PhD final seminar - NGOs, social capital and environmental citizenship: Negotiating coastal livelihood access in Indonesia
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This is a PhD final seminar. This study argues that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been engaged in social capital revitalization, linking communities to environmental policy making and policy advocacy for enhancing livelihood access of the poor to natural resources. In Indonesia,…
Has the prevalence and demography of shared-time parenting changed following the family law reforms of 2006?
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In many countries, shared-time parenting – where children spend equal or near-equal amounts of time with each parent – is emerging as a new family form following separation or divorce. In 2006, Australia introduced significant legislative reforms that encouraged shared-time parenting and made…
Changing faces and dynamics of rural poverty in Cambodia: Findings from participatory household financial analysis
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Oxfam America’s saving-led microfinance model was conceptualized as an alternative financial service for the rural poor who are underserved by formal financial institutions. On the one hand, it is more advantageous than traditional saving methods of keeping money at home, in terms of security and…
Inequalities in population health: Obesity and mortality
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This talk will describe two pieces of work, the first examining disparities in obesity among men in the US, and the second investigating mortality patterns in rural South Africa over time. More than one-third of US adults were obese in 2007-2008. The first work examines obesity disparities,…
Could changes in reported sex ratios at birth during China’s 1958-1961 famine support the adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis?
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Background: The adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis suggests that when mothers are in poor conditions the sex ratio of their offspring will be biased towards females. Major famines provide opportunities for testing this hypothesis because they lead to the widespread deterioration of living…
The 2013 Web Index - Methodology, Results and Discussion
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Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, the Web Index is the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web’s growth, utility and impact on people and nations. The 2012 Web Index covered 61 developed and developing countries, incorporating indicators that assess the…
Sub-replacement fertility in Kerala, India: Causes & implications
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Professor PS Nair, Department of Population Studies, University of Botswana. Kerala, southernmost state (province) in India, is well known, globally, for the unprecedented fertility transition in the Indian subcontinent. The state has already reached below replacement level fertility in the 1990s…