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1. 1. Energy Poverty: Geospatial Modelling in 2021 Berlin using publicly available data : KTH Thesis Report

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

   Author : Rita Aparici Quiñones; [2023]
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   Abstract : Energy services are essential for human development and well-being, and the unequal distribution of them leads to inequalities and vulnerabilities. Energy poverty, generally understood as the inability to heat a household, is an increasingly pressing issue that in the context of political and climatic instabilities could affect more and more households. READ MORE

3. 2. Working partially on the working poor: Explaining the indirect approach of the European Social Fund+ towards in-work poverty

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Iñigo Perez Mugica; [2022]
   Keywords : in-work poverty; European Social Fund; process-tracing; Multiple stream; Qualitative Content Analysis; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In-work poverty is a societal problem that should be prevented according to the European Pillars of Social Rights. However, the European Social Fund Plus, being the main European social policy, only addresses the issue indirectly. The aim of this thesis is to build an explanation for this partial actuation of the European Union. READ MORE

4. 3. Theorizing the External Actorness of the European Union in Global Development Governance : The Case of Aid Effectiveness in Post-Cotonou Development Policy

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Maria Ioannou-Naoum; [2021]
   Keywords : global development governance; aid effectiveness; EU actorness; Social Constructivism; Role Theory; norms; poverty eradication; foreign policy; development policy.;

   Abstract : The European Union (EU) is the world’s leading development donor, playing a pivotal role in shaping development norms. This paper aims to investigate the extent to which the EU has been effective in its external aid actorness towards global poverty eradication during the post-Cotonou negotiation period (2000-2020). READ MORE

5. 4. The European Union Development Policy between Intention and Public Perception: ​Analysing the Role of Feedback from Project Beneficiaries

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Diana Casian; [2021]
   Keywords : feedback; development policy; European Union; public perception; actorness; participatory development; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The European Union’s development policy has the primary goal to eradicate poverty at the global level and to promote sustainable development. But is the EU doing enough effort to engage the voices and the needs of the poor in order to deliver locally informed aid projects? Emerging from these complex questions, the following research explores the importance and resourcefulness of an institutionalised feedback mechanism between the development agency of the EU and beneficiaries of its funded projects. READ MORE

6. 5. Never Mind the Brexit: Poverty in the UK : A Comparative Qualitative Content Analysis of the Conservative Party’s Poverty and Welfare Discourses, 2015 - 2019

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Robert Harrison; [2021]
   Keywords : Poverty; Welfare; Discourse; United Kingdom; European Union; Brexit.;

   Abstract : In a 2018 United Nations (UN) report on extreme poverty and human rights in the United Kingdom, the British government was condemned for their implementation of austerity measures. The Conservative Party, who had instigated and overseen the austerity measures, were accused of dismantling the welfare state and forcing millions of people into poverty. READ MORE