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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effect of Islamic microfinance on poor households through the case of the IKSAR Qard al-Hasan Program in Turkey. To achieve this aim, it examined the changes in the socio-economic status of beneficiaries before and after the program....
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the degree of ethnic residential segregation and diversification in Dutch neighbourhoods. Design/methodology/approach – Using data on neighbourhood level, the authors calculate segregation and diversification indices, and illustrate the...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critique the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. Design/methodology/approach The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use the Health and Retirement Study to examine the social security (SS) claiming decision of older Americans, with a focus on the behavior of the unemployed. Design/methodology/approach Using a duration model first, and a bivariate probit framework then,...
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, housing improvement and poverty alleviation among the urban poor in informal housing settlement. Practical implications – WAT … access to housing, which is regarded as a poverty reduction asset.  …
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poverty, segregation and redevelopment. The purpose of this paper is to appraise mixed‐income housing development with the … of criminalization of the poor as being not suitable to live side by side with the rich. Poverty and marginalization can …‐sectoral collaboration and partnership between the public and private sectors in addressing informal settlement challenge and urban poverty …
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poverty. Practical implications – For managers, this paper provides insights not emphasizing a “fortune at the bottom of the …
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absorption, while the welfare society measured by the Human Development Index (HDI), unemployment and poverty level. Findings The … the poverty rate in two and three years ahead, however, has no correlation with the unemployment. The effectiveness of … poverty. Harmony of spending also neglected to raise the HDI and to reduce the level of unemployment although it can alleviate …
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Purpose – This paper aims to explore the poverty and vulnerability of poor urban communities living in Dhaka City …'s slums. Design/methodology/approach – Poverty line definition often conceptualises poverty in terms of income, consumption … paper argues that slum communities experience poverty and vulnerability in terms of income, consumption and asset which is …
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to analyse the cross‐country variation in the growth elasticity of poverty across a … variables that may explain the cross‐country variation in the growth elasticity of poverty, the paper sets up a theoretical … the growth elasticity of poverty. Practical implications – Countries that reduce regulatory burdens, improve literacy …
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