Essays about: "poverty and socio-economic development"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 52 essays containing the words poverty and socio-economic development.

1. 11. How to transform foreign aid in Latin America through ecological economics

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Mariana Fernandez Garcia; [2019]
   Keywords : Development; Ecological Economics; Foreign aid; Latin America; Neoclassical economics; Sustainable Development.;

   Abstract : This study mainly argues the role that neoliberalism and neoclassical economics (mainstream economics) have had through foreign aid in Latin America and its effects over the years. The mere ideology of a market-centered society has been detrimental for many already. READ MORE

3. 12. Sustainable Neighbourhood Design in Jakobsgårdarna, Borlänge

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Energiteknik

   Author : Suheyla Turk; [2019]
   Keywords : Sustainable neighborhood design; modular units; energy efficiency; affordable housing; Borlänge; Sweden;

   Abstract : Energy efficient houses benefit communities not only to provide renewable energy shares and generating surplus electricity supporting local economic development. Also, residents in energy efficient houses have less energy usage that reduces household budget expenses. READ MORE

4. 13. Horizontal Inequality in Chiapas – 25 years after the Zapatista Movement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Juliane Koch; [2019]
   Keywords : horizontal inequality; indigenous population; poverty; chiapas; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The International Development Community places individuals at the center of concern for policy making. This study investigates why group analyses are crucial for the welfare of individual and social stability, and claims that the concept of Horizontal Inequality (group-based inequality) is important but widely neglected. READ MORE

5. 14. Disaggregating economic inequality from space

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Neija Maegaard Elvekjær; [2019]
   Keywords : Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite VIIRS ; night-time lights; Gross Domestic Product GDP ; economic inequality; regional inequality; spatial inequality; Gini coefficient; spatial scale; Social Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Reducing inequality is number 10 of the United Nations sustainable development goals. Inequality in society affect economic growth, development and poverty reduction, and through these indirectly affect environmental degradation, food security and other major problems facing society today. READ MORE

6. 15. Backpacker Tourism and Local Community Development: An Analysis of Hostels as Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Sri Lanka

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Gayani Siriwardena; [2019]
   Keywords : Backpacker tourism; Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice; Hostels; Livelihoods; Local communities; Networks; Poverty reduction; Sri Lanka; Tourism industry policy framework; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is an attempt to understand if hostels, being an essential component of the infrastructural support for backpacker tourism have been instrumental in lifting up local communities in light of socio-economic development. The analysis strives to explore not only the contours of change in the community level but also the changes in the institutions and structures within which the tourism industry operates to understand how the hostel communities create their own structures through exercising power, which is a manifestation of how capitals are accumulated and transformed. READ MORE