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Sloane, Heather M. "Poverty and the Art of Medicine: Barriers to Empathy in Medical Education." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435186180.
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Lee, Adam Norman, and adam@adamlee com au. "Social and cultural realities." RMIT University. Art, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070109.144637.
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This project involves the visual exploration of different social, cultural and spiritual experiences in both the Third World and the West, as a metaphor for the human condition. It draws upon the experiences of people living in various situations of poverty and hardship in both Western and Thirld World communities. Through this research program I have created a series of visual works, which explore and questions many of the different social, cultural and spiritual characteristics of groups of people experiencing situations of extreme poverty, neglect and hardship within both Western and Thrid World societies. The main research for this roject has involved creating crucial links between my art practice and my ongoing involvement in humanitarian/aid programs in Andhra Pradesh, India, working with people in impoverished Third World conditions, and social welfare work in the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. By drawing on these two specific areas, this resear ch project explores the theme of poverty as a valid subject for the visual artist in establishing a broader metaphor for the human condition in the 21st century. This has involved testing new insights in this area in relation to contemporary fine art, the relationship between poverty and contemporary visual art and the investigation of the artist as a documenter of real life experiences in situations both inside and outside of the typical Western experience of living.
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Manternach, Brad Andrew. "Content within the community: a look at content driven community-based art practices and the results of an after school art program." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3344.
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The purpose of this research was to study the ways in which a content driven after-school art program focused on community-based art projects inspires high school students to create work that are personal and purposeful. This study involved members of the Hempstead High School Art Club. I collected data in various ways including focus groups video recording, journal reflections, and observations with Art club members who meet monthly to discuss the project and biweekly to work on the project. My plan was to gather information on the effectiveness of a content driven after school art club in the teaching and learning of visual art. Through my research I hoped to discover the benefits and drawbacks of an after school art program as compared to a regular art classroom setting and the implementation of content driven art projects. Finally, I hoped to study and analyze the effects such a program would have on a student's understanding of the purpose of creating community-based art.
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Watt, Patricia. "Art therapy and poverty : a study of the alignment of practices and therapeutic goals of art therapists working in contexts of multiple deprivation in Scotland." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2016. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7729.
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Background: The impact that poverty can have on children and young people (CYP) is pervasive and can affect their emotional wellbeing, educational attainment, future life chances and can put pressure on family relationships. It is known that the impact of poverty can also create a number of barriers to CYP and families accessing services that aim to promote their well-being. Furthermore, structural factors such as current welfare cuts and austerity measures on public services mean that professionals working with people affected by poverty will have to ‘do more with less’. Practitioners could fail to acknowledge this if they have little experience of poverty through their professional discourses and training. This could reinforce barriers, create a social distance between service-users and practitioners and a misalignment of assessment of priorities which could lead to inappropriate interventions being offered. Aims: This study gathered the views of 10 Art Therapists working in areas of multiple deprivation with the aim of examining their perspectives and experiences of poverty and how it is explored – if at all - within their professional practice. Also examined is the impact that working in a context of multiple deprivation has – if any – upon (i) what constitutes ‘therapy’ and (ii) the practices of the art therapist. Methodology: The inclusion criteria for participants was that they were qualified art therapists working with CYP in West Central Scotland (WCS) in an area of Multiple Deprivation (MD) as determined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD). The principle data collection method consisted of semi-structured interviews, and supplementary contextualising data was gathered via fieldwork in order to make observations of the context, settings and localities where participants worked. Reflexivity was also used to process personal and professional feelings regarding the data gleaned from interviews and fieldwork. The data was analysed using thematic analysis that took a general inductive approach to generating themes. This was then triangulated with the other data gathered to enhance the validity of emergent themes. Methodology: The inclusion criteria for participants was that they were qualified art therapists working with CYP in West Central Scotland (WCS) in an area of Multiple Deprivation (MD) as determined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD). The principle data collection method consisted of semi-structured interviews, and supplementary contextualising data was gathered via fieldwork in order to make observations of the context, settings and localities where participants worked. Reflexivity was also used to process personal and professional feelings regarding the data gleaned from interviews and fieldwork. The data was analysed using thematic analysis that took a general inductive approach to generating themes. This was then triangulated with the other data gathered to enhance the validity of emergent themes.
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Deakins, Lahla K. "Women, Art, and Community: A Proposal for a Non-Profit Pottery Program in Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1997.
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Many Appalachian women are creative individuals who enjoy making and sharing quilts, songs, paintings, poetry, and other art. However, many women in rural areas of Central Appalachia lack access to basic resources because of poverty.
While many agencies help poor women find shelter, clothing, and food, there are few that help them find their creative voices. I assert that women who are given the tools to practice creative expression can overcome the mental oppression of poverty to become self-assured individuals who benefit their communities.
This thesis examines the socioeconomic condition of women in Central Appalachia and the positive impacts of pottery in the lives of women potters in the United States to make the case for a non-profit pottery program in Appalachia. The research covers the time period from the early 1900s to 2008 and employs scholarly journal articles, books, Web sites, and interviews to support the thesis.
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Brill, Anna. "Wilde and Wonderful: The Ultimate Aesthete's Redefinition of Individualism, as an Idealist, and then as an Outcast." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/506.
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Oscar Wilde redefined the relationship between Life and Art, and attempted to live in the style of the characters in his works: pursuing Beauty. His view of Life as imitating Art played a crucial role in his definition of Individualism. In his works, he explored how one develops one's personality and Individuality, and society's role in suppressing the Individual. He firmly believed that Life and ugliness were inextricably intertwined, and that society's moral structure was to blame. Popular in his time as an artist, he made it a point in his writing and in his work to stand apart from society. Ultimately, society cast him out; while in prison, he experienced an aspect of Life that he had been avoiding his entire life as an aesthete, and thus altered and expanded his ideal of the Individual. In falling from grace and in being forced to live in the ugliest of realities, he developed a fuller idea of what it means to live beautifully.
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Leandre, Fernet Renand. "Estimating Effects of Poverty on the Survival of HIV Patients on ART and Food Supplementation in Rural Haiti: A Comparative Evaluation of Socio-Economic Indicators." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13041360.
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Background: Because economic conditions are both a risk factor for disease and may themselves be objectives for health delivery interventions, monitoring changes in economic outcomes has become a routine priority for health and development efforts. However, the lack of formal commerce in poor agrarian communities creates challenges for measuring economic status. Data on household finances, such as income, are ideal but are time-consuming, costly, and less reliable, whereas proxy measures of wealth such as indices of durable assets are easier to measure but relatively coarse and are less sensitive to rapid changes in underlying drivers.
