(1995). In what sense is poverty multidimensional? In. Room, G. (ed.) Beyond the threshold. The Measurement and Analysis of Social Exclusion. Bristol: policy Press, 29-48Whelan, B. and Whelan, C. 1995. In what sense is poverty multidimensional? In G. Room (ed), Beyond the Threshold...
There is no consensus on what makes for a livable urban environment. This requires empirical assessment of the relationship between urban characteristics a
Financial capability is a multidimensional concept incorporating many behavioural facets related to how individuals handle their resources and make financial decisions. According to Sherraden (2013), financial capability is a concept that bridges economics, psychology, and sociology, combining a person’s ...
The status of faculty working in universities is respected, close to civil servants who are regarded as engaging noble professions. In China, people are educated to be economically successful, responsible, and ethically upright citizens in the interest of the state and the common people (Duperon,...
Fig. 1. Energy poverty research overview. The four main drivers of energy poverty (left box) are embedded in the definitions (right box) in various ways and to varying degrees, explicitly or implicitly. The most commonly used “subjective” or consensual indicator is whether a household says ...
How recent findings in medicine, psychiatry, and sociology bring us closer than ever to unraveling mankind's greatest mystery: What happens to us after we die? Startling, newly confirmed phenomena such as: The experience of meeting one's loved ones in the afterlife and the ability to "tap...
Lustig, Nora (2011): "Multidimensional indices of achievements and poverty: What do we gain and what do we lose? An introduction to the JOEI Forum on multidimensional poverty", Journal of Economic Inequality 9 (2): 227-234.Nora Lustig, 2011. " Multidimensional indices...
poverty decompositionsrural ChinaThis paper provides a monitoring on the reduction of multidimensional poverty in rural China from 2010 to 2016. The results indicate that significant overall alleviation is observed in the rural China. After decomposing poverty reduction through Shapley method, dimensional ...
Despite the significant attention that financial capability has received in the last 20 years, many of its aspects are poorly understood, and the term itself is ambiguously defined. Consequently, different measures of financial capability are used in empirical research creating a tendency to let the ...
(1980) development is “a multi-dimensional process involving changes in structures, attitudes and institutions as well as the acceleration of economic growth, the reduction of inequality and eradication of absolute poverty”. Development is therefore a future-oriented process of transformation from a ...