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the broadening of definitions of poverty and ill-being and the current predilection for participatory research. The CWP … exercise was intended to provide a nuanced understanding of poverty, and is supposed to reflect a fresh approach by the World …
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This paper is concerned with the factors that influence and constrain NGO contributions to poverty reduction in a … globalizing world, focusing on their role as transmitters of grounded knowledge about poverty in very poor countries. Interviews … local understandings about poverty are being overridden by so-called programmes of partnership support that erode local …
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Poverty is often presented as an evolving concept linked to dominant development paradigms. However, changes in the … meaning of specific topics comprising definitions of poverty have been largely overlooked. Therefore, the authors adopted a … synchronic approach to evaluate changes contained within 159 definitions of poverty offered over a 30-year period from 1970s to …
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concludes that, to reduce poverty, interventions must be accompanied by broader packages of prolonged support, enabling …
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The article attempts to explain the underlying rationale for consideration of remittances as a potential source of Innovative Development Finance (IDF). Remittance is considered as IDF in the face of declining flow of external resources, mainly foreign aid, in Bangladesh. The sources of...
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This study attempted to assess the impact of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia’s (AIM) microcredit programme on the level of economic vulnerability among hard core poor household clients in Peninsular Malaysia. To attain the objective, this research utilized economic vulnerability index. This study...
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This study discusses the relationship between poverty and vulnerability. It investigates how vulnerability can be … integrated into the livelihood framework for poverty alleviation and vulnerability mitigation, as well as the development of … the development process and embedded in everyday lives and livelihood practices. Poverty and vulnerability reduction are …
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This article addresses how far international rights charters and the rights claims they give rise to act as levers for development through a discussion of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most widely ratified rights Convention of recent times. It recognizes the seminal importance...
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poverty integration. Alternatively, if racial segregation pushed higher- and lower-income African Americans to reside together … neighborhoods, decreasing poverty integration. Using consistently bounded census tract data for thirty-six large metropolitan areas … of the metropolitan population by race and poverty status group between 1980 and 2009 to the proportions of each race and …
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During the first decade of the 21st century, China’s top leaders reined in the marketising, commercialising welfare reforms of the 1990s, and recommitted the State to a role in providing social goods. But the governmental and social elites who shape welfare policy are still debating the...
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