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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one …
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people, women, people living in the countryside and in underdeveloped regions. The relatively bad labour market situation of …
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climate variability and change and to identify adaptation options for a watershed in Kenya, which presents a critical water … resource for the city of Nairobi. Participatory approaches have been applied in the development community for years through the …
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Fokus von gesellschaftlichen, politischen und wissenschaftlichen Diskursen. Auch in Kenia und in Nairobi hat die Urbane … agriculture is increasingly becoming the focus of social, political and scientific discourse. Also in Kenya and Nairobi, urban ….B. traditionelle Märkte und moderner Lebensmitteleinzelhandel) bzw. verwandten Aktivitäten (z.B. Community Gardens) in Nairobi. …
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Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development. The evaluation of the causal effects of property rights, however, is a difficult task as their allocation is typically endogenous. To overcome this identification problem, we exploit a natural experiment in the...
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In recent decades, absolute poverty incidence declined in most countries of Southeast Asia, even though in some of these countries inequality increased at the same time. This paper examines the relationship between these outcomes and the rate of economic growth in the agricultural, industrial...
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The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia, which houses 60 per cent of the world's slum dwellers. Donors have been slow to respond to the urban challenge, however, both in their funding patterns and their priorities....
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The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and inequality in cities of the ‘global south’. Specifically it addresses the impact of globalization on marginalized communities—slums, squatter settlements and shantytowns—collectively called ‘informal...
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comparable employment to a parent even after 3 years of absence reduces employer-arranged training for young women. …
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[...] Das vorliegende AMS info stellt die erweiterte Fassung eines Vortrages dar, den Dennis Tamesberger im Rahmen der Tagung "All we NEET is ...? Barrieren & Chancen für Jugendliche in Bildung & Beruf" am 27.5.2015 in Wien gehalten hat. Veranstalter dieser Tagung waren die Caritas Österreich,...
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