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This essay examines the humanitarian design movement’s efforts to address the crushing need, social precarity, and ecological frailty that define global megacities. The aims and character of the humanitarian design movement have been shaped by both the ethical demands of antiglobalization...
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In the immediate aftermath of Zimbabwe’s Economic Structural Adjustment Program (ESAP) experiment, radical changes that completely redefined life in rural areas appear to have taken place. The demise of the worker–peasantry was finally achieved. Using an extended case of...
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The main rationale for defining two-parent families eligible for welfare was to keep families intact by eliminating an incentive for union dissolution. But there are other reasons for family instability, most notably women’s reduced economic gain from marriage associated with having a...
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economy is associated with higher levels of earning in the informal economy. Our findings have implications for poverty … analysis in South Africa. Policy which views poverty as being located outside the mainstream of the economy—in the so …
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looks at six indicators of district-level deprivation: the poverty rate; the food scarcity rate; the (gender …
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-importer countries like Indonesia. This study aims to measure the impact on poverty in Indonesia of volatility in the world price and … poverty line, it was shown that the dramatic volatility of world soybean prices during 2007–09 had a significant effect on … increasing poverty in Indonesia. The simulation result showed that a 40 per cent increase in world price raises the head count …
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(that is, poverty, inequality, economic growth, education, employment, unemployment and the standard of living index) based … increase in the growth rate of urban inequality, a reduction in the growth rate of urban poverty and a lower level of overall …
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This article attempts to lay out the broad discursive space connecting the triad of microfinance, poverty and … approach to both poverty and patriarchy. The article argues that microfinance can at best become a coping strategy for poor …
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Using newly collected data from a household survey of 575 coffee farmers in traditional coffee growing regions of India, this article answers policy-relevant questions regarding (a) the nature, extent and intensity of inclusiveness of subsidies to coffee farmers and (b) responsiveness of...
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This article first examines the question, “What is a living wage?†and provides a range of specific dollar amounts derived through a conceptual assessment of the term. It then provides a series of cost estimates of living wage laws in various cities. Based on these cost estimates, the...
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