How to Improve the Efficiency of Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation in China? An Empirical Analysis
In: Journal of poverty: innovations on social, political & economic inequalities, S. 1-19
ISSN: 1540-7608
In: Journal of poverty: innovations on social, political & economic inequalities, S. 1-19
ISSN: 1540-7608
In: Journal of development effectiveness
ISSN: 1943-9407
World Affairs Online
In: Administrative Sciences: open access journal, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 16
ISSN: 2076-3387
The increasing social and environmental challenges, particularly poverty, have brought social entrepreneurship, a highly researched domain, to the attention of academicians. It has emerged as a critical issue in the context of economic development and societal well-being. The current study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis in the field of social entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation to explain the current state, geographical performance, and future research agenda. Utilizing VOS viewer (version 1.6.20) and R Studio software (version 4.3.2), 461 final articles were examined and extracted from the Web of Science database, covering the period from 1998 to 2022. The findings reveal a significant increase in research activity in this field since 2009, indicating a growing demand for it as a solution to social challenges. Notably, the years 2021–2022 witnessed a remarkable 55% surge in research output. The Sustainability Journal ranks first as the most productive source, followed by the Journal of Cleaner Production. The most prolific authors are Nina Kolleck from Germany, David Littlewood, and Diane Holt from the UK. Additionally, this study assesses the geographic distribution of research contributions, highlighting regions with relatively lower research performance, such as South Asian and African countries. Leading in this domain are the UK, Spain, the USA, and European institutions. Co-citation patterns reveal four thematic clusters: (1) dynamics of social entrepreneurship; (2) sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem; (3) social entrepreneurship for social innovation; and (4) integrated sustainable entrepreneurship, shedding light on critical aspects and the intellectual structure of this domain. Finally, keyword co-occurrence analysis identifies emerging research areas, e.g., entrepreneurial development, the role of higher education, enterprise collaboration, inclusive growth, and socio-economic empowerment. This research provides valuable insights for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners committed to achieving sustainable social change.
In: Economic Analysis and Policy, Band 82, S. 220-232
In: The journal of development studies
ISSN: 1743-9140
World Affairs Online
In: Socio-economic review
ISSN: 1475-147X
Abstract
Over the past decades, many European welfare states failed to reduce poverty. We examine two coinciding trends: the inability to lower poverty rates, and the growth of immigrant populations. Immigrants have become the main contributor to population growth in Europe and have higher poverty risks than natives. This contribution quantifies to what extent national poverty rates were driven by population change. We present a Kitagawa–Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition of national poverty rates in 17 western European countries between 2005 and 2019 using EU-SILC data. The effect of shifting EU and non-EU immigrant populations on poverty rates is heterogeneous: while poverty in some countries increased substantially due to compositional changes, for the majority the effect was small or negligible, including in countries with above-average growth of foreign-born populations. Overall, in two-thirds of country–years changes in the population composition were not the main driver of national poverty rates.
In: The journal of development studies
ISSN: 1743-9140
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association
ISSN: 1099-1328
AbstractSocial sustainability is poorly understood and vaguely defined, despite growing appreciation for its relevance as a concept. This article advances our empirical understanding of social sustainability by constructing a global database of 71 indicators across 193 countries and 37 territories between 2016 and 2020. Indicators are flexibly clustered around four dimensions—social inclusion, resilience, social cohesion and process legitimacy—for which we construct measurement indices. A simple empirical analysis—based on correlations and scatterplots—using our database confirms that social sustainability is positively and strongly associated with per capita income; negatively and strongly associated with poverty; and negatively but weakly associated with income inequality. The interactions between dimensions merit further analysis, but our results underscore that social sustainability matters not only in itself but also to reduce poverty. Furthermore, extending access to markets, basic public services and social assistance needs to be complemented with strengthening process legitimacy and social cohesion if inequality is to be reduced.
In: Economic Analysis and Policy, Band 81, S. 99-114
In: Međunarodni problemi: International problems, Band 76, Heft 1, S. 11-32
ISSN: 0025-8555
The phenomenon of energy poverty shows that energy issues, traditionally
linked with international, regional, and national levels of analysis, have
wider economic and political causes that are being manifested at the
community and individual levels as well. Latest energy crisis across the
European continent, coped with some structural factors such are resource
scarcity, energy transition, and war between Russia and Ukraine, emphasized
individualistic consequences of the ongoing energy processes. The fact that
approximately 42 million people in the EU are affected by energy poverty put
the phenomenon of the energy poverty very high at the EU agenda. Clear
connection of this topic with human security concept made the phenomenon of
energy poverty justifiable to be analysed from the people-centred
perspective. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to highlight human
security approach as a solid framework for understanding and analysis of the
energy poverty phenomenon in the EU. Review of the significant academic
knowledge base on this phenomenon, secondary data analysis from the relevant
European surveys related to this issue, and analysis of adequate EU policies
and practices combating energy poverty will serve to outline
state-of-playwhen it comes to the energy poverty and human security nexus at
the EU level.
