Essays about: "socioeconomic inequality"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 51 essays containing the words socioeconomic inequality.

  1. 21. Urban Redevelopment in Shenzhen, China : Neoliberal Urbanism, Gentrification, and Everyday Life in Baishizhou Urban Village

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Johan Backholm; [2019]
    Keywords : Urban Redevelopment; Neoliberal Urbanism; Gentrification; Urban Village; China;

    Abstract : Urban redevelopment is increasingly used as a policy tool for economic growth by local governments in Chinese cities, which is taking place amid rapid urbanization and in an expanding globalized economy. Along with the spatial transformation, urban redevelopment often entails socioeconomic change in the form of processes of gentrification, which is propelled by the dominance of neoliberal market-oriented policy and practice in the country. READ MORE

  3. 22. Petty Debt: A Comprehensive Examination of Michigan’s Deferred Presentment Industry and Its Growth between 2000-2018

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Kevin Ryan Richardson; [2019]
    Keywords : payday lending; payday lender; deferred presentment; Michigan; economic history; Detroit; recession; fringe banking; overdraft; poverty penalty; working poor; urban; financial services; inequality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The payday lending industry in Michigan grew rapidly in the first decade of the 2000s, providing high-cost loans to borrowers with a damaged credit history and few other financial options. The typical clientele of payday lenders represents a specific socioeconomic demographic, wherein they are most often the ‘working poor’. READ MORE

  4. 23. Poverty-based discrimination - Does International Human Rights Law care?

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

    Author : Julia Eriksson; [2019]
    Keywords : public international law; discrimination; equality; poverty; human rights; international human rights law; non-discrimination; substantive equality; socioeconomic status; indirect discrimination; affirmative action; poverty-based discrimination; discrimination grounds; status-based discrimination; suspect grounds; inequality; de facto equality; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : I en värld där inget tycks kunna stoppa de växande ekonomiska klyfterna ifrågasätts även relevansen av internationella regleringar av mänskliga rättigheter. Trots att jämlikhet och icke-diskriminering utgör grunden för mänskliga rättigheter så verkar dessa regelverk oförmögna att adressera ekonomiskt betonad ojämlikhet. READ MORE

  5. 24. Multidimensional Intergenerational Inequality: Resource and Gender Specificity : Intergenerational transmission of inequality in education, social class, and income attainment using a sibling correlations approach

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Max Thaning; [2018]
    Keywords : Socioeconomic background; social background; social origin; education; social class; income; sibling correlations; resource specificity; gender specificity; intergenerational transmission of inequality; multidimensional inequality.;

    Abstract : This study focuses on intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic resources in multiple dimensions and decomposes the influence of parents’ education, social class, and income in relation to the same outcomes for children as well as the unique impact of mothers and fathers on sons and daughters. In order to minimize measurement error in parental characteristics and life course bias for children, high quality Swedish administrative register data (spanning over 40 years) is utilized. READ MORE

  6. 25. Child undernutrition and women’s empowerment in Brazil

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Luciana Benevides Pereira Arlidge; [2018]
    Keywords : Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Child undernutrition is a worldwide problem with dire consequences that compromises the quality of life and economic growth on different scales (individual, household and community). It affects mainly highly vulnerable populations. Maternal characteristics have proven to be key determinants for child nutritional status. READ MORE