Methods: We used data from a cohort of 528 people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) enrolled in a food intervention study on household demographics, agricultural production, cash income, in-kind income, household durable assets and health status, including CD4 count. We created a household economic index using principal components analysis (PCA) and compared it with three other economic indicators generated from the data (income, expenditures, poverty score). Through multivariate logistic regression analysis we evaluated the effect of the economic metric on probability of survival within the first year of study.
Results: Socioeconomic status determined by PCA of durable assets, weighted by the square root of the household size, was the only consistently significant economic predictor of probability of death. It remained significant even after controlling for direct health indicators such as CD4 count. There was no significant correlation between CD4 count and the economic indicators, which may be attributable to uniform access to ART among study participants.
Conclusion: Among people who have HIV and are all enrolled in ART and food programs, household socioeconomic status is an important predictor of mortality rates, even after controlling for direct health measurements such as CD4 count and other health-related covariates. The SES indicator from PCA is also a simple metric to estimate. The study underscores that poverty is a social determinant of mortality even in the context of equal access to health services, and is suggestive of the importance of poverty alleviation activities as an important supplement to clinical interventions.
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Arney, Lance A. "Political Pedagogy and Art Education With Youth in a Street Situation in Salvador, Brazil: An Ethnographic Evaluation of the Street Education Program of Projeto Axé." Scholar Commons, 2007. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/608.
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Projeto Axé is a non-governmental organization that carries out political-pedagogical work and art education for children and adolescents living in a street situation in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. I conducted an exploratory ethnographic study with Projeto Axé's Street Education program in order to observe its day-to-day activities and to conduct a utilization-focused program evaluation (Patton 1997) of its pedagogical praxis. This thesis will describe how ethnographic fieldwork methods are interwoven with the political-pedagogical approaches of Projeto Axé's Street Education program and explain how street educators attempt to construct citizenship with participants in the Street Education program. Findings are based on an analysis of data collected during three months of fieldwork, during which I observed the day-to-day activities of the Street Education program and formally interviewed seven street educators.
Projeto Axé's street educators employ ethnographic fieldwork methods in order to more holistically understand the everyday lives of street youth, as well as the dynamics of "street culture" that emerge in the particular urban spaces frequented by street youth. The result is an anthropological understanding that serves as the foundation for street education activities, through which street youth are provoked to think critically about their everyday reality in order to transform it (Freire 1970). The construction of citizenship through Street Education is based on the "pedagogy of desire" (Carvalho 2000), a psychological-sociocultural theory of learning developed by the organization specifically for working with youth living in a street situation. Street education and the construction of citizenship begin and happen with the desire of street youth. The content of street education is not fixed or predetermined, but emerges out of a particular street youth's desires, needs, and dialogues with street educators.
I conclude that, combined with Freireian-inspired political pedagogy and the pedagogy of desire, the use of ethnographic fieldwork methods by street educators is crucial for Projeto Axé's attempts at realizing radical transformations in the lives of street youth. Furthermore, Projeto Axé's anthropological approaches to the social and political inclusion of street youth increase the adaptability of its street pedagogy to the local socio-cultural realities emergent in other urban spaces.
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Uelk, Katie Owens. "Arts-Based Pedagogies and the Literacy of Adolescent Students in High-Risk and High-Poverty Communities." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555430793261226.
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Stine, Alison. "Rust Belt Blues." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1365151197.
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Rooney, Matthew Peter. "Investigating Alternative Subsistence Strategies among the Homeless Near Tampa, Florida." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6137.
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Modern homelessness is one of the most pressing social and political problems of our time. Several hundred thousand people experience homelessness in the United States each year, and the U.S. Department of Housing, which attempts to count those people, has admitted that their statistics are conservative estimates at best. A recent archaeological study (Zimmerman et al 2010) examining material culture associated with homeless communities in Indianapolis has suggested that those who are considered chronically homeless have generally abandoned wage labor and are instead pursuing urban foraging as a subsistence strategy. In order to better understand the structures of homeless communities, I have expanded this archaeological and ethnographic form of inquiry and used it to present evidence of material culture and foraging patterns among the urban homeless near Tampa. I used participant mapping to obtain 20 individual maps that show each informant’s catchment area, and I performed surface survey of material culture found at camp sites in a four-square-mile area. I found that individuals tend to make homes wherever they are and that much of the material culture reflects what could realistically be expected in any house or apartment. I also found that individuals utilize many resources across the landscape to obtain food, water, clothing, and shelter but must simultaneously remain invisible. This shows that homeless individuals are economic outcasts who must survive outside of yet are still quite dependent on society. Ultimately, this research shows how anthropology can be used to advance a scientific understanding of a specific set of economic processes and how these affect people.
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Liu, An. "Read-In Arts." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4878.
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As interior designers, we strive to design everything for our clients, from complex environments to the joinery of a chair. We rarely consider inviting our clients or the users to join us in finishing the space.
Read-In workshop is not a school, but a kind of home, a home belonging to children, which provides the possibilities for children to play, to learn, to occupy, to personalize, and to share. An emotional space that will not limit the user, but keep inspiring them. It helps children notice, think, and grow.
Half of the interior space will be a fixed design, designed and fabricated during the first construction phase. The other Half will be designed as a flexible and changeable “framework” space, which allow the users to reorganize, repaint, and refinish, depending on their evolving educational needs and aesthetic tastes. Therefore, this “incomplete” workshop will share control with children. The contents of the framework will be continuously updated by the children who participate in the Read-In arts programs.
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Lissade, Yolette. "The Effect of an Arts-Based, Anger-Management Intervention for Girls Displaying Aggressive Behavior Who Are Being Reared Without Their Fathers." Thesis, NSUWorks, 2015. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/fse_etd/25.
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This arts-based intervention program was designed to reduce anxiety and aggressive behavior in adolescent girls who were being reared without their fathers during the period of 2010–2015. The research questions were designed to investigate the scope, frequency, and severity of the problem of increased aggressive behavior and anxiety by girls being reared without their fathers; to evaluate the effectiveness of an arts-based intervention in reducing aggressive behavior and anxiety in girls being reared without their fathers; to investigate the ways that the use of an arts-based intervention might improve feelings about family relationships for single mothers and girls being reared without their fathers; and to gather observations and perceptions of all participants of the arts-based intervention regarding its impact on aggressive girls being reared without their fathers.
