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  1. Open Access Book: ‘Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries’

    …About the Book Improving learning evidence and outcomes for those most in need in developing countries is at the heart of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal on Education (SDG4). This timely volume brings together contributions on current empirical research and analysis of emerging trends that focus on improving the quality of education through better policy and practice, particularly for those who need improved ‘learning at the botto…

  2. OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes

    …e doing more to enable black working-class students to participate and succeed. Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa makes an original contribution to capabilitarian scholarship: conceptually in theorising a South-based multi-dimensional student well-being higher education matrix and a rich reconceptualisation of learning outcomes, as well as empirically by conducting rigorous, longitudinal in-depth mixed-met…

  3. Call for Papers: Workshop on Gender and Poverty

    …19 and focus on the topic of “Gender and Poverty”. There is no conference fee. Coffee breaks and two lunches will be covered by the CEPR. Due to additional external funding the CEPR can now offer to pay for two nights of accommodation in Salzburg. Unfortunately we cannot offer any subsidy for travel costs. The invited speaker for this workshop is Serene J. Khader (Brooklyn College & CUNY Graduate Center). We invite scholars at all career stages to…

  4. Call for Papers: CAPABILITIES AT WORK: EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ENDEAVOURS

    …y others (Robeyns 2005; Holland 2014), the Capabilities Approach (CA) has been evolving considerably and extending its scope as a conceptual framework for social research. In the last decade, the Environmental Justice (EJ) community has been increasingly suggesting the resort to capabilities as a focus for activist struggles and research endeavours (Schlosberg 2007; Ballet et al. 2013; Holland 2014; Martin 2017; Day 2017). Furthermore, the origina…

  5. SEMINARIO SOBRE DESARROLLO HUMANO EN REGIONES TRANSFRONTERIZAS EDICION 2015

    …romoción de estilos de vida saludables; embarazo adolescente; infecciones reemergentes (mala absorción o intolerancias, Fiebre de las Montañas Rocosas, Dengue y Chikungunya). Sesión programada para el 10 de marzo de 2016 en Hermosillo, Sonora Fecha límite para recepción de propuestas: 11 de enero de 2016 Coordinadores del eje: José Salado (UES) Eduardo Gómez (UES) Humberto Astiazarán (CIAD). Costos de recuperación para publicación de memoria: -Pon…

  6. The Role of Social Policy in Promoting Human Security in the MENA Region

    …the concept of human security within the MENA region. The region has long been marred by protracted conflicts that have a strong multi-dimensional nature. This requires a closer examination of the various threats to social cohesion. Human security proves to be a worthwhile construct to further explore within this context due to its ability to recognise multiple threats – whether from poverty, inequality or political marginalisation. Not only can h…

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  7. Regional networks

    …Africa Network North American Network European Network For a description see below. Francophone Africa Network Francophone Africa has a strong, but informal, regional network that extends to various countries such as Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Madagascar. There are about 10 scientists in each country interested in Human Development and the Capability Approach. However, the network is still an informal gathering of like-minded…

  8. ZIF Summer School 2017 – Universität Bielefeld

    …odels of poverty and offers new perspectives and methods of analysing the relative levels of welfare within and between societies. This summer school will broaden the access to this innovative method of poverty measurement and it will enable early stage social scientists to deepen their understanding of the concept and function of the Fuzzy Set Approach to multidimensional poverty measurement. Theoretical lectures and applied workshops with demons…

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