In this dissertation I analyze the development of contemporary US welfare policy with special consideration given to the importance of race and gender. In the introductory chapter I outline how the development of the American welfare state has continuously neglected the needs of…
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The place of inquiry implemented a School-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (SWPBIS) plan in 2016 with the goal of building a positive organizational climate while reducing the number of discipline infractions and office referrals. Although interventions and suppo…
This thesis investigates the effects of income inequality on Total Factor Productivity (TFP). The thesis also aims at empirically exploring the specific channels through which those effects transit. To this end, two levels of empirical analysis are carried out with time series c…
Financial insecurity, inadequate family nutrition, poor health, and low self-esteem are some of the challenges faced by rural women in Southern Nigeria due to lack of income. Although the advantages of microfinance in developing countries are well documented, little is known abo…
The effectiveness of Grameen Bank (GB) programs in promoting empowerment, as indicated by several variables, among its women participants was studied. The variables included income generation, decision-making concerning the use and distribution of household resources, participat…
The first essay investigates the relationship between natural disasters and poverty at the district level in Indonesia. System generalized method of moments (GMM) and regional fixed effects models are employed, and the results suggest that damage to manufacturing facilities, hos…
In the 1980s, health sector reforms for improving the efficiency and quality of health systems began in many developing countries. Reforms initially were part of broader policies known as Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), whose main objective was to enhance economic growth …
Seventy percent of Nigerians are poor and live below the poverty level, despite abundant endowment of natural and human resources in Nigeria. Since independence, Nigeria has been plagued with ineffective leadership, which has failed to translate successfully the nation's resourc…
The period since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis has witnessed many reforms in the economic structure and financial landscape in Asian economies that have increasingly influenced the global economy and financial discourse. The extents of these reforms not only involve macroecono…
Intrigued by the heterogeneous development of rural and urban China, persistent poverty in rural ethnic minority regions, and dilemmatic quality compulsory education provided for ethnic regions as a key to poverty alleviation, this dissertation sets out to examine the rural appr…
The primary research question that guides this dissertation is: What is the relationship between neoliberalism and welfare governance? In contrast to the idea that market reforms bring the destruction of social welfare provision, I argue that market reforms are actually accompan…
Scholars have disputed the interpretation of Amos 2:6b.The majority of scholars stress the connection between the action of selling people and the fact of their poverty and indebtedness. They use this connection to link the verb 'to sell' of the poor in Amos 2:6, and 'to purchas…
The first chapter discerns between two alternative objective functions for not-for-profit Microfinance Institutions (MFIs): profit maximization and poverty targeting. I use the strategic branch location choices of the two largest MFIs in a mature, concentrated market to reveal t…
This dissertation is comprised of four distinct essays in the general fields of empirical development and transition economics. The first essay concerns poverty change in Indonesia over the period 1984–1996 and measures the extent to which poverty change is correlated with overa…
There is a dearth of research on health care demand in developing countries, and even less that focuses on the poor, especially the urban poor. This study uses panel data from the Urban Livelihoods Study (ULS) to estimate the probability of seeking care and mean expenditures for…
This study investigates women's individual and collective responses to the processes of structural adjustment in Nigeria. Structural adjustment, or SAP, is the package of macro economic conditionalities imposed on African economies in crisis by the International Monetary Fund an…
In Syria, 3.5 million are classified as rural poor. Rural women and children, suffer the most from poverty and its physical and social deprivations. A study compared differences in child growth and nutrition in three rural livelihood groups: a ‘barley-livestock’ group, an ‘olive…
The rational comprehensive approach to planning has proven unable to reduce urban poverty due either to the exclusion or to the inappropriate inclusion of indigenous knowledge in planning practice. As an alternative, this dissertation analyzes (1) the capacity of local residents…
This study examines how rabbinic texts from the land of Israel explain and respond to poverty. Through this investigation, I also analyze images of the poor in this literature, asking whether the rabbis considered poor persons to be full participants in communal religious life. …