Essays about: "social factors that lead to poverty"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words social factors that lead to poverty.

  1. 1. Local Entertainers in Cebu, Philippines Entertainment and Sex Work: The Struggle for Empowerment

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Judith Loyzaga Skoglund; [2023-12-18]
    Keywords : Philippines; entertainer; empowerment; pragmatism; stigmatization; sex worker; prostitution;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine why local women in Cebu, Philippines, chose to work as entertainers and sex workers. It will examine how their occupation affect their daily lives, in regard to their economy and their social relations with their families, colleagues and customers. READ MORE

  3. 2. Local Entertainers in Cebu, Philippines: Entertainment and Sex Work: The Struggle for Empowerment

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Judith Loyzaga Skoglund; [2022-11-09]
    Keywords : Philippines; entertainer; empowerment; pragmatism; stigmatization; sex worker; prostitution;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine why local women in Cebu, Philippines, chose to work as entertainers and sex workers. It will examine how their occupation affect their daily lives, in regard to their economy and their social relations with their families, colleagues and customers. READ MORE

  4. 3. HEALTH DISPARITIES OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN A LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE IN COMBINATION WITH INCARCERATION

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

    Author : Anna Maria Lami; [2018]
    Keywords : crime; disparities; health outcome; incarceration; life-course perspective; social determinants;

    Abstract : Poverty it is said to have harsh outcomes on one's antisocial or even delinquent behavior. Other factors as well lead an individual to antisocial behavior those are the environment that they are living, and their genes that have passed from one generation to the other one. READ MORE

  5. 4. Energy poverty in the Dublin region : modelling geographies of risk

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Elin Haettner; [2017]
    Keywords : risk modelling; multicriteria analysis MCA; energy poverty; geography; geographical information systems GIS; Dublin; Ireland; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Energy poverty (EP) is, in the scholarly literature, defined as a household’s inability to obtain a socially and materially acceptable level of energy services in the home. This is a widespread issue affecting an estimated 50 to 125 million people in Europe. READ MORE

  6. 5. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): A means to address food insecurity? A Nexus Analysis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Ramón Voss; [2016]
    Keywords : FDI; food security; food insecurity; economic growth; poverty reduction.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Food insecurity is a major problem for humanity. Especially in developing countries, the proportion of people who go to bed hungry is substantial. A basic reason, among other factors, is the dominant poverty in those regions. READ MORE