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Feeding the future in Ghana: Gender inequality, poverty, and food insecurity
World Medical &Health Policy, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 638-671, December 2023., 2023 Abstract As women's empowerment is critical for the adoption of agricultural technologies by farmers, some governments have over the last three decades adopted a gender equality approach to food security. In Ghana, women play a vital role as farmers and food processors, which means they impact household nutrition in important ways.
Irene S. Egyir +3 more
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Politics &Policy, Volume 51, Issue 5, Page 898-918, October 2023., 2023 Abstract The present study investigates the incidence of financial institutions' dynamics of depth and access in the effect of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 sub‐Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and ...
Simplice Asongu, Nicholas M. Odhiambo
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Relações entre pobreza e bem estar em comunidades rurais do Brasil
Psicología, Conocimiento y Sociedad, 2020 A pobreza é um fenômeno complexo e multidimensional. As relações da pobreza com o bem estar, no geral, estão presentes na incompatibilidade entre esses dois aspectos.
Verônica Morais Ximenes +3 more
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Latin American Policy, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 388-407, September 2023., 2023 Abstract For years Colombia has been the world's largest coca producer. Its public management of crops for illicit use has swung between eradication, substitution, and, recently legalization. Forced eradication has been shown to be ineffective, and legalization is an incipient option, so the Peace Agreement puts forward substitution as the path to ...
Mª Josep Cascant‐Sempere +2 more
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Poverty‐happiness nexus: Does the use of regional poverty lines matter?
Papers in Regional Science, Volume 102, Issue 2, Page 253-272, April 2023., 2023 Abstract This analysis aims to provide a comprehensive representation of the role of regional disparities in the nexus between poverty and subjective well‐being, by adding the territorial dimension to the definition of poverty conditions. We investigate the nexus using regional poverty lines, including different poverty measures and considering ...
Cristina Bernini +2 more
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Pobreza multidimensional femenina brasileña en 2015
Apuntes: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2022 Estudios desarrollados por las ciencias sociales vienen dedicándose al análisis del proceso de feminización de la pobreza explorando condicionantes de las diferentes fuentes de privación a las cuales las mujeres sonsometidas. Esta investigación pretende analizar la pobreza multidimensional femenina en el Brasil en 2015 calculando este nivel de pobreza ...
Batista, Ravena de Carvalho Reis +1 more
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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana: A micro‐level analysis
Poverty &Public Policy, Volume 13, Issue 4, Page 316-334, December 2021., 2021 Abstract The financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub‐Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financial intermediaries in addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions.
Michael Danquah +4 more
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How to become innovative: The trajectory of social assistance programs in Brazil
Latin American Policy, Volume 12, Issue 1, Page 97-115, May 2021., 2021 Abstract This article proposes a theoretical framework to analyze conditional cash transfer programs, as the result of a process of social policy innovation in Brazil. The analysis reveals a traceable process of innovation behind the creation of two of these programs, Bolsa Família and Bolsa Verde.
Helder Ferreira do Vale
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Medición multidimensional de la pobreza: una propuesta exploratoria para Costa Rica
Revista Estudios de Políticas Públicas, 2016 Este estudio de caso se desarrolló con el objetivo general de elaborar una propuesta exploratoria para la medición multidimensional de la pobreza, contribuyendo con ello a la reflexión de la sociedad entorno a la definición de mecanismos que permitan ...
Mario Artavia
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Análise da pobreza multidimensional no Brasil nos anos de 2002 e 2014
Economia & Região, 2021 Em contraste com a abordagem unidimensional, por meio do presente estudo propõe-se uma análise da pobreza baseada em um conjunto de variáveis selecionadas para representar as capacitações básicas que, se não forem satisfeitas, implicam em privações ...
Otávio Junio Faria Neves +2 more
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