Blar i Faculty of Social Sciences på emneord "Poverty"
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"All they want is to be treated well": Public health care in the rural Ecuadorian Andes
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)Abstract In thesis I describe the meeting between biomedical health care and indigenous patients in rural Ecuadorian Andes. I show how biomedical conceptualization of health and good treatment differs from local understandings. ... -
Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation: Effects on Targeting Women in Developing Countries
(Master thesis, 2009-12-01)In this thesis I assess the problems and solutions microfinance institutions face when entering a rural credit market characterized by information asymmetry and low degree of enforcement possibilities. Bangladesh and the ... -
Fremtidig fattigdomsforskning rettet mot Sør
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Is aid contributing to poverty reduction? An analysis of the poverty-efficiency of Norwegian aid
(Master thesis, 2013-02-01)This master thesis aims at assessing the poverty- efficiency of the current Norwegian aid allocation. Is Norwegian aid allocated in a way that has the maximum impact on poverty reduction? I use panel regression and a model ... -
A methodological approach to "best practices"
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The polyscopic landscape of povert research. "State of the art" in International Poverty Research. An overview and 6 in-depth studies.
(Research report, 2005)In August 2004 the Research Council of Norway announced tenders for a “State-of-the-art”report within international poverty research, with special focus on institutions and rights. TheResearch Council wanted the report to ... -
Poverty dynamics among the Dalits of Tarai
(Master thesis, 2013-09-02)The literature suggests that links between social identity and economic outcomes can induce poverty among groups with low social status. This seems to be true in Nepal where Dalits, the group at the bottom of the caste ... -
Poverty production: a different approach to poverty understanding
(Chapter, 2004)Poverty understanding and poverty research can be said to have gone throughroughly three phases: Tale-telling, studies with a client focus as well as developmentresearch, and knowledge building about poverty reduction. ... -
The Priviliged and the Poor. Being Rich amid the "lazy ignorant"
(Master thesis, 2009)The segregation of the privileged from the poor is found, produced and reproduced at several levels simultaneously. To notice who did what where, and with whom, was essential as I tried to learn the ways of my informants. ...