In: Routledge textbooks in development economics
Social Protection Systems: a deeper understanding -- The Genesis of Designing and Implementing Cash Transfers -- Assessing Supply Capacity of Services Providers -- Reaching the Poorest: Using Targeting Mechanisms to Focus Resources on Vulnerable People -- Targeting Engineering: Cost Analysis -- From being Targeted to becoming a Beneficiary -- Providing Cash to the Poor and Vulnerable -- Track Conditionalities Compliance to Increase Human Capital -- Case Management: Empowering Poor and Vulnerable People -- Monitoring: Implementing Actions while Achieving Goals.
In: Journal of European social policy
ISSN: 1461-7269
Despite the rise in employment, consistently high EU-average poverty rates continue to generate debates about the factors that explain the level and changes in the relative poverty rate, both within and across countries. Assuming a strong negative correlation between poverty and employment, the article investigates the role of four mechanisms responsible for this blurred relationship. Using decomposition analysis and macro-level regression analysis, we investigate the extent to which (i) the distribution of employment across households with different levels of work intensity, (ii) the expansion of non-standard work, (iii) the change in the effectiveness of social welfare systems, and (iv) the change in median income and the corresponding shift in the poverty threshold have contributed to changes in relative income poverty in the last decades. We found that employment growth benefits poverty reduction, but this positive effect was partially offset by the precarious characteristics of some newly created jobs. If the distribution of jobs had favoured the jobless more in the pre-crisis period, the relative income poverty rate would have been lower. Although the share of persons in jobless households decreased during the recovery years, their risk of poverty increased due to the retrenchment of social transfers during and after the Great Recession. Furthermore, the use of a floating threshold, which is linked to changes in median income, underestimates the strength of the relationships between poverty, employment and social transfers: when the poverty threshold is kept fixed, not only do the dynamics of poverty look different, but the estimated coefficients are considerably larger.
In: Chinese public administration review, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 57-71
ISSN: 1539-6754
The exploration of policy network has consistently gained popularity for its use in various contemporary public administration and policy reports. Therefore, this research aims to identify and analyze the extent of research developments regarding Policy Network in the past 37 years, from 1985 to 2022 using bibliometric data. The procedure comprised collecting data from the SCOPUS database with the keyword "Policy Network," followed by bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer software. The results showed that several studies related to the keyword have been carried out on various important issues in society, including environmental, health, economic, poverty, national security, and tourism management. The term policy network occupied a central position and was widely discussed in previous reports. Furthermore, the majority of these reports were influenced by leading authors and published in top-tier journals in the field of public administration.
World history suffers from a paucity of clearly articulated, convincing explanations. While the rise of postmodernism and challenges to Eurocentrism did lead to some important correctives, the pendulum has swung too far the other direction, with a corresponding danger of 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater'. We need careful, theoretically informed debates about ways of organizing world history. What constitutes a good historical explanation? What should guide historians to choose relevant facts? Which theoretical schools could be made useful, and to what ends? These questions are especially relevant to the main topic of this book: the 'great divergence' between the west and the rest of the world, and how this historical rupture is to be explained. The book provides extensive critical analyses of some of the key claims in world history, analyzing their strengths as well as their major weaknesses-too often rooted in insufficient familiarity of historians with theories they discard. It also historicizes the field and the debates to partly account for what caused some theories to become more influential and others to fall into oblivion-despite the fact that the more influential frameworks are seriously flawed and some of the more marginalized ideas are more coherent and plausible. The book offers insights regarding the theoretical and political relevance of older debates about the transition to capitalism and historical materialism. Three major schools of thought in world history are critically examined through an in-depth theoretical and comparative analysis that has not been undertaken elsewhere: the so-called 'California School', World Systems Analysis, and Marxist theories of history, capitalism, and the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Murphy argues that, despite some of the more recent criticisms of older approaches to world history, the older theories remain indispensable for the writing of world history and for coming to terms with issues of global poverty, inequality and eco-catastrophe
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