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This paper proposes a simple methodology for measuring and analyzing the cost effectiveness of food pantries and other food distribution programs that transfer in-kind benefits to the poor. The methodology suggests that even if the administrative cost, management, and nonfood costs of running...
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While thrift stores are associated with the idea of thrift, it does not follow that they attract only clients with limited resources who are highly price sensitive. Today thrift stores are becoming less stigmatized and are attracting middle class clients and the better off as well. This suggests...
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for poverty reduction and rural development. The data and information were generated from combined descriptive and field …. The application of microcredit to other poverty groups who actually need subsidies and social safety nets would be a … Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). Its graduated strategy for helping the poor should be applied to the poverty pyramid by …
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people who might otherwise be at increased risk of HIV infection through poverty-induced decisions to migrate to urban …
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perceptions and habits. As a result some nonprofits are considering expanding their thrift store operations, often with the hope …
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. The understanding of poverty underlying the paper is in terms of diet, not income per capita, housing or literacy, or any … consisting almost exclusively of the cheapest foodstuff (potatoes) is both the definition of and the principal measure of poverty …
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We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful relationship between beneficiary welfare and the extent of community participation implemented by an...
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We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful relationship between beneficiary welfare and the extent of community participation implemented by an...
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Das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie besteht in der Rekonstruktion und Analyse von Digitalisierungsdiskursen, die auf 2018 und 2019 besuchten Tagungen zu sozialen Dienstleistungen, Ehrenamt und ländlicher Entwicklung beobachtet wurden. Auf Tagungen geben Akteurinnen und Akteure ihrem...
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