THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC RELEVANCE OF TRADITIONAL THRIFT AND CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN SOCIETY by ROBERT MARTINS EZE

“…This study recommended that the government should provide more funds to strengthen the thrift and credit associations to expand their scope to accommodate more members and reduce unemployment and poverty in Nigeria. The paper further recommended that membership in thrift and credit associations be open to vulnerable members of society irrespective of gender, age, and ethnicity. …”
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Aspirations professionnelles de jeunes bacheliers au Cameroun : l’influence de la pratique de l’orientation scolaire revisitée by Dong Nguetsop Frosine Merