Essays about: "Poverty reduction"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 205 essays containing the words Poverty reduction.

  1. 16. LGBTQ+ People & Disasters - A Queer Human Rights-Based Critique of Vulnerability

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Christopher Cowan; [2022]
    Keywords : mainstream vulnerability analysis; disaster risk reduction; LGBTQ ; sexual and gender diversity; queer theory; queer legal theory; heteronormativity; subordination; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Climate change and hazard events pose an existential threat to human rights. Hazard events were traditionally viewed as ‘natural disasters’ which were beyond our control and the people caught up in them were unfortunate victims to the unstoppable force of nature. READ MORE

  3. 17. Bridging the Gap between Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction: The case of Tanzania

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Twaha Said Mwakioja; [2021-08-04]
    Keywords : Tanzania; Monetary Poverty; Expenditure per Adult Equivalent; Expenditure Distribution; Poverty Line; Headcount Ratio; Gini Coefficients; Socioeconomic Factors; National Panel Survey;

    Abstract : Most of the developing countries have experienced impressive economic growth over two decades since 1990 with more than 50 percent poverty reduction whilst most of the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are facing the challenge of little poverty reduction over this period, in which poverty on average has been reduced by 30 percent. Tanzania as part of SSA is facing the same, with poverty having declined by 31. READ MORE

  4. 18. From "the Will to Improve" to "the Will to Transform": Some Promises & Challenges of Sida's Multidimensional Poverty Analysis (MDPA) Framework in Bolivia

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

    Author : Jonathan Solarte Espinosa; [2021]
    Keywords : Sida; Sweden; Latin America; Bolivia; MDPA; multidimensional poverty; poverty reduction; development discourses; development paradigms; power; capitalism; donors; ODA; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Objectives: This study sets out to answer the following research questions: 1. How do Sida and CEDLA problematize poverty and what does this reveal about their underlying development paradigms? 2. READ MORE

  5. 19. Is there a trade-off between poverty reduction and climate action? : A glance at the determinants of official development assistance in environmentally relevant sectors

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Nora Karlsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Economics of development; climate; aid; ODA; poverty;

    Abstract : In a time where environmental issues are increasingly important and measures are being taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conserve biodiversity, aid that targets sectors relevant for these issues are important to examine. The world is simultaneously taking measures needed to increase economic development around the world, by allocating aid to developing countries. READ MORE

  6. 20. Regional Poverty Dynamics in Peru: The Role of Growth and Inequality Recent Evidence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Raisa Maria Rubio Cordova; [2021]
    Keywords : poverty; growth; inequality; Peru; informality.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In the last decades Peru experienced an unprecedented reduction in poverty amid a strong and sustainable economic rebound following structural reforms introduced in the 1990s which paralleled a downtrend in income inequality. Using microdata from the National Survey of Households (ENAHO) this study formally tests the simultaneous role of growth and inequality on poverty outcomes from 2007 to 2019. READ MORE