Socioeconomic Effects of COVID-19 in Mexico: A Multisectoral Approach and Policy Options

The health crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19 has caused a profound social and economic disruption in Mexico. Our purpose in this paper is to contribute to the knowledge about the economic impact of the pandemic in Mexico and to evaluate social policy options to mitigate its effects. We do so based on a multisectoral-multiplier model and the most recent Social Accounting Matrix for Mexico, with which we estimate the direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 as well the likely effects of two alternatives for mitigating them: an unconditional cash transfer scheme for households living in poverty, and the establishment of an unemployment insurance program for workers who have lost their jobs during the pandemic. We find that the first alternative alleviates more value added and loss of income, and thus has a greater effect in reducing inequality and the incidence of poverty.

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ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS OF APT PRANOTO AIRPORT PROJECT DURING CONSTRUCTION PHASE

TRIKONOMIKA ◽

10.23969/trikonomika.v18i2.1181 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Economic Impact ◽

Impact Analysis ◽

Value Added ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Local Economy ◽

Output Analysis ◽

East Kalimantan ◽

Capital Spending ◽

Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽

Indirect Impacts

The aim of this research was to provide the evidence of economic benefits resulted from development of APT Pranoto airport towards East Kalimantan which will strengthen the support of the development of the new airport from various stakeholders. This research applied input-output, analysis to estimate the economic impact i.e impact of expenditure on construction phase. Direct impact includes the increase in gross value added as well as income from tax payment and create new employment. Indirect impact includes increase in capital spending of the workers and more money circulated within the area of East Kalimantan. This study conclude that there are direct and indirect impacts from APT Pranoto airport during construction phase within the period of 5 years. The findings can be used to emphasize APT Pranoto Airport Project in gaining funding and acceptance from local economy.

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Investments in children’s health and the Kenyan cash transfer for orphans and vulnerable children: evidence from an unconditional cash transfer scheme

Health Policy and Planning ◽

10.1093/heapol/czw181 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 32 (7) ◽

pp. 943-955 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Carolyn Huang ◽

Kavita Singh ◽

Sudhanshu Handa ◽

Carolyn Halpern ◽

Audrey Pettifor ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cash Transfer ◽

Children's Health ◽

Children’S Health ◽

Transfer Scheme ◽

Vulnerable Children ◽

Orphans And Vulnerable Children ◽

Unconditional Cash Transfer

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Comparative Study Of Green Practices In Haryana State Universities

Think India ◽

10.26643/think-india.v22i3.8439 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 1008-1016

Author(s):

Priyanka ◽

Ms Ipshita Bansal

Keyword(s):

State Universities ◽

Small Cities ◽

Large Size ◽

Green Practices ◽

Size Population ◽

Multiple Case ◽

Multiple Case Studies ◽

Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽

Indirect Impacts ◽

Complex Activities

Universities in the state are regarded as ‘small cities’ due to their large size, population, and the various complex activities taking place in campuses, which have some serious direct and indirect impacts on the environment. The current study focuses on the green practices in state universities of Haryana. The comparative analysis has been done between the multiple case studies and find out the best green practices being adopted in universities for moving towards making the green campus and recommend the area of improvement for making environment sustainable campus.

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Tamlīk-proper to Quasi-tamlīk: Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) of Zakat Money, Empowering the Poor and Contemporary Modes of Distributing Zakat Money with Special Reference to British Muslim Charities

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs ◽

10.1080/13602004.2021.1894388 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Shahrul Hussain

Keyword(s):

Special Reference ◽

Cash Transfer ◽

The Poor ◽

Unconditional Cash Transfer

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Impact of Entrepreneurship Extracurricular Activities and Inspiration on Entrepreneurial Intention: Mediator and Moderator Effect

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/21582440211032174 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 215824402110321

Author(s):

Thuy Thu Nguyen ◽

Linh Thi Phuong Nguyen ◽

Hoa Thi Thanh Phan ◽

Anh Trong Vu

Keyword(s):

Extracurricular Activities ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Entrepreneurial Intention ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Moderator Effect ◽

