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Motivations for Women Involvement in Urban Agriculture in Nigeria

Adebisi, Adedayo; Monisola, Tunde Afolabi - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 02 (2012) 03

Poverty and food insecurity are some of the problems facing Nigerian population and governments at various levels today …

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Assessment of Poverty among Arable Crop Farmers: A Case Study of Farmers Empowerment Programme (FEP) in Osun State, Nigeria

A. B., Ayanwale; Adisa, O. D. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 02 (2012) 03

and analyzed the poverty status in terms of incidence, depth and severity among arable crop farmers in Osun State and …-test of difference of two means and p-alpha measures of poverty. The result of poverty incidence, depth, and severity among … respondents indicated that poverty incidence was lower among the FEP beneficiaries (0.42) than the non beneficiaries (0 …

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The effect of welfare sanctions on TANF exits and employment

Wu, Chi-Fang; Cancian, Maria; Wallace, Geoffrey - In: Children and Youth Services Review 36 (2014) C, pp. 1-14

Using longitudinal administrative data for Wisconsin, this article accounts for the length of time on welfare and the length of sanctioning to better understand the effect of work-related financial sanctions on cash welfare (TANF) participants' program exits and subsequent employment. Temporary...

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Deservingness, children in poverty, and collective well being

Cousins, Linwood H. - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 8, pp. 1252-1259

Rising numbers of children and families have been thrust into poverty. However, debates about poverty policies and aid … ambivalence and confusion about poverty. Because poor children are innocent and indisputably dependent on adult caretakers, they …

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Stability and sequence of center-based and family childcare: Links with low-income children's school readiness

Ansari, Arya; Winsler, Adam - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 2, pp. 358-366

The school readiness of a large sample (n=2682) of ethnically and linguistically diverse, low-income children was examined as a function of whether children remained in family childcare (FCC) or center-based care (CBC) throughout their three and four-year-old preschool years, or whether they...

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Child poverty in cross-national perspective: Lessons from the Luxembourg Income Study

Gornick, Janet C.; Jäntti, Markus - In: Children and Youth Services Review 34 (2012) 3, pp. 558-568

This paper draws on the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) microdata to paint a portrait of child poverty across a diverse … group of countries, as of 2004–2006. We will first synthesize past LIS-based research on child poverty, focusing on studies … that aim to explain cross-national variation in child poverty rates. Our empirical sections will focus on child poverty in …

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Finance is good for the poor but it depends where you live

Rewilak, Johan - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 5, pp. 1451-1459

extending Dollar and Kraay’s data, their findings are robust to the Lucas critique and economic growth is important for poverty … adding a further contribution to the literature on financial development and poverty. …

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Dynamics of retail-bank branching in Antwerp (Belgium) 1991–2006: Evidence from micro-geographic data

Huysentruyt, Marieke; Lefevere, Eva; Menon, Carlo - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 2, pp. 291-304

We exploit a comprehensive new panel dataset on retailbank branch locations in 233 neighborhoods (local markets) in the metropolitan area of Antwerp to describe (i) how between 1991 and 2006 the patterns of bank presence, entry, exit and choice deeply evolve and (ii) whether and how changes in...

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The extractive industries and development in sub-Saharan Africa: An introduction

Hilson, Gavin - In: Resources Policy 40 (2014) C, pp. 1-3

This paper introduces a special issue on the extractive industries and development in sub-Saharan Africa. The special issue draws attention to the potential for the region׳s extractive industries to deliver much-needed development and the challenges with making this a reality. It also draws...

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Mission impossible?: Adopting a CSR-based business model for extractive industries in developing countries

Slack, Keith - In: Resources Policy 37 (2012) 2, pp. 179-184

Corporations in the extractive industries often state their commitment to “corporate social responsibility” principles, but their actual implementation of these principles, particularly in developing countries, is questionable. This contradiction between rhetoric and reality is attributable...

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