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Mapping Poverty in Agar Town: Economic Conditions Prior to the Development of St. Pancras Station In 1866
Swensen, Steven P. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
Poverty.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870937
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A Profile of Poverty in Tajikistan
Falkingham, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remoteand poorest of the independent states of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733211
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Time and income poverty
Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
[...]The research on which this report is based used both qualitative and quantitativemethods. In the first phase, a small number of semi-structured interviews were carriedout with people who were juggling work and family responsibilities, and who feltunder both time and income pressure. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008785041
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Aiming High – An evaluation of the potential contribution of Warm Front towards meeting the Government’s fuel poverty target in England
Sefton, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
Following the implementation of the government’s fuel poverty strategy in 2001, Warm Front is expected to make a …’s target of eliminating fuel poverty among vulnerable households by 2010, based largely on the recommendations in a recent … and fuel poverty.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836945
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Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China
Li, Bingqin; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable andnoted feature of Chinese society. The paper … socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is … approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty andinequality are considered.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354041
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Identifying Vulnerable Groups in the Kyrgyz LabourMarket: Some Implications for the National PovertyReduction Strategy
Bernabè, Sabine; Kolev, Alexandre - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
poverty and social exclusion in the labourmarket. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precariousworkers …. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty MonitoringSurvey, which is the only survey to date that allows a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354057
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An Anatomy of EconomicInequality in the UK
Hills, John; Brewer, Mike; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Lister, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
[...]The work of the National Equality Panel will underpin the response by all strategic publicauthorities to Clause One of the Equality Bill which places a new legal duty on key publicbodies to consider, in all the important decisions they make and all important actions theytake, how they can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008785038
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Continuity and Change in Pathways to Young AdultDisadvantage: Results from a British Birth Cohort
Hobcraft, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
This paper focuses on pathways to adult disadvantage (or social exclusion) up toage 33 for a cohort of children born in Great Britain in March 1958. A sequenceof interrelated analyses that build up a life-course account of the pathwaysinvolved in the origins of adult social exclusion are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354062
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An Economic Model of Household Income Dynamics,with an Application to Poverty Dynamics amongAmerican Women
Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
The rise in inequality and poverty is one of the most important economicand social issues in recent times. But in …, income and poverty dynamics.We illustrate this framework with an application to poverty rates amongyoung women in the US. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756563
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Nutrition and Economic Destitution in Northern Ghana, 1930-1957. A Historical Perspective on Nutritional Economics
Destombes, Jerôme - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870780