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Combining Data, Enhancing Explanation
Irwin, Sarah - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper the author analyzes the pros and cons of combining data from different sources to revisit some explanatory problems. The problems discussed have risen from a theoretical and analytic gap between people’s outlooks and values on the one hand, and their social circumstances on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512446
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Chronic Poverty and Development Policy in Sri Lanka: Overview Study
Tudawe, Indra - eSocialSciences - 2009
The present study attempts to capture chronic poverty in Sri Lanka by examining general information on poverty and drawing conclusions on those who are likely to be among the chronic poor. Certain population groups that are likely to experience poverty over many years (or all their lives) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042052
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Climate Change and Migration in Southeast Asia: Responding to a New Human Security Challenge
Elliot, Lorraine - eSocialSciences - 2012
The paper aims at understanding the reasons which influence migration and mobility choices, ways by which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650334
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Living Rough: Surviving City Streets
Mander, Harsh - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, boys and girls in four cities: the metropolises of Delhi and Chennai, and the cities of Madurai...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945450
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Migration and Chronic Poverty
Kothari, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2009
relationship between chronic, or long-term, poverty and processes of migration. The paper presents a framework to enable an … stay, the processes by which they are compelled or excluded from adopting migration as a livelihood strategy and the … circumstances under which migration sustains chronic poverty or presents an opportunity to move out of poverty [WP No. 16]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995034