Eight children between the ages of 8 and 17 completed the study. Data collection consisted of administering the following surveys: the Adolescent Anger Rating Scale, the Children’s Aggression Scale, the Parent Adolescent Relationship Questionnaire, and a confirmation interview with parents. An anger-management intervention utilizing the arts as an outlet for self-expression was implemented during the winter 2013 semester.
Results showed the implementation fostered peer collaboration and resulted in reduced anger and aggression as well as increased communication and family cohesion. Expression through the arts, coupled with anger-management training, enabled girls to cope with their anger rather than acting out.
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Rose, Harriett DeAnn. "Dallas, Poverty, and Race: Community Action Programs in the War on Poverty." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9042/.
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Dallas is a unique city whose history has been overshadowed by its elite. The War on Poverty in Dallas, Texas, has been largely overlooked in the historical collective. This thesis examines the War on Poverty, more specifically, Community Action Programs (Dallas County Community Action Committee) and its origin and decline. It also exams race within the federal program and the push for federal funding among the African American and Mexican American communities. The thesis concludes with findings of the politicization of the Mexican American community and the struggle with African Americans for political equality.
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Ker, Dorian. "Twelve perspectives on Arte Povera." Thesis, University of Essex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242260.
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Oschinski, Matthias. "Assessing the effects of openness on poverty - are the critics right?" Berlin Logos-Verl, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2820876&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Bergman, Linnea. "Progress or Regression? How Poverty and Development are Portrayed in Advertising." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22316.
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The aim of this paper is to show how organizations portray the developing world and development support in advertisements and how it relates to the criticism existing against development support. What messages are sent to the reader? Do the advertisements contradict the existing criticism against development support or do they reinforce stereotypes and prejudices?Four organizations are analyzed: the Red Cross; Save the Children; PLAN Sweden; and We Effect. The main focus is on their campaigns and outreaching work connected to these campaigns. The analysis is based on a qualitative discourse analysis of the material complemented by a semiotic approach.The developing world is presented as old-fashioned and out obsolete. The problems existing there are simplified and insufficient solutions are offered. Children are commonly occurring and often presented as the main receivers of the support even though the support is available for all ages. Women are over-represented, while men are rarely occurring. However, men are indirect portrayed as the perpetrators and thus the notion of men is present, presenting them as dangerous and irresponsible. The women on the other hand are associated with traditional work e.g. cleaning and sewing as well as caring about the family. Despite that the organizations work all over the world the pictures mainly show black women and children. Overall the developing world is depicted as dependent on others to reach positive development. Difference is accentuated, which could increase prejudices and stereotypes. It is mainly rural environment that is portrayed, which could be seen as depicting the development world as old-fashion and timeless. Positive images of Sweden are used while negative images of other places creating a huge gap between the readers and the people and places presented.
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Poirier, Sherry. "How 'inclusive' are the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategies? an analysis of Tanzania and Uganda's health sectors /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2711.
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Assadzadeh, Ahmad. "Income distribution and poverty in Iran /." [Campbelltown, N.S.W. : The Author], 1997. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030723.134850/index.html.
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Albertan-Coppola, Marianne. "Être pauvre au siècle des Lumières : représentations de la pauvreté dans la fiction romanesque du XVIIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 10, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA100109.
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Alors que la pauvreté a engendré moult débats et publications au XVIIIe siècle, les pauvres sont restés les oubliés de l'Histoire jusqu'aux travaux de J.-P. Gutton, D. Roche, A. Farge à la fin du XXe. Dans le domaine littéraire, elle n'a pas suscité beaucoup d'études, contrairement à son pendant, la richesse. Pourtant, le personnage du pauvre connaît un véritable essor au siècle des Lumières, au théâtre et surtout dans le roman. À parcourir les centaines de romans qui font une place à la pauvreté, une première constatation s'impose. Si le picaro reste au tournant du siècle une figure importante et le restera en pointillé tout au long du siècle, il fait place progressivement à des représentations plus nuancées jusqu'à susciter à la fin une forme de fascination. Comment est-on passé de la vision stéréotypée de la pauvreté qui prévalait au XVIIe siècle à la valorisation du misérable, voire du sordide qui s'opère à la fin du XVIIIe ? Pareil changement n’est pas le fruit d’une rupture brutale mais d’une lente évolution : un mouvement semble se dessiner, qui part des romans-mémoires du début du siècle dont les auteurs accordent une place accrue à l’argent et portent un regard singulier sur les indigents, se développe au milieu du siècle à travers des figures ancrées dans la réalité sociale de leur temps, tels le Neveu de Rameau ou Margot la Ravaudeuse, pour aboutir à cette image crue des miséreux offerte par un Rétif ou un Mercier, qui triomphe en fin de siècleWhile poverty generated many debates and publications in the 18th century, the poor remained forgotten in History until the works of J.-P. Gutton, D. Roche, A. Farge at the end of the 20th century. In the literary field, it has not given rise to many studies, unlike its counterpart, wealth. However, the character of the poor experienced a real boom in the Age of Enlightenment, in the theater and especially in the novel. Looking through the hundreds of novels that make room for poverty, a first observation is essential. If the picaro remains an important figure at the turn of the century and will remain dotted throughout the century, it gradually gives way to more nuanced representations until at the end creating a form of fascination. How did we go from the stereotypical vision of poverty that prevailed in the 17th century to the valuation of the miserable, even the sordid, which took place at the end of the 18th? Such a change is not the result of a sudden rupture but of a slow evolution: a movement seems to take shape, which starts from the romances-memories of the beginning of the century whose authors give an increased place to the money and carry an unique look at the needy, developed in the middle of the century through figures anchored in the social reality of their time, such as the Nephew of Rameau or Margot the Ravaudeuse, to achieve this raw image of the destitute offered by a Retif or a Mercier, which triumphs at the end of the century
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Trigger, David Scott, and n/a. "Does the way we measure poverty matter? : an analysis of alternative poverty measures with particular reference to changes in the level of poverty in Australia between 1975 and 1994." University of Canberra. Management & Technology, 2000. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061109.153010.
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There has been considerable controversy and debate over recent years about the most
appropriate method of measuring poverty. This debate has included, among other issues,
the questions of absolute versus relative poverty, the merits of money income as a
measure of the standard of living and the associated selection of poverty lines and
equivalence scales, and the selection of alternative indices of poverty. A review of the
literature indicates that the choice of differing approaches to poverty measurement can
lead to differing estimates of poverty. In the face of such results an evaluation of the
impact upon poverty estimates of alternative measurement methodology is appropriate.
