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Fiscal determinants of empowerment [PDF]

Empowerment of local governments and citizens is a primary object of decentralization. Using the analytic lens of empowerment, the author explores the nature of decentralized governance and how this type of structure is likely to be more or less ...
Raich, Uri
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COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT IN SOUTH KOREA: TOWARDS DEVELOPING A LOCAL MODEL FOR PRACTICE [PDF]

, 2011
This study aims to explore community empowerment practice (CEP) in South Korea (SK) and develop a Korean model of CEP. To begin, I describe key contexts of Korean society such as political, economical and cultural backgrounds alongside the history of ...
YANG, MAN-JAE
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Microfinance, Political Factors, and Motivation Can All Help to Enhance Women’s Entrepreneurship and Empowerment to Eliminate Poverty in Sindh Pakistan

SAGE Open
Sustainable development of women’s entrepreneurship (WE) and women empowerment (WEMP), and poverty reduction (PR), are significant challenges, particularly in developing countries like Pakistan.
Saifullah, Zhiqiang Ma, Mingxing Li, Muhammad Qasim Maqbool   +3 more
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Women economic empowerment leads towards social innovation in rural setting of Saudi Arabia

Cogent Economics & Finance
This study examines the relationship between women’s economic empowerment and social innovation, focusing on various dimensions of empowerment, including family decision-making, freedom of mobility, political participation, progressive attitudes, and ...
Sura Alayed, Sultan Alateeg
doaj   +1 more source

Relationships, resources, and political empowerment: community violence intervention strategies that contest the logics of policing and incarceration. [PDF]

Front Public Health, 2023
Dawson MK, Ivey A, Buggs S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
wiley   +1 more source

“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists

Ecology and Society
Despite pastoralists’ contributions to local food systems in arid and semi-arid regions of the world, resource constraints, conflict, and climate emergencies are threatening pastoralists’ abilities to thrive.
Elizabeth L Fox, Adan Kabelo, Georgia J Michlig, Fatuma Abdi, Irène Tombo, Abigail Reich, Abdullahi Shukri, Haley J Swartz, Jessica Fanzo   +8 more
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“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
wiley   +1 more source

Political empowerment among young voters: Social media, partisanship and the moderating role of political interest

, 2023
Despite recent efforts to examine the political outcomes of social media use, little is known about the reinforcement of political empowerment and moderating effect of political interest. It is vital to understand the elements that influence the level of
Zeib, Fakhta, Tariq, Rehan
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International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
wiley   +1 more source