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Social Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rivera-Santos, Miguel; Holt, Diane; Littlewood, David; … - 2017
Responding to calls for a better understanding of the relationship between social enterprises and their environments, this article focuses on contextual influences on social entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. We identify four predominantly African contextual dimensions, i.e., acute poverty,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036759
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Resource rents distribution, income inequality and poverty in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - In: Energy economics 66 (2017), pp. 35-42
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896422
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Direct distribution of rents and the resource curse in Iran : a micro-econometric analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - 2014
Resource-rich economies and ethnically divided societies are linked to higher income inequality at the macro level. Our … goal is to empirically examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … policy is the most successful policy for addressing rents-induced inequality in Iran compared with the alternative policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337064
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Direct distribution of rents and the resource curse in Iran : a micro-econometric analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - 2014
Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … rents-induced inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361509
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The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Fieldof Human Rights
Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist ProfessorAmartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways inwhich Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rightsdiscourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how hiswork...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354037
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Some reflections on poverty eradication, true development and sustainability within CST
Sapena, Juan; Almenar, Vicent; Apetrei, Andreea; … - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 3 (2018) 2, pp. 90-92
Poverty eradication has been repeatedly identified as the largest challenge facing international society in its quest for a peaceful, prosperous, and just world. The present document summarizes academic reflections on the links between the concepts of poverty, development and sustainability....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853630
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Surviving Poverty in a Post-Welfare Reform America
Cords, Danshera - 2016
This review of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer discusses their research and findings regarding the poorest of the poor in post-welfare reform America. This thoroughly researched work presents a stark picture of modern poverty - today, more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994067
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The role of corporate citizens in fighting poverty : an ordonomic approach to global justice
Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan - 2008
Drawing on an ordonomic approach, this paper argues that a theory of global justice should incorporate as a pivotal cornerstone a theory of corporate citizenship which constructively addresses business firms as agents of social value creation. We argue that, instead of relying exclusively on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758134
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How do financial reforms affect inequality through financial sector competition? : evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
In the first empirical study on how financial reforms have been instrumental in mitigating inequality through financial …: (1) while formal financial development decreases inequality, financial sector formalization increases it; (2) whereas … semi-formal financial development increases inequality, the effect of financial semi-formalization is unclear; (3) both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410012
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New financial development indicators : with a critical contribution to inequality empirics
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
The employment of financial development indicators without due consideration to country/regional specific financial development realities remains an issue of substantial policy relevance. Financial depth in the perspective of money supply is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409823