Sökning: "urban poverty"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 67 avhandlingar innehållade orden urban poverty.
21. Poverty and conflict in Southeast Asia
Sammanfattning : This is a collection of papers on three Southeast Asian countries, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Thailand. All four studies rely on household survey data for analyzing topics related to poverty and conflicts. Trust and Conflict in Southern ThailandThe insurgency in Thailand’s southern border provinces has caused thousands of casualties since 2004. LÄS MER
22. Millennium Development Goals in Nicaragua : Analysing progress, social inequalities, and community actions
Sammanfattning : The world has made important efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015. However, it is still insufficient and inequalities prevail in the poorest settings. LÄS MER
23. Essays on Growth, Political Economy and Development
Sammanfattning : This thesis has three self-contained articles.Economic growth and trade in human capital: A salient empirical pattern in the East Asian “miracle” is a large increase in output and factor accumulation despite only a modest increase in TFP. I develop and calibrate a model of growth and catch-up to provide a possible explanation. LÄS MER
24. Essays on Environmental and Behavioral Economics
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25. Planting to feed the city? : Agricultural production, food security and multi-spatial livelihoods among urban households in Ghana
Sammanfattning : The 2010 population and housing census in Ghana revealed that more than half of the Ghanaian population lived in urban centers. Critical to the phenomenon of urbanization is the question of how to sustainably feed the urban population especially the urban poor as rapid urbanization has the tendency to urbanize poverty. LÄS MER