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Everyday sanitation: a comparative study of mumbai's informal settlements

Dr Colin Mcfarlane | Human Geography | 01 July 2009

There is widespread recognition that sanitation in cities in the global south has been neglected in the social sciences and international development community. This is despite the importance of sanitation in cities, particularly for the poor, for he ...

Social protection and disability: policy lessons from vietnam

Professor Nora Groce | 01 October 2012

People with disabilities (pwds) represent a disproportionately high proportion of the world's poor. Recognising the reciprocal relationship between disability and poverty, leading to increased vulnerability and social exclusion, disability has been f ...

Cross-national comparison of quality of life at older ages in europe

Dr Gopalakrishnan Netuveli | Sociology | 01 June 2005

Early old age is potentially a time of positive quality of life and has implications for commerce, policy makers and voluntary organisations. Although studies are emerging that describe the determinants of positive quality of life in older ages in th ...

On the change of poverty and undernutrition in rural india

Dr Katsushi Imai | Economics | 01 July 2010

The main objective is to shed new light on the empirical puzzle: why per capita calorie consumption has declined across all households with different income levels in both rural and urban areas despite high rates of income and consumption growth in r ...

Welfare reform in the usa and the uk: an interdisciplinary analysis

Dr Anne Daguerre | Socio Legal Studies | 29 December 2011

The research project compares the evolution of welfare reform legislation in order to analyse the new politics of conditional rights in two liberal/residual welfare states, the united states and the uited kingdom. It also aims to understand the impli ...

The 'walkable city': the dimensions of walking and overlapping walks of life

Dr Jennie Middleton | Human Geography | 01 May 2007

Despite a significant amount of policy and public interest in walking at both national and local levels, there is very little research on pedestrian movement. Much policy discussion assumes that walking is a homogeneous and largely self-evident means ...

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