Essays about: "how to fight against poverty"

Found 5 essays containing the words how to fight against poverty.

  1. 1. Conditional Cash Transfers and Gender Equality: Short-Term Effects on Female Empowerment

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Emma Brunberg; [2015]
    Keywords : conditional cash transfers; female empowerment; poverty reduction; Indonesia; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have become an increasingly popular policy approach in the fight against poverty. In addition to their main goal of reducing poverty, CCT programs are also often claimed to have positive short-term impacts on beneficiary women. READ MORE

  3. 2. Mobile phones as tools for social change. A case study of mobile phone use and access amongst Tanzanian youth

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Adela Rodrigo; [2011]
    Keywords : Tanzania; Youth; Mobile phones; mobile; development; participation; communication; empowerment; M4D; ICT; ICT4D; social change; ICT for development; Africa; Femina; Femina HIP; CSO; multimedia;

    Abstract : Access, use and ownership of mobile phones is increasing rapidly in Tanzania, as in the rest of Africa. It is estimated that a staggering 97% of the population are able to access a mobile phone, according to a study carried out by the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Vodafone. READ MORE

  4. 3. Corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina : Causes, Consequences and Cures

    University essay from Nationalekonomi

    Author : Nedim Kahvedzic; Samir Losic; [2010]
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    Abstract : The state of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a developing country that once was a part of thecommunist Yugoslavia, is struggling to move from wartime to peacetime, to shift from acentrally controlled economy to a free market economy, and to stir from a socialist stylegovernment to a democracy. All of these processes lend themselves to great corruption. READ MORE

  5. 4. HIV/AIDS in economic growth models : how does HIV/AIDS influence the Solow Growth Model and what are the implications of the pandemic for the fight against poverty for countries in Sub-Saharan Africa?

    University essay from Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Ekhagen; [2009]
    Keywords : Economic growth; HIV AIDS; poverty;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the impact from HIV/AIDS on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. This is an important region for investigation since HIV/AIDS is more common in poor countries where economic growth levels are initially low. The theoretical framework for the analysis is the Solow Growth Model. READ MORE

  6. 5. 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