Technical Students ◽

Research Findings ◽

Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽

Indirect Impacts ◽

The Impact

This empirical study proposed a comprehensive model testing the direct and indirect impacts of entrepreneurship extracurricular activities and entrepreneurship inspiration on students’ entrepreneurial intention. With the sample consisting of 640 students from 11 universities in Vietnam, the study used structural equation modeling analysis approach. The results revealed that entrepreneurship extracurricular activities and entrepreneurship inspiration are significantly related to students’ entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurship self-efficacy partially mediates these relations. The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention differs across the field of study. Technical students generally get more benefits from entrepreneurship educational activities than business and economics students do. The research findings recommended some implications for fostering graduates’ entrepreneurship in emerging countries.

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Assessing the impact of a combined nutrition counselling and cash transfer intervention on women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh: a randomised control trial protocol

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044263 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. e044263

Author(s):

Elizabeth K Kirkwood ◽

Michael John Dibley ◽

John Frederick Hoddinott ◽

Tanvir Huda ◽

Tracey Lea Laba ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quantitative Data ◽

Women's Empowerment ◽

Cash Transfer ◽

Women’S Empowerment ◽

Randomised Control Trial ◽

Call Centre ◽

Rural Bangladesh ◽

Nutrition Counselling ◽

The Impact ◽

Unconditional Cash Transfer

IntroductionThere is growing interest in assessing the impact of health interventions, particularly when women are the focus of the intervention, on women’s empowerment. Globally, research has shown that interventions targeting nutrition, health and economic development can affect women’s empowerment. Evidence suggests that women’s empowerment is also an underlying determinant of nutrition outcomes. Depending on the focus of the intervention, different domains of women’s empowerment will be influenced, for example, an increase in nutritional knowledge, or greater control over income and access to resources.ObjectiveThis study evaluates the impact of the Shonjibon Cash and Counselling (SCC) Trial that combines nutrition counselling and an unconditional cash transfer, delivered on a mobile platform, on women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh.Methods and analysisWe will use a mixed-methods approach, combining statistical analysis of quantitative data from 2840 women in a cluster randomised controlled trial examining the impact of nutrition behaviour change communications (BCCs) and cash transfers on child undernutrition. Pregnant participants will be given a smartphone with a customised app, delivering nutrition BCC messages, and will receive nutrition counselling via a call centre and an unconditional cash transfer. This study is a component of the SCC Trial and will measure women’s empowerment using a composite indicator based on the Project-Level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, with quantitative data collection at baseline and endline. Thematic analysis of qualitative data, collected through longitudinal interviews with women, husbands and mothers-in-law, will elicit a local understanding of women’s empowerment and the linkages between the intervention and women’s empowerment outcomes. This paper describes the study protocol to evaluate women’s empowerment in a nutrition-specific and sensitive intervention using internationally validated, innovative tools and will help fill the evidence gap on pathways of impact, highlighting areas to target for future programming.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval has been obtained from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (Ref. PR 17106) and The University of Sydney (Ref: 2019/840). Findings from this study will be shared in Bangladesh with dissemination sessions in-country and internationally at conferences, and will be published in peer-reviewed journals.

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Group Facilitation on Societal Disruption and Collapse: Insights from Deep Adaptation

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13116280 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 6280

Author(s):

Jem Bendell ◽

Katie Carr

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Environmental Degradation ◽

First Person ◽

Group Facilitation ◽

Environmental Destruction ◽

Difficult Conversations ◽

Radical Uncertainty ◽

Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽

Indirect Impacts

This article synthesises the practice and rationale behind ways of facilitating gatherings on topics of societal disruption and collapse, which is argued to be useful for lessening damaging responses. The authors draw on first-person inquiry as facilitators of gatherings, both online and in person, in the post-sustainability field of ‘Deep Adaptation,’ particularly since 2018. This term describes an agenda and framework for people who believe in the probable, inevitable or unfolding collapse of industrial consumer societies, due to the direct and indirect impacts of human-caused climate change and environmental degradation. Some of the principles of Deep Adaptation facilitation are summarised, such as containment, to enable co-responsibility for a safe enough space for difficult conversations. Another key principle is welcoming radical uncertainty in response to the anxieties that people feel from their anticipation of collapse. A third principle is making space for difficult emotions, which are welcomed as a natural and ongoing response to our predicament. A fourth aspect is a curiosity about processes of othering and separation. This paper provides a review of the theories that a reason for environmental destruction is the process of othering people and nature as being less significant or meaningful. One particular modality called Deep Relating is outlined.

