Participation and Poverty Reduction: An Analytical Framework and Overview of the Issues

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hoddinott
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Analytical Framework

scholarly journals Advancing a Five-Level Typology of Homelessness Prevention

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
Suzanne Fitzpatrick ◽  
Peter Mackie ◽  
Jenny Wood
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Key Comparisons ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
Homelessness Prevention

This paper aims to demonstrate the efficacy of a five-level homelessness prevention typology, encompassing universal, targeted, crisis, emergency, and recovery categories. We argue that this typology can be deployed to illuminate key comparisons in homelessness prevention policy and practice between different jurisdictions and over time. Meanwhile, it avoids the confusions and overlaps that occur in extant categorisations. Using the UK jurisdictions as an empirical testbed for this analytical framework, four key lessons emerge which we contend have resonance across much of the global north. First, though there is growing evidence of the importance of both universal prevention measures (particularly the delivery of affordable housing and poverty reduction), and targeted preventative interventions (focused on high risk groups and transitions), practical action on both fronts has been deeply deficient to date. Second, and more encouragingly, there is a nascent shift in homelessness practice from an overwhelming focus on basic, emergency interventions, towards more upstream attempts to avert the kind of crisis situations that can lead to homelessness arising in the first place. Third, and also welcome, is a trend within recovery interventions from treatment-led to more housing-led models, albeit that this shift has been frustratingly slow to materialise in many countries. Fourth, across all of these categories of homelessness prevention, there remain substantial evidence gaps, especially outside of the US.

CCTs for Female Heads of Households and Market Citizenship at State-Level in Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-507
Author(s):  
Anahely Medrano
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
State Level ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
Do So

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become key anti-poverty reduction strategies in Latin America. There are different types of CCTs implemented at the national and subnational level in this region. This paper analyses the design of CCT programmes directed to assist female heads of households at the state level in Mexico. To do so, the study applies an analytical framework to make a comparative study of the key features of the design, looking specifically at the way the target population is constructed as welfare recipients and citizens. The results of this qualitative study suggest that, irrespective of the purposes of these social programmes, the design reflects certain values and normative beliefs related to the notion of market citizenship, which also seem to intersect with certain ideas about motherhood and the poor in Mexico.

Conservation's poverty reduction claims questioned

Nature ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction

Reframing Xenophobia in South Africa as Colour-Blind: The Limits of the Afro Phobia Thesis

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-444
Author(s):  
Amanuel Isak Tewolde
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Conflict Theory ◽  
Black African ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Realistic Conflict Theory

Many scholars and South African politicians characterize the widespread anti-foreigner sentiment and violence in South Africa as dislike against migrants and refugees of African origin which they named ‘Afro-phobia’. Drawing on online newspaper reports and academic sources, this paper rejects the Afro-phobia thesis and argues that other non-African migrants such as Asians (Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and Chinese) are also on the receiving end of xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa. I contend that any ‘outsider’ (White, Asian or Black African) who lives and trades in South African townships and informal settlements is scapegoated and attacked. I term this phenomenon ‘colour-blind xenophobia’. By proposing this analytical framework and integrating two theoretical perspectives — proximity-based ‘Realistic Conflict Theory (RCT)’ and Neocosmos’ exclusivist citizenship model — I contend that xenophobia in South Africa targets those who are in close proximity to disadvantaged Black South Africans and who are deemed outsiders (e.g., Asian, African even White residents and traders) and reject arguments that describe xenophobia in South Africa as targeting Black African refugees and migrants.

Microfinance and poverty reduction - evidence from Latin America

1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hege Gulli ◽  
Marguerite Berger
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Poverty Reduction
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