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Understanding Social Exclusion
Hills, John; Le Grand, Julian; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
of the term, and the extent and nature of problems it encompasses. Aspectscovered include poverty dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008766032
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Outcomes from a community-based employment programme
Evans, Helen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
Twenty-five years ago, in a small closed-down shop inHighbury, the idea of helping some people into workthrough their own bootstraps was tried out in some ofLondon’s poorest communities. It relied on the motivationand basic willingness to learn of people out of work and inneed. The missing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008845702
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Informal Employment in Countries in Transition:A conceptual framework
Bernabè, Sabine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition hasincreasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media.The term ‘informal sector’ has been used to describe an extremely widespectrum of activities, which do not necessarily have much in common,such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354072
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Endogenous Lifetime and Economic GrowthRevisited
Bunzel, Helle; Qiao, Xue - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
. Interestingly, TFP growth can help economies escape the vicious cycleof poverty.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360908
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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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Growing out of Poverty : Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859744
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ECONOMIC POLICIES FOR GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT
Cameron, Gavin; Fawcett, Nicholas - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005
In 2000, the Lisbon Agenda set out an ambitious plan to make the EuropeanUnion “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy inthe world”. The Agenda suggested a need for action on three broad fronts:the first explicitly macroeconomic; the second explicitly microeconomic;the third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870190
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Identifying Social Entrepreneurs Servingthe Poor at the BoP
George, Abraham M. - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2009
for‐profit activitymight be the long‐sought panacea for solving poverty at the so‐called Base of the Pyramid(BoP) ‐‐ the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418710
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Do Europe’s Minimum Income Schemes ProvideAdequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis andHow, If at All, Have Governments Responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens withadequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on datafor 24 European Union countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486970