This thesis assesses the impact upon the estimated level of poverty of variations in some
of the key poverty measurement parameters. The expenditure data derived from the
1975-76, 1984 and 1993-94 Household Expenditure Surveys have been analysed to
assess the sensitivity of poverty estimates, derived from a range of poverty indices, to
variations in the generosity of the equivalence scales, the level of the poverty line, and
the choice of the indicator of the level of resources used. The sensitivity of each poverty
index to variations in these parameters is assessed at both the aggregated level and for
the specified household types, while those population subgroups particularly susceptible
to poverty are also identified. The poverty distributions derived for each of the survey
years are compared to evaluate the impact upon changes in the level of poverty over
time of variations in the underlying parameters.
The thesis concludes that both poverty estimates at a point in time, and poverty trends
over time are sensitive to variations in the equivalence scales, in the level of the poverty
line, in the selection of the indicator of the level of resources, and in the choice of
poverty index itself. In light of these results, a review of recent Australian poverty
research concludes that insufficient attention has been paid to the sensitivity issues
associated with the measurement of poverty.
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Rees-Jones, Anna Margaret, and margaretrj@optusnet com au. "The pioneering press of Poverty Bay : 1872-1914." RMIT University. Applied Communication, 2004. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091215.165142.
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This thesis explores the significance of the newspaper press in a settler society, in this case Poverty Bay on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It examines the circumstances of such a society's communications needs and problems, and its demographic structure. It also looks at the changing patterns of journalism in nineteenth century New Zealand and elsewhere and, importantly, printing's technological progress as it affected a provincial newspaper. Remoteness was a dominating feature of the Poverty Bay district and European settlement was slow to develop. The consequence was twofold: institutions, such as the church, the press and the school, were already well-established in New Zealand by the time this second frontier region began to attract much attention - in the case of the press this meant an interconnectedness from the outset, with ideas and staff emanating from established New Zealand circles - and communication difficulties caused by isolation. Poverty Bay's first newspaper, the Poverty Bay Standard, began in 1872, more than thirty years after New Zealand's first newspaper, the New Zealand Gazette. The 1870s saw a clamour of activity. This was reflected in the district's press, not only within its pages, but also with considerable competition and changing of ownership. Eventually one newspaper, the Poverty Bay Herald, succeeded where all others failed. The Poverty Bay Herald has remained in the hands of one family since experienced printer Allan Ramsay Muir became part-owner in 1884. Thus, the family and the community have been intertwined for one hundred and twenty years. Good provincial newspapers provide a cohesive element in their society or they do not succeed. The Poverty Bay Herald initially survived through luck and useful friends but it became a beacon for its community in that it reflected success and modernity. Many others attempted to dislodge it or share the stage, but the Poverty Bay Herald played, and still plays, a significant role as the former 'out district' stabilized and advanced.
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Thomas, Alicia Hill. "Learning from the field : are high poverty, high performing schools professional learning communities? /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Jones, Branwen Gruffydd. "Explaining global poverty : a critical realist approach /." London : Routledge, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40165545f.
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Carson, Dayanna Vontresea. "What are the Experiences of African American Female Principals in High-Poverty Urban Schools?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011826/.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of African American female principals serving in high-poverty urban schools. This study was warranted due to the growing number of African American female principal leaders in urban schools over the last 20 years. School leaders in urban school districts are expected to increase academic achievement, support district initiatives, and foster the development of urban communities. The study results will serve as a source of information to educators on similar journeys.
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Gibson, Greg. "School Resource Allocation in Texas Public Schools: Study of High-Poverty, High Performing Schools and High-Poverty, Low Performing Schools." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9927/.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between resource allocation practices in specific categorical functions and student performance in reading and math. This study utilized quantitative research methods to study the effects of spending and performance over four years of analysis. Quantitative data was acquired utilizing information from the Texas Education Agency. The data was collected from 81 campuses and represented over 1,500 students. The study's outcomes reported that little or no correlation could be found between inputs (dollars spent in three categories) and outputs (student results in reading and math). However, subgroup analysis revealed that students from non- low socioeconomic (SES) households started out higher than their low SES counterparts, and low SES students performed worse over time in both reading and math. Math results decreased more dramatically than reading indicating a need for school-level training in data analysis to ensure that limited dollars are spent appropriately. The study recommends that principals and school administrators be especially knowledgeable in critical data analysis skills. The study further recommends that state policy-makers invest more heavily in early math instruction. In addition, the current study found that student achievement, in low-SES students, especially in mathematics is very alarming. Low SES students are starting out behind the non low-SES counterparts and perform progressively worse over time. State policy makers must address these concerns.
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Cecchet, Lucia. "Poverty and Beggary in Ancient Greece (800-330 BC): Perception, Identity and Social Reality." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/368137.
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La presente ricerca ha l'obiettivo di ricostruire – sulla base dell'esame delle fonti letterarie
greche di età arcaica e classica – gli aspetti fondamentali intorno ai quali si è articolata la
riflessione sul tema della povertà . Il lavoro qui proposto non è una ricerca esaustiva sui
problemi relativi a povertà e impoverimento nel mondo greco dall'età arcaica a quella
ellenistica: sia la durata che la natura del progetto hanno imposto infatti precisi limiti
temporali e geografici. Il lavoro inizia con l'esame delle fonti letterarie di età arcaica, a partire
circa dall' VIII sec. a.C., e finisce con l'esame di quelle coeve all'espansione di Filippo II di
Macedonia nel IV sec. a.C. La polis ateniese non è l'unica organizzazione politica e sociale
presa in considerazione: la democrazia e la cultura ateniese di età classica, infatti, sono eredi
sia della cultura ateniese di età arcaica sia della riflessione etica, politica e filosofica
elaborata in altre parti del mondo greco sempre in età arcaica. Pertanto sarebbe impossibile
capire la concezione, la percezione e l'immaginario ateniese sul tema della povertà , e le
soluzioni concretamente proposte ai problemi ad essa relativi senza prendere in esame la
precedente riflessione maturata sugli stessi temi in ambito ateniese e non.
L'esame della documentazione relativa ad alcune poleis di età arcaica sarà condotto nella
prima parte del lavoro sotto il titolo di ''Poverty and Destitution in the Archaic World''. La
seconda parte, intitolata ''Being Poor in Classical Athens'' è rivolta esclusivamente allo studio
della documentazione relativa alla democrazia ateniese di quinto e quarto secolo a.C. Questa
scelta non è dovuta semplicemente alla maggiore quantità di informazione disponibile per
Atene rispetto alle altre poleis nell’età classica: essa è dovuta anche al fatto che, come viene
dimostrato nella seconda parte di questo lavoro, la democrazia ateniese ha riformulato l'idea
tradizionale di povertà attraverso la celebrazione e della legittimazione politica di ciò che ho
chiamato ''povertà attiva''.
