R Rena - 《Social Science Electronic Publishing》 被引量: 0发表: 2011年 considering re1igion and tradition in c1imate smart agricu1ture insights from namibia Religious faith has proved a hindrance to the embrace of scientific climate forecasts. In Namibia, seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs) are ...
An early exponent of this type of argument was R H. Tawney who saw poverty as an aspect of social inequality. For Tawney, social inequality led to extremes of both wealth and poverty and both were dehumanizing. Extreme poverty limited life to mere subsistence, while extreme wealth led to pam...
Today there is only one hump as global prosperity has generally improved and incomes have increased.5 But not in sub-Saharan Africa, where, in comparison with the rest of the world, the camel still has two humps. Globally the pre-2007/2008 period of globalisation appears to have seen a ...
that a view of poverty in which the achievement of a satisfactory level of income is seen as a valuable end in itself, and which is captured in something like Kaushik Basu’s ‘quintile income statistic’, suggests a high order of income-poverty in the country which belies the relatively en...
Por ello, el Gobierno de Namibia ha emprendido un amplio programa de reducción de la pobreza para luchar contra ese tipo de problemas. UN-2 The initiative took charge of development with a focus on poverty reduction. La iniciativa asumía la tarea del desarrollo prestando especial atenci...
Another issue pertains understanding the evolutions in energy poverty, with many studies placing more attention to energy efficiency, energy prices and income as key determinants of energy poverty (Hills, 2012; [[52],[41]]). Social and cultural factors like ethnic differences and trust have been...
The main objective of this study is to examine the role of governance as a moderator of the FDI effect on poverty. Our analyses support a positive significant impact of FDI on poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America but a negative effect in Eastern Europe, while it is not...
Namibia’s Etosha National Park, etc.). As such, our test of possible effectiveness combines information on how much site level covariates could be improved and the sensitivity of poaching rates to each covariate. The imposed changes represent plausible conservation targets as at least one country,...
Fig. 1. HEA income and expenditure data by wealth group for the Northern Border Upland Cereal and Livestock Zone, Namibia for the reference year March 2006–February 2007. (a) Income as food energy consumed and the proportion of the population in each wealth group. (b) Income in cash. (...
impactsoftourismonthepoor.RecentresearchinIndia, Indonesia,Namibia,Nepal,thePhilippines,Uganda,Zambia andZimbabwehelpstoshedlightontheissuesinvolved. Cantourismreallybepro-poor? Tourismisacomplexindustrydrivenbytheprivatesector, andoftenbylargeinternationalcompanies.Governments ...