Quality of Life: Determinants and Differential Patterns across Members within the Household

Cárdenas, Mauricio; Maro, Vincenzo Di; Meija, Carolina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

Using an approach that complements standard income-based measures with broader measures of well-being this paper addresses the relationship between quality of life and deprivation. In particular, this study uses nutritional insecurity and income instability as measures of deprivation and...

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Questioning Psychosocial Resilience After Flooding and the Consequences for Disaster Risk Reduction

Crabtree, Andrew - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 2, pp. 711-728

This paper questions George Bonanno’s concept of resilience as “relatively stable, healthy levels of psychological and physiological functioning” (Bonanno in Am Psychol 59(1):20–28, <CitationRef CitationID="CR4">2004</CitationRef>) following potentially traumatic events (PTE). It agrees with Bonanno’s claim that significant...</citationref>

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Tracking Poverty Reduction in Bhutan: Income Deprivation Alongside Deprivation in Other Sources of Happiness

Santos, Maria - In: Social Indicators Research 112 (2013) 2, pp. 259-290

This paper analyses poverty reduction in Bhutan between two points in time—2003 and 2007—from a multidimensional perspective. The measures estimated include consumption expenditure as well as other indicators which are directly (when possible) or indirectly associated to valuable...

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Capturing Multidimensionality: What does a Human Wellbeing Conceptual Framework Add to the Analysis of Vulnerability?

Sumner, Andy; Mallett, Richard - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 2, pp. 671-690

Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, despite the fact that individuals and households experience multiple, interacting and sometimes compound vulnerabilities. However, cross-disciplinary thinking on vulnerability has emerged. At the same time, also...

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Universal and Local Reconciled: Exploring Satisfaction with Universal and Local Goals in Thailand and Bangladesh

Guillen-Royo, Monica; Camfield, Laura; Velazco, Jackeline - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 2, pp. 627-645

This paper explores factors affecting individual goal satisfaction in Bangladesh and Thailand. Analysing the determinants of goal satisfaction in two countries at different levels of development enables the paper to address the broader question of whether the common practice of classifying goals...

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