Il lavoro può essere diviso in tre grandi sezioni tematiche: la prima riguarda quello che
possiamo chiamare, con un certo grado di astrazione teorica, ''il mondo dell'epica''. In questa
prima sezione (che comprende i capitoli I e II) si trattano le immagini letterarie relative a
povertà e accattonaggio nell'Odissea e in Esiodo (Le Opere e i Giorni), le spiegazioni
ideologiche indirettamente fornite per questi fenomeni all'interno di questi poemi, le modalitÃ
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di integrazione e assistenza a poveri e mendicanti e, per converso, le forme della loro
possibile emarginazione nel contesto di una società rurale arcaica.
La seconda sezione (Capitolo III) prende in esame altre fonti di età arcaica, questa volta
relative al problema di povertà e impoverimento nel contesto della polis di VII e VI secolo
a.C., quindi nell'ambito di una realtà politica e sociale in fase di definizione. Vengono
esaminati i casi di Sparta, Megara e Atene sulla base delle informazioni fornite dai poeti
elegiaci di VI secolo e su fonti piú tarde relative all'età arcaica (principalmente Aristotele e
Plutarco). Uno dei punti salienti dell'indagine sono le grandi azioni di riforma che, secondo
una tradizione probabilmente risalente al IV secolo a.C., sarebbero state attuate da queste
poleis in età arcaica per porre fine ai problemi posti dall'impoverimento e dall'indebitamento
di ampi strati della popolazione rurale ripristinando così l'equilibrio politico e sociale minato
da questi fenomeni.
La terza sezione (che corrisponde alla seconda parte del lavoro) è rivolta interamente allo
studio dell'Atene democratica. Nei capitoli IV, V e VI verrà ricostruito il dibattito che sembra
aver animato la scena pubblica ateniese riguardo a temi quali povertà e leadership politica,
povertà e virtù etiche, povertà ''attiva'' e povertà ''passiva'' con la conseguente
stigmatizzazione pubblica dell' inattività (argia) intesa come comportamento socialmente e
politicamente inaccettabile. I punti cardine di questo dibattito possono essere ricostruiti sulla
base di rappresentazioni teatrali (soprattutto alcune tragedie euripidee e alcune commedie di
Aristofane), degli scritti politici di Platone e Aristotele, e dell'oratoria di IV secolo, sia di tipo
politico-epidittico che forense.
Nella sezione finale (Conclusioni) vengono posti a confronto i risultati emersi dalla ricerca
condotta nella prima (cap. I-III) e nella seconda parte (cap. IV-VI) al fine di individuare
elementi di continuità e di cambiamento nella percezione pubblica, nella riflessione politica e
nella rappresentazione letteraria del fenomeno della povertà e dei problemi ad essa relativi
all'interno del periodo storico preso in esame (ca. 800-330 a.C.).
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Purba, Rasita Ekawati. "Rural women, poverty and social welfare programs in Indonesia." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0056.
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[Truncated abstract] As a developing country, Indonesia has been struggling with complex and contentious development issues since Independence in 1945. Despite remarkable economic achievement during the New Order period (1966-1998), poverty has persisted and the benefits of development have been unequally distributed. Social welfare — the system of social security to protect the well-being of the weaker members of society has received little attention in Indonesia, both from the state and from the scholarly community. The historical neglect of social welfare in Indonesia has begun to be addressed recently, with the Social Safety Net (SSN) initiative. SSN is a social welfare program that was launched by the government of Indonesia to mitigate the deleterious impacts of the economic crisis that hit the nation in 1997. This thesis aims to assess how the SSN accommodated the needs and aspirations of poor women, particularly those who live in rural areas. The rural poor deserve attention because poverty in rural areas is widespread and often intractable, and because poverty in rural areas tends to be more invisible than in urban areas. The urban poor are more visible, because they are “in the face” of the powerful every day, and they are more likely to be able to access agencies of power than the rural poor.
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Purba, Rasita Ekawati. "Rural women, poverty and social welfare programs in Indonesia /." Connect to this title, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0056.
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Cecchet, Lucia. "Poverty and Beggary in Ancient Greece (800-330 BC): Perception, Identity and Social Reality." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2012. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/1160/1/Cover_(Internal).pdf.
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La presente ricerca ha l'obiettivo di ricostruire – sulla base dell'esame delle fonti letterarie
greche di età arcaica e classica – gli aspetti fondamentali intorno ai quali si è articolata la
riflessione sul tema della povertà. Il lavoro qui proposto non è una ricerca esaustiva sui
problemi relativi a povertà e impoverimento nel mondo greco dall'età arcaica a quella
ellenistica: sia la durata che la natura del progetto hanno imposto infatti precisi limiti
temporali e geografici. Il lavoro inizia con l'esame delle fonti letterarie di età arcaica, a partire
circa dall' VIII sec. a.C., e finisce con l'esame di quelle coeve all'espansione di Filippo II di
Macedonia nel IV sec. a.C. La polis ateniese non è l'unica organizzazione politica e sociale
presa in considerazione: la democrazia e la cultura ateniese di età classica, infatti, sono eredi
sia della cultura ateniese di età arcaica sia della riflessione etica, politica e filosofica
elaborata in altre parti del mondo greco sempre in età arcaica. Pertanto sarebbe impossibile
capire la concezione, la percezione e l'immaginario ateniese sul tema della povertà, e le
soluzioni concretamente proposte ai problemi ad essa relativi senza prendere in esame la
precedente riflessione maturata sugli stessi temi in ambito ateniese e non.
L'esame della documentazione relativa ad alcune poleis di età arcaica sarà condotto nella
prima parte del lavoro sotto il titolo di ''Poverty and Destitution in the Archaic World''. La
seconda parte, intitolata ''Being Poor in Classical Athens'' è rivolta esclusivamente allo studio
della documentazione relativa alla democrazia ateniese di quinto e quarto secolo a.C. Questa
scelta non è dovuta semplicemente alla maggiore quantità di informazione disponibile per
Atene rispetto alle altre poleis nell’età classica: essa è dovuta anche al fatto che, come viene
dimostrato nella seconda parte di questo lavoro, la democrazia ateniese ha riformulato l'idea
tradizionale di povertà attraverso la celebrazione e della legittimazione politica di ciò che ho
chiamato ''povertà attiva''.
