Globally, be they single, mothers or seniors, women consistently comprise the majority of those who are in poverty. The historical overrepresentation of women in the pool of poverty suggests that there is a feminization of poverty. Societal laws about asset ownership, defects in the labor market...
Focussing on the psychosocial dimensions of poverty, the contention that shame lies at the 'irreducible absolutist core' of the idea of poverty is examined through qualitative research with adults and children experiencing poverty in diverse settings in seven countries: rural Uganda and India; urban ...
Impact Assessment of Climate Change on Poverty Reduction: A Global PerspectiveClimate change and its impacts are the biggest environmental problems that the world is facing in recent decades. Climate-sensitive events have already been critical obstacles of poverty reduction and sustainable economic ...
Energy poverty policies in the EU: a critical perspective Energy Policy, 49 (2012), pp. 76-82 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar [58] S. Royston, P. Guertler Fact-file: families and fuel poverty London Association for the Conservation of Energy (2013) Google Scholar [59] N...
Topics: digital economy, poverty reduction, development financing, climate change and green development, interconnection, culture and other fields.,China's Perspective on Global Development Initiative,Tsinghua University
This has direct consequences on consumption patterns and consumption-based carbon footprints, resulting in carbon inequality. Due to persistent inequality, millions of people still live in poverty today. On the basis of global expenditure data, we compute country- and expenditure-specific per capita ...
The concept of poverty is understood differently by people across the globe. Despite this conceptual limitation, higher economic growth in the last few decades in many countries has helped reduce extreme global poverty. The growth process has been supported by globalization. The number of global ...
The crisis of 2000s was shorter than the 1980s, so that people and governments could draw on their savings to protect their livelihoods, but if the global recession recurs, the poverty consequences could become much worse. The need for short-term indicators of poverty remains urgent, if we ...
Koh King Kee, president of the Center for New Inclusive Asia of Malaysia, offered a critical perspective on the post-World War II global governance system, which he argued was established and dominated by the West to safeguard its own interests. Koh said nations have been compelled to align ...
Global Perspective As we interact more and more with people from other countries, it is becoming increasingly important to have global perspective. This isn’t something US citizens are particularly good at. If you watch the news, you are more likely to see a story on Britney Spears’ dog ...