...Ramazan Ahmadi; Suat Kolukırık Purpose This research applies a sociological approach to analyze poverty in Bamyan, Afghanistan and seeks to understand its root causes, contributing factors, impacts and the possible interventions to eradicate poverty. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methods...

... to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence . Economic sociology Social policy Poverty Welfare state Inequality Redistribution Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Universitàe...

... inequality and poverty. Global factors like oil price volatility, financial market fluctuations and economic uncertainties exacerbate these issues by destabilizing economies, disrupting investment flows and weakening social welfare systems. Vulnerable populations face intensified challenges as geopolitical...

...Kumudu Nanayakkara Wasam Mudage; Nipuni Weerasinghe; Mahesh Madusanka; Candauda Arachchige Saliya; Anuja Akalanka Lokeshwara; C. Dilshanie Jayatissa Purpose While extensive research has explored poverty in various dimensions, there remains a notable dearth of studies focusing on success stories...

.../legalcode Money meanings Cash transfers Poverty Minimum income Social policy In contemporary discourses on poverty, the public debate predominantly centres around the inadequacy of resources necessary to sustain a dignified life. This inadequacy is commonly interpreted as a financial...

...Célia Bouchet; Nicolas Duvoux Purpose Drawing on the French case, this article examines the size and scope of poverty resulting from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the diversity of poverty's manifestations and the role of public action (among other actors) in addressing...

...Benjamin Aye Simon; Isaac Khambule Purpose The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-induced declining economic prospects and accompanying economic shocks present socioeconomic vulnerabilities for developing economies at the tranches of poverty, unemployment and minimal social security. South Africa...

...Emanuela Chiodo Purpose This paper has a dual purpose: on one side, it analyzes what types of solidarity and social relations are implemented as social support resources applied to actions aiming at the empowerment of children living in poverty. On the other, it investigates on the role...

... they internalised how they perceived being shamed by others in their networks but also engaged in shaming and at the level of wider society whereby they recounted how they felt shamed by government agencies and the media. Originality/value While a number of researchers have explored how shame stems from poverty...

...Katrin Gasior; Chrysa Leventi; Michael Noble; Gemma Wright; Helen Barnes The paper aims to assess the effects of taxes and benefits on inequality and poverty in five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia. The authors use newly developed micro-simulation...

... to their children's needs by resorting to privatized entitlement. Structured interviews were conducted between 2016 and 2017 with 90 mothers “providing in poverty” from seven marginalized categories in Israel. The interviews were analyzed using a grounded theory perspective. Three negotiation positions...

...Natalia N. Skiter; Nataliya V. Ketko; Aleksey F. Rogachev; Elena G. Gushchina; Elena M. Vitalyeva Purpose The article considers the causes of such a fundamental problem like poverty. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyzed the interdependence of poverty and the development...

...Benjamin Fuchs Social stratification determinants, particularly social class, have a significant effect. However, their effect is weaker than the effect of life course risks. Contrary to the prediction of individualisation theory, the poverty-triggering impact of life course risks varies...

... Poverty Social policy Since the early 2000s, Europe’s welfare states have largely followed a social investment approach (Bonoli and Natali, 2012 ; Cantillon and Vandenbroucke, 2014 ; Morel et al., 2012). In contrast to “passive” or “reparative” social protection schemes, the approach...

... employment. Poverty Welfare state Informal employment CEE countries Social characteristics Informal employment constitutes a relevant and problematic phenomenon in European societies in general and in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries in particular (Renooy et al., 2004...

.... The UK was one of the last countries in the EU to accept usage of the term social exclusion, and this was only as a consequence of “poverty” becoming unacceptable at a political level (Walker, 1998 ; Burchardt et al., 2002). In one sense this observation relates the shift towards the term...

... to reduce poverty. Design/methodology/approach – The authors utilize qualitative interviews with 30 members of a living wage employer certification program in Vancouver, Canada as a case study to explore campaign participation by the business community and business case outcomes. Findings...

...Donald Simpson; Eunice Lumsden; Rory McDowall Clark Purpose – Several ideas exist about social justice and how inequalities can be tackled to help families and children in poverty. The Coalition government released the UK’s first Child Poverty Strategy in 2011. Pervaded by neoliberal ideology...

.... First, CSR is seen as a western version of a long standing philanthropic tradition, that is rooted in religion. The comparison between CSR and indigenous religious practices discredits CSR as a vulgarized form of giving that seeks to take more than give. Second, the surmount challenges of poverty...

... trafficking (CST) in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is an extremely complex problem, deeply rooted in historical injustice, gender inequality and poverty. In addition to the complexities of the child trafficking issue, the organisations that seek to combat CST are themselves not always a united force...