Il lavoro può essere diviso in tre grandi sezioni tematiche: la prima riguarda quello che
possiamo chiamare, con un certo grado di astrazione teorica, ''il mondo dell'epica''. In questa
prima sezione (che comprende i capitoli I e II) si trattano le immagini letterarie relative a
povertà e accattonaggio nell'Odissea e in Esiodo (Le Opere e i Giorni), le spiegazioni
ideologiche indirettamente fornite per questi fenomeni all'interno di questi poemi, le modalità
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di integrazione e assistenza a poveri e mendicanti e, per converso, le forme della loro
possibile emarginazione nel contesto di una società rurale arcaica.
La seconda sezione (Capitolo III) prende in esame altre fonti di età arcaica, questa volta
relative al problema di povertà e impoverimento nel contesto della polis di VII e VI secolo
a.C., quindi nell'ambito di una realtà politica e sociale in fase di definizione. Vengono
esaminati i casi di Sparta, Megara e Atene sulla base delle informazioni fornite dai poeti
elegiaci di VI secolo e su fonti piú tarde relative all'età arcaica (principalmente Aristotele e
Plutarco). Uno dei punti salienti dell'indagine sono le grandi azioni di riforma che, secondo
una tradizione probabilmente risalente al IV secolo a.C., sarebbero state attuate da queste
poleis in età arcaica per porre fine ai problemi posti dall'impoverimento e dall'indebitamento
di ampi strati della popolazione rurale ripristinando così l'equilibrio politico e sociale minato
da questi fenomeni.
La terza sezione (che corrisponde alla seconda parte del lavoro) è rivolta interamente allo
studio dell'Atene democratica. Nei capitoli IV, V e VI verrà ricostruito il dibattito che sembra
aver animato la scena pubblica ateniese riguardo a temi quali povertà e leadership politica,
povertà e virtù etiche, povertà ''attiva'' e povertà ''passiva'' con la conseguente
stigmatizzazione pubblica dell' inattività (argia) intesa come comportamento socialmente e
politicamente inaccettabile. I punti cardine di questo dibattito possono essere ricostruiti sulla
base di rappresentazioni teatrali (soprattutto alcune tragedie euripidee e alcune commedie di
Aristofane), degli scritti politici di Platone e Aristotele, e dell'oratoria di IV secolo, sia di tipo
politico-epidittico che forense.
Nella sezione finale (Conclusioni) vengono posti a confronto i risultati emersi dalla ricerca
condotta nella prima (cap. I-III) e nella seconda parte (cap. IV-VI) al fine di individuare
elementi di continuità e di cambiamento nella percezione pubblica, nella riflessione politica e
nella rappresentazione letteraria del fenomeno della povertà e dei problemi ad essa relativi
all'interno del periodo storico preso in esame (ca. 800-330 a.C.).
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Tonkope, Nametsegang [Verfasser]. "Are Entrepreneurship, Research and Management a Remedy for Unemployment and Poverty in Botswana? / Nametsegang Tonkope." München : GRIN Verlag, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1184991855/34.
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Nxele, Musawenkosi. "Does mining alleviate or exacerbate poverty: Are local community grievances really 'Much Ado about Nothing'?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24930.
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This study sets out to evaluate the impact of industrial mining on local economies, within a context of a developing country with a strict procurement policy on its extractive industry. It contributes empirical evidence on two main ideas on the impact of mining on local communities. The one idea is that mining has a positive impact on local communities because it creates economic activity through economic linkages with local markets; and thus contributes to local industrialisation, economic development, and poverty reduction. The other idea is that mining harms local economies through negative impacts on the environment; which hurts local agriculture and health, leading to an increase in local poverty. By evaluating a case study of a poor rural economy driven by mining and agriculture, this study measures the net average impact of the opening and expansion of mining on local income poverty. Using ward level data combined with firm data, the study essentially uses a difference-in-differences estimation procedure, by exploiting a local input demand shock from large industrial mines, as well as changes in distance to a mine, as sources of variation. The study finds that the opening of a mine is associated with poverty reduction in surrounding communities, while the impact from an expansion of a mine depends on the type of commodity mined. Unpacking these results by commodity gives insight into the concentration of labour and community unrest in the platinum and gold mining sectors in South Africa. The findings of this study remain robust to different indicators of mine expansion, and checks for alternative explanations such as selective migration and sample checks. The study uses the Limpopo Province of South Africa as a suitable case study.
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Mookodi, Godisang. "We are struggling, gender, poverty and the dynamics of survival within low-income households in Botswana." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0006/NQ41250.pdf.
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de, Campos Thana Cristina. "Responsibilities for the global health crisis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3e22ef01-09ec-435c-8264-ae05d6a371ba.
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This thesis aims to provide a framework for analyzing the moral responsibilities of global agents in what I call the Global Health Crisis (GHC), with special attention devoted to the moral responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies. The main contribution of this thesis is to provide a general account of the moral responsibilities of different global players, mapping the different kinds of duties they have, their content and force, and their relation to the responsibilities of other relevant actors in the GHC. I also apply this account to current debates surrounding the need for reforms to the international legal rules addressing the GHC, notably the TRIPs regime. In doing so, this thesis will discuss the allocation of responsibilities for the GHC among different global players, such as state and non-state actors, the latter including pharmaceutical companies. In order to investigate the allocation of duties, I will first analyze the object of such allocation which constitutes the object of the current GHC (Part A); then the agents responsible for addressing this crisis (Part B); and finally, existing institutional alternatives to reform the international legal rules addressing the GHC, such as the TRIPs regime (Part C).
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Fillis, Alicia Jo-Anne. "Gesinsveerkragtigheid by arm enkelouergesinne." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1555.
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Thesis (MSc (Psychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.Family resilience focuses on the salutegenic properties of families and refers to the ability of families to return to normal family functioning after experiencing adversity. The primary aim of this study was to identify factors that contribute to resilience in poor single parent families.
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Hollingshead, Samuel McKinley. "A Qualitative Assessment of the Perceptions of Teachers Concerning How Economically Disadvantaged Students at White Pine School Are Being Served." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1488.
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to assess teacher perception of how economically disadvantaged students at White Pine School were being served. The results of this study may help educators at White Pine School determine how to support and improve learning conditions for economically disadvantaged students.
