Essays about: "Measurement and analysis of poverty"

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1. 1. WOMEN´S POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT AND LOWERED SOCIO-ECONOMIC BARRIERS UNDER THE CONTEXT OF CORRUPTION. A quantitative cross-country study of the effect of women´s political empowerment on socio-economic barriers moderated by corruption

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Marie Aagaard Holden; [2022-08-11]
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   Abstract : This thesis theorizes that higher levels of women’s political empowerment (WPE) lower socio-economic barriers to development across countries and that this is moderated by countries’ level of corruption. Using cross-sectional data from more than 100 transitioning and developing countries from 2009 and 2014 this thesis develops upon the results of previous research on WPE and poverty reduction under different contexts by extending the analysis to include a measurement of political empowerment including both empowerment in official political positions, formal empowerment, and as political empowerment of ordinary citizens in civil society, informal empowerment. READ MORE

3. 2. Contemporary Measurements of Poverty : Does Modern Poverty Measurement instances fully consider the complexities of gender Dimensions?

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Marcus Strandgård; [2022]
   Keywords : Aggregation; Content Analysis; Disaggregation; Health and Demographic Surveys; Household Surveys; Indicators; Individual Surveys; Inequality; Measurement; Multidimensional; Poverty; SDG.;

   Abstract : This essay concerns itself with the measurement of poverty. Through a lens of gender sensitivity, combined with three dimensions of gender, this essay analyses the quality of various SDG indicators. READ MORE

4. 3. AID EFFICIENCY: CAPABILITIES ENHANCEMENT OR VALUE FOR MONEY A comparative study of Sida and DFID

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Viorica Doros; [2021-02-22]
   Keywords : Sen’s capability approach; value for money; aid efficiency; Sida; DFID; agency; well-being; IAGG;

   Abstract : Evaluative frameworks of aid efficiency have various approaches based on donor priorities, international agreements and agenda, and existing theories in place. This thesis aims to investigate whether measurement of capabilities enhancement is losing ground to Value for Money Approach – a theory perceived to look into cost-effectiveness and economic growth only. READ MORE

5. 4. Determinants of Child Poverty in Uruguay: The impact of gender inequality

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Paula Tatiana Perez Martinez; [2016]
   Keywords : Child poverty; gender wage gaps; educational gender gaps; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to examine the response of child poverty to wage and educational gender gaps within the household. The analysis combined household level longitudinal data, from Uruguay’s Continuous Household Survey carried on in 2012 and 2013, with the survey of Nutrition, Child Development and Health conducted in the country in the same years. READ MORE

6. 5. Water Well Investigations in the Nampula Province, Mozambique - A Minor Field Study

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Teknisk geologi; Lunds universitet/Ekosystemteknik (CI)

   Author : Elin Olsson; [2016]
   Keywords : Geophysical borehole logging; resistivity; natural gamma radiation; Nampula; Mozambique; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Access to clean water for drinking and sanitation is a human right. Today water scarcity is a large problem and inequality in access to safe water is a striking truth. READ MORE