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Marginality and multidimensional poverty : a case study of Christian community of Lahore, Pakistan
Zahra, Kanwal; Zafar, Tasneem - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 9 (2015) 2, pp. 322-335
Marginality and social exclusion are the pertinent concepts that researchers have tried to link directly or indirectly … examines the relationship between marginality and poverty in a systematic manner and investigates the multidimensional poverty …
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Who's In and Who's Out: Social Exclusion in Latin America
Sojo, Carlos; Behrman, Jere R.; Rada, Ernesto Pérez de; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Social exclusion is closely linked with many economic problems in Latin America, as it prevents people from reaching their full productive potential -in turn constraining growth and revenues- and makes them more likely to incur public health and social service costs. Who's In and Who's Out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943550
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Who's In and Who's Out: Social Exclusion in Latin America
Sojo, Carlos; Behrman, Jere R.; Rada, Ernesto Pérez de; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Social exclusion is closely linked with many economic problems in Latin America, as it prevents people from reaching their full productive potential -in turn constraining growth and revenues- and makes them more likely to incur public health and social service costs. Who's In and Who's Out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772474
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Mapping marginality hotspots: Geographical targeting for poverty reduction
Graw, Valerie; Ladenburger, Christine - 2012
dimensions of marginality overlap - the marginality hotspots - based on proxies for marginality dimensions representing different … spheres of life. Furthermore, overlaying the marginality hotspots with the number of poor shows where most of the poor could … be reached to help them to escape the spiral of poverty. Marginality hotspots can be found in particular in India and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327390
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Mapping marginality hotspots and agricultural potentials in Bangladesh
Malek, Mohammad Abdul; Hossain, Md. Amzad; Saha, Ratnajit; … - 2013
prevalence of poverty and other dimensions of marginality are high and agricultural potential is also high since in such areas …. The marginality mapping presented in this paper has attempted to identify areas with high prevalence of societal and … spatial marginality - based on proxies for marginality dimensions representing different spheres of life - and high (un …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327434
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Institutional environments for enabling agricultural technology innovations: The role of land rights in Ethiopia, Ghana, India and Bangladesh
Schädler, Manuel; Gatzweiler, Franz W. - 2013
Land rights are essential assets for improving the livelihoods of the rural poor. This literature based paper shed light to some land rights issues that are crucial for the effectiveness and sustainability of implementing technological innovations in marginalized rural areas of Ethiopia, Ghana,...
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Innovative business approaches for the reduction of extreme poverty and marginality?
Baumüller, Heike; Ladenburger, Christine; von Braun, … - 2011
flexibility to direct business objectives towards the reduction of extreme poverty and marginality, and their ability to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327451
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Marginality: Addressing the root causes of extreme poverty
Gatzweiler, Franz W.; Baumüller, Heike; Ladenburger, … - 2011
The need to address extreme poverty from the perspective of marginality arises from the frustration that the number of … science and action. The conceptual and analytical framework developed here views marginality as a root cause of extreme … poverty. We define marginality as an involuntary position and condition of an individual or group at the edge of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327503
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Between hope and hype: Traditional knowledge(s) held by marginal communities
Siriwardane, Rapti; Winands, Sarah - 2013
Traditional Knowledge (TK) systems have always been integral to the survival and adaptation of human societies. Yet, they enjoy a fairly recent recognition and popularization by scientists, the media, politicians, corporates and the wider public. In this paper we present a typology of key...
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An index of unfairness
Aguiar, Victor H.; Pongou, Roland; Serrano, Roberto; … - 2018
Aguiar et al. (2018) propose the Shapley distance as a measure of the extent to which output sharing among the stakeholders of an organization can be considered unfair. It measures the distance between an arbitrary pay profile and the Shapley pay profile under a given technology, the latter...
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