Data collection techniques included individual interviews, focus group interviews, and document review. The following conditions were discovered in relation to economically disadvantaged students: positive home-school relationships; desire to become a full-service school; limited parent-training opportunities with limited participation; limited professional development opportunities; limited poverty discussion in professional learning communities; underuse of college partnerships; need for a mentoring program; need for programming to combat absenteeism; demand for additional early intervention programs; positive student-teacher relationships; a variety of opportunities for students of poverty to build confidence; teachers high expectations from teachers; importance given to enrichment opportunities; teaching strategies focused on active learning; assignment of small, meaningful doses of homework; limited tutoring opportunities; and use of multiple data-collection methods.
Recommendations for improving how students of poverty are served include continuing to expand efforts concerning positive home-school relationships, investigating the possibility of becoming a full-service school, designing a powerful parent-training program, offering additional professional development training for teachers, developing poverty-related topics for professional learning communities, finding ways to improve partnerships with local colleges and universities, designing a quality mentoring program, finding creative ways to address absenteeism, finding additional means of providing early intervention, continuing to develop positive student-teacher relationships, finding additional ways to build confidence, maintaining high expectations of students of poverty, creating additional meaningful enrichment opportunities, searching for the best teaching strategies to improve learning, continuing to assign meaningful homework with assistance as needed, creating a comprehensive tutoring program, and collecting meaningful and useful data to help teachers increase students' achievement.
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McGowan, Kathleen Grace. "Free art, free love, free money: a Free @rt school communique." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/551.
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Mäkinen, Virpi. "Property rights in the late medieval discussion on franciscan poverty /." Leuven : Peeters, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38861523c.
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Nyumba, Tobias Ochieng. "Are elephants flagships or battleships? : understanding impacts of human-elephant conflict on human wellbeing in Trans Mara District, Kenya." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275582.
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This thesis examines the impacts of human-elephant conflict on human wellbeing and the implications for elephant conservation and management in Trans Mara District, Kenya. The District comprises communal lands bordering the world-famous Masai Mara National Reserve in southwestern Kenya. Trans Mara supports a range of land use types and provides refuge to one of Kenya’s large elephant population comprised of over 3,000 transient and 500 resident animals. This study used interdisciplinary methods to gain insights into the nature and consequences of conflict on the wellbeing of communities living with elephants. In particular, I used a combination of existing wellbeing indices and a set of indicators developed through consultations with local communities in TM to measure impacts of HEC on specific wellbeing domains. The results show that elephants still use the communal lands in Trans Mara but are increasingly restricted to the riverine forest remnants in central Trans Mara. However, there was no evidence of a further decline in the elephant range. Instead, this study points to a shift in elephant range against a background of increasing human settlement, land sub-division and agricultural expansion. The wellbeing of Trans Mara residents comprised eight indicators. Human-elephant conflict negatively affected peoples’ wellbeing, but the impacts were limited to certain dimensions. Elephants affected school-going children within elephant range. Attitudes towards elephants and its conservation in TM were influenced by the location of human residence relative to elephant refuge, diversity of income sources, and age and gender. Finally, conflict mitigation in Trans Mara is still elusive and challenging, but opportunities exist to develop simple and dynamic mitigation tools. The findings of this study have important implications for the future of elephant conservation in the face of competing human needs, both in Trans Mara District and elsewhere in Africa.
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Woodson, Thomas S. "Emerging technology for the poor: how nanomedicine and public private partnerships are used to address diseases of poverty." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52278.
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Decreasing the number of people that die from preventable illnesses and reducing poverty and inequality are major public goods that are being addressed from a variety of angles. One way that policy makers and scholars are trying to improve global health is by developing new health technologies that will decrease poverty and inequality. This dissertation investigates whether nanotechnologies for medical applications (nanomedicine) are used to address diseases of poverty (DoP) and the role that public partnerships (PPP) play in nanomedicine research. If scientists are developing nanotechnology based vaccines and medicines for DoP, then I can conclude that the technology is helping to decrease poverty and inequality.
There are two parts to my analysis. The first part of my dissertation analyses the landscape of nanomedicine DoP research and then I test how USA medicine sales, disease burden and diseases of poverty correlate with number of nanomedicine publications and patents. I find that there is some nanomedicine research on diseases of poverty, especially for high profile DoP like malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, but overall there is less R&D on DoPs than non-DoPs. However, I cannot determine if USA medicine sales and disease burden have any relationship to research output.
In the second part of my dissertation I examine the role of formal public-private partnerships (PPPs) for developing DoP medicines. Many think the formal health PPPs can overcome the various market failures associated with developing medicines for DoP. I analyze PPP websites and interview PPP managers/scientists about their research portfolios, relationship with nanotechnology, and how PPPs are addressing inequality in health R&D. I find that managers/scientists at PPPs have a variety of opinions about nanotechnology, but the general consensus is that nanotechnology will not be used in the near-term for DoP medicines. PPP managers/scientists believe that the technology is too expensive for DoP medicines and it will take too long to approve nanomedicines. Instead of using nanotechnology most PPPs are in favor of using traditional technologies.
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Zundel, Alan F. "Declarations of dependency : the civic Republican tradition in U.S. poverty policy /." Albany (N.Y.) : State university of New York, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb377378362.
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Kallis, Denver. "Are microfinance institutions in South Africa efficient? - A case study in the Limpopo province." University of the Western Cape, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7790.
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Magister Commercii - MComThis minithesis aims to determine whether South Africa's microfinance institutions are operating efficiently and whether efficiency can be enhanced. Using the United Nations model and framework for efficiency, it examines the key principles of operational efficiency in the South African microfinance context. The paper begins with an overview of the literature relating to the principles of efficiency as underscored in the United Nations model.
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Mogg, Laura. "The"War on Poverty" and "Welfare Reform": A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Elite Newspaper Editorial Coverage in 1964 and 1996." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/685.
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From the time of the "war on poverty" of 1964, to the era of "welfare reform" in 1990s, the federal welfare system underwent a change from a model that acted to protect citizens from the vagaries of the market economy to one that mandated their participation in the paid labor force. For a shift in policy of this magnitude to occur and be unquestioningly accepted by the public, a significant change also had to occur in how poverty and welfare issues were discussed and perceived over the intervening years. Using discourse analysis, this study examines how editorials in elite newspapers framed the issues of poverty and welfare in the months prior to the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act (1964) and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996). It also addresses how newspaper editorials influenced public perception about the nature and causes of poverty and welfare reliance.
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Gregory, Callie. "Relative Effectiveness of Anti-poverty Nonprofit Organizations in Assisting a Below Poverty Population in Dallas County and Tarrant County: Recipients of Faith-based and Non Faith-based Organizations." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115088/.