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A Holistic Intersection Rating System (HIRS)—A Novel Methodology to Measure the Holistic Operational Performance of Signalized Urban Intersections

Smart Cities ◽

10.3390/smartcities4030054 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 1018-1038

Author(s):

Wesam Emad Saba ◽

Salwa M. Beheiry ◽

Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh ◽

Mustafa S. AL-Tekreeti

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Local Economy ◽

Rating System ◽

Operational Performance ◽

Community Activities ◽

Community Wellbeing ◽

Importance Index ◽

Health Community ◽

Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽

Indirect Impacts

Signalized urban intersections are key components of urban transportation networks. They are traditionally viewed and designed as primarily motorized traffic facilities, and thus their physical and operational designs have traditionally aimed at maximizing traffic throughput subject to constraints dictated by vehicular safety requirements and pedestrian crossing needs. Seen from a holistic viewpoint, urban intersections are hubs or effective centers of community activities of which traffic flow is only one. Those hubs have direct and indirect impacts on the overlapping traffic functionalities, the environment, public health, community wellbeing, and the local economy. This study proposes a new rating system, the Holistic Intersection Rating System (HIRS), aimed at appraising signalized intersections from a more inclusive viewpoint. This appraisal covers traffic functionality, sustainability, and public health and community wellbeing. This rating system can be used as a guide to conceive, plan, or design new intersections or revamp existing ones. HIRS rates signalized urban intersections based on the level of use of relevant enabling technologies, and the physical and operational designs that allow those intersections to operate holistically, thus leading to a more human-centric and sustainable operational performance. HIRS was validated using a panel of experts in construction, transportation, and public health. The Relative Importance Index (RII) method was used to weigh the HIRS features. The rating system was piloted on a sample of 20 intersections in different cities in the UAE. The results revealed glaring gaps in services to or the consideration of pedestrians, cyclists, and nearby households. The sample intersections scored a mean of 32% on the public health and community wellbeing section, 37% on the pedestrian subsection, and 15% on the cyclist subsection. Such relatively low scores serve as indicators of areas for improvements, and if mapped to their specific features and their relative weights, specific physical and operations designs and technology integration can be identified as actionable items for inclusion in plans and/or designs.

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Mutualistic strategies minimize coextinction in plant–disperser networks

Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspb.2016.2302 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 284 (1854) ◽

pp. 20162302 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Evan C. Fricke ◽

Joshua J. Tewksbury ◽

Elizabeth M. Wandrag ◽

Haldre S. Rogers

Keyword(s):

Network Structure ◽

Field Experiments ◽

Empirical Relationship ◽

Network Models ◽

Mutualistic Interactions ◽

Simulated Network ◽

Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽

Indirect Impacts ◽

The Stability ◽

Seed Dispersal Mutualism

The global decline of mutualists such as pollinators and seed dispersers may cause negative direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity. Mutualistic network models used to understand the stability of mutualistic systems indicate that species with low partner diversity are most vulnerable to coextinction following mutualism disruption. However, existing models have not considered how species vary in their dependence on mutualistic interactions for reproduction or survival, overlooking the potential influence of this variation on species' coextinction vulnerability and on network stability. Using global databases and field experiments focused on the seed dispersal mutualism, we found that plants and animals that depend heavily on mutualistic interactions have higher partner diversity. Under simulated network disruption, this empirical relationship strongly reduced coextinction because the species most likely to lose mutualists depend least on their mutualists. The pattern also reduced the importance of network structure for stability; nested network structure had little effect on coextinction after simulations incorporated the empirically derived relationship between partner diversity and mutualistic dependence. Our results highlight a previously unknown source of stability in mutualistic networks and suggest that differences among species in their mutualistic strategy, rather than network structure, primarily accounts for stability in mutualistic communities.

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