Essays about: "Multidimensional Poverty"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 26 essays containing the words Multidimensional Poverty.

1. 21. Forced Displacement and Labor Market Access for Women in Colombia, 2001-2011

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Claudia Cristina Medina Palacios; [2012]
   Keywords : Displacement; forced migration; women; labor market access.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Among the multidimensional effects that forced displacement has on population welfare, the economic ones may be measured in various ways: one of them is assessing the effect of being a forced migrant in the probability of accessing the labor market in the destination communities in Colombia. This is obtained through the estimation of a logit model which uses data from the “Survey in marginalized areas: sexual and reproductive health, forced displacement and poverty” made by Profamilia and it focuses particularly on females. READ MORE

3. 22. Getting out of Poverty: An Analysis of Gendered Norms and Practices within Poverty and Their Impact on the Self-Perceptions and Agency of Women in Self-Help Groups in Mumbai

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Kathrine Jensen; [2012]
   Keywords : Empowerment; gender; poverty; Mumbai; capital; agency; self-perception; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study aims to add new knowledge to our understanding of poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon and focuses on the links between poverty and gender norms and practices. The overall research question that this study is concerned with is about the effect of self-help group participation on women’s self-perceptions of options, their access to social, economic and cultural capital, and subsequently, the women’s abilities to make strategic life choices that has the potential to move then out of poverty by challenging the gendered structures in which they live. READ MORE

4. 23. Preventive Work Among Youth at Risk in Tegucigalpa - Subjective Experiences of Institutional Care

   University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, psykologi och idrottsvetenskap, PPI

   Author : Rebecca Summerton; Paulina Grönevik; [2011]
   Keywords : youth; street children; risk factors; protective factors; poverty; social work; preventive work; institutional care; ungdomar; gatubarn; riskfaktorer; skyddsfaktorer; fattigdom; socialt arbete; preventivt arbete; institutionsbehandling;

   Abstract : This study aims to explore how secondary prevention carried out at a Honduran institution for youth at risk is experienced by its professional workers and former residents. This qualitative research is based on ethnographic approaches conducted at Hogar de Niños Renacer, Tegucigalpa, which is a facility for institutional care of youth at risk. READ MORE

5. 24. Output-based aid in the urban water sector - Insights from New Institutional Economics

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Daniel Klasander; [2010]
   Keywords : urban; water; New Institutional Economics NIE ; Indonesia; Output-based aid OBA ; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This essay examines if and how output-based aid (OBA) in the urban water sector contributes to long-term and pro-poor development. OBA is a results-based method where contractual agreements stipulate subsidy payments on delivery of outputs, rather than subsidies towards project inputs. READ MORE

6. 25. Poverty and micro credit : a multidimensional impact study on indigenous women in rural Guatemala

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Hanna Wetterstrand; [2007]
   Keywords : micro finance; financial services; impact study; poverty; development; social capital; gender; Guatemala; MFS; field study;

   Abstract : The high level of economic inequality in the world today is an unacceptable. The poor people of the world lack several essential services, one of them being financial services. In order to achieve economic growth and higher incomes, capital investments are a key determinant. READ MORE