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Recent orders from the executive branch of the United States’ government have encouraged participation from faith-based organizations in providing human services because they are more effective in aiding impoverished citizens. This study examined the effectiveness of faith-based and non faith-based anti-poverty nonprofit organizations to find if one organization type is more effective in providing social services. the data for this study were collected through a survey-questionnaire which was administered to a convenience sample of 82 participants seeking assistance from four different nonprofit organizations (two faith-based and two non faith-based) in Dallas County and Tarrant County. the results from this study indicated that when controlling for demographic and socio-economic variables, recipients from faith-based organizations were less likely to report that they at least received services desired as compared to those who visited a non faith-based organization. Therefore, non faith-based organizations were better at meeting the needs of respondents than faith-based organizations.
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Sigler, Steven M. "Renewing societies : interculturalism and the creative sojourner /." Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20100203.142632.
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Henry, David, and n/a. "A poverty focus for aid to basic education in the South Pacific." University of Canberra. Education, 1991. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060720.155223.
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The aim of this thesis is to develop approaches that aid agencies could
use in the appraisal and/or development of basic education programs
in South Pacific countries which address aspects of poverty. It is set
in the context of wider international concern that aid programs need to
have a more direct impact on the conditions of the poor than they have
had in the recent past.
Concepts of poverty, basic education and literacy appropriate to South
Pacific countries are developed and relationships among them are
examined as preliminary steps to data collection and analysis. The
data for the thesis comes from programs of aid to basic education that
were running in or have commenced since 1985 and consists of
formal evaluations and reviews, the opinion of expert panels and
anecdotal evidence from individuals. Analysis of the data is
conducted in two stages; first, criteria by which to judge the success
of programs are developed and applied to the data, and second, the
common components of successful programs are identified.
The 'components of success' are then used to develop approaches that
aid agencies could employ in analysing program proposals and/or in
developing programs in basic education that have a poverty focus.
Examples of how these approaches could be applied to particular
programs are given.
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Ungan, Umut. "Langage et art contemporain. Éléments pour une analyse du discours critique : l’exemple de Germano Celant sur l’"arte povera"." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH034/document.
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À travers l’analyse du discours de Germano Celant sur l’arte povera, la présente thèse cherche à décrire et à comprendre le statut particulier du langage au sein d’un champ spécifique de l’art contemporain en prenant comme objet les stratégies argumentatives qui s’y trouvent à l’œuvre depuis l’invention du concept « pauvre » à la fin des années 1960 par le critique/historien/commissaire d’exposition italien jusqu’à aujourd’hui, tout en soulignant leur interdépendance avec l’évolution de son statut social et celle des logiques interprétatives/évaluatives qui en découlentThrough the discourse analysis of Germano Celant on arte povera, this present thesis aims to describe and comprehend the status of the language within a specific domain of contemporary art by analysing the argumentative strategies from the invention of the “poor” concept by the italian critic/historian/curator at the 1960s until today, underlining their interdependance with the evolution of his social status and that of the interpretative/evaluative logiques which results from
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Lucas, Denise DeMaria. "Learned resourcefulness in working women who are poor and uninsured." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10932.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2010.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 106 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-94).
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Vancassel, Myriam. "L'objet d'art humanitaire : vers une esthétique de la bonté." Bordeaux 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006BOR30030.
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L'esthétique de la bonté croise les analyses transversales du concept de l'objet d'art humanitaire par une hybridation du champ de l'art et de l'humanitaire, en créant l'Art Humanitaire. Notre théorie est fondée sur une interface entre deux objets d'art, l'un situé dans la Renaissance et l'autre dans une seconde Renaissance contemporaine, au sein de l'Arte Povera. Nous avons étudié formellement et symboliquement, un objet d'art novateur majeur, le Retable d'Issenheim de Matthias Grünewald, parallèlement à un objet d'art novateur humanitaire, Cittadellarte, de Michelangelo Pistoletto. L'objet d'art humanitaire a été repéré comme une évolution de l'expression de la beauté passive, contemplative, vers une expression de la beauté active, et même interactive. Nous avons discerné, l'objet d'art novateur, au mécanisme de confusion du beau et du bon d'avec l'objet d'art humanitaire, au mécanisme de co-fusion du beau et du bon. Ces mécanismes sont identifiés comme réactivations du Kalos Kagathos de Platon, proposent des modèles de référence culturelle, spirituelle, cultuelle, européenne, antique empruntés à l'histoire de la noblesse d'âme. L'Art Humanitaire pointe une possible seconde Renaissance, portant en elle un retour au sens sacré de la valeur de la vie qui serait un catalyseur contre la violence. En filigrane, l'Oeuvre de Michelangelo Pistoletto se superpose sur celle d'André Malraux, pour énoncer (dans la thèse) des recherches nouvelles en éducation, création et action avec le laboratoire nomade de l'Art Humanitaire et le dictionnaire de l'Art Humanitaire, pour un continent artistique européen, sans-frontièresThe aesthetics of goodness meets the cross-disciplinary analyses of the concept of a humanitarian work of art through the hybridization of the artistic and humanitarian fields, by creating Humanitarian Art. Our theory is based on an interface between two works of art, the first one located in the Renaissance, and the other in a second contemporary Renaissance, within the Arte Povera. We formally and symbolically studied a major innovative workrt, the Retable d'Issenheim by Matthias Grünewald, in parallel with a humanitarian work of art, Cittadellarte, by Michelangelo Pistoletto. The humanitarian work of art has been viewed as an evolution from the expression of passive and contemplative beauty to an expression of active or even interactive beauty. We distinguish between the innovative work of art, where a mechanism of confusion between beauty and goodness prevails, and the humanitarian work of art, where a mechanism of co-fusion between beauty and goodness is most prominent. These mechanisms are identified as reactivations of Plato's Kalos Kagathos and propose models of cultural, spiritual, European and ancient reference, borrowed from the history of the nobility of the soul. Umanitarian Art points towards a possible second Renaissance, bearing in itself a return to the sacred sense of the value of life, as a catalyst against violence. Implicitly, the work of Michelangelo Pistoletto superimposes itself over that of André Malraux, to set forth new research in education, creation and action with the nomadic laboratory of Humanitarian Art and the dictionary of Humanitarian Art, for a European artistic continent, without borders
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Greenlee, Richard Wesley. "And yet they are poor : a naturalistic study of rural poverty and the working poor people of Appalachian Ohio." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1261051604.
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