Digital transformation and sustainability of entrepreneurship for the undeserved communities In East Africa / Nathan Mwenda, Carolyne Kimutai -- Analysis of challenges and opportunities faced by youth entrepreneurs during COVID-19 in South Africa / Luyanda Ngcongo, Andrisha Ramraj -- Post COVID...

"Work Requirements reframes the history of work-based social welfare practice as a representational project tasked with shoring up the inherent meaningfulness of work, examining what Todd Carmody calls the "print culture of social welfare" to show how work became an indicator of social...

How science and spirituality can lead the way to global healing / Robyn Anders -- Impact of Covid 19 on economy and society in India / Chitra Krishnan, Gurinder Singh -- A look at the early lessons from Covid-19 pandemic : groundwork for immediate action and future pandemics / Randy Tudy,...

Introduction - discrimination, vulnerable consumers and financial inclusion (Stănescu & Gikay) -- Tackling issues in consumer credit : the role of human rights (Ondersma) -- Beyond negative interpretations of freedom of contract : the interplay between private law and human rights in light of...

About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures &amp -- Maps -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction - Conceptualizing begging and methodological underpinnings -- Historical background -- Conceptualising begging -- Research methods and theoretical framework --...

Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically...

In the last decades, inequality of opportunity has been extensively studied by economists on the assumption that, in addition to being normatively undesirable, it can be related to low potential for growth. This paper evaluates inequality of opportunity and the different sources of unequal...

The broad-basing process in India: an introduction / M.V. Nadkarni -- The broad-basing process and Dalits / M.V. Nadkarni -- Whither Dalit movement in Karnataka? Its achievements and challenges / Manohar Yadav -- The broad-basing process and the backward classes / V. Anil Kumar -- The...

In the last decades inequality of opportunity has been extensively studied by economists, on the assumption that, in addition to being normatively undesirable, it can be related to low potential for growth. In this paper we evaluate inequality of opportunity in 11 Sub-Saharan Africa countries....

In the last decades, inequality of opportunity has been extensively studied by economists on the assumption that, in addition to being normatively undesirable, it can be related to low potential for growth. This paper evaluates inequality of opportunity and the different sources of unequal...

Informal settlements are an integral part of the urban landscape in developing countries. These settlements are widely distributed within cities, including central business centers and peripheral areas with environment hazards. In most cases, residents of these settlements do not have access to...

"Challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation or genetics. It offers its own new analysis, based on an entirely different approach--and backed up with empirical evidence from around the world. The point is not to recommend...

We use administrative data to examine medium and long-term formal education and labor market impacts among participants and family members of a randomized vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Colombia. In the Colombian program, vocational training and formal education are...

Bosses and managers from atypical backgrounds have succeeded in avoiding socially pre-determined outcomes byturning their differences into resources. This did not, however, mean that theybecame "normal". They are leaders, but they remain excluded from convened socialpositions. This distance...

Being different is widely recognised as a social handicap and a source of stigmatisation. This book shows, through sixty interviews of atypical leaders, that difference can also be a strength. It tells the stories of people who were able to turn their destinies around.

In this paper we will briefly review recent trends in employment outcomes for disadvantaged youth, focusing specifically on those who have become "disconnected" from school and the labor market, and why these trends have occurred. We then review a range of policy prescriptions that might improve...

We examine the effect of peer achievement on students' own achievement and teacher performance in primary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods using data from a well-executed randomized experiment in seven states. Contrary to the existing literature, we find that the average classroom peer...

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and The National Educational...

Informal settlements are an integral part of the urban landscape in developing countries. These settlements are widely distributed within cities, including central business centers and peripheral areas with environment hazards. In most cases, residents of these settlements do not have access to...

We examine the effect of peer achievement on students' own achievement and teacher performance in primary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods using data from a well-executed randomized experiment in seven states. Contrary to the existing literature, we find that the average classroom peer...

Reaching and teaching marginalized children -- Conceptual framework: marginalized children and their teachers -- Setting the study context: India, Mexico, and Tanzania -- Demand-size explanations for inequitable teacher distribution -- Supply-size explanations for inequitable teacher...

This contribution to Political Anthropology, Migration Research, and Postcolonial Studies fills a gap in the hitherto under-represented scholarship on the settler society of the Andaman Islands, called Mini-India. The main actors of the book are migrants from criminalised, low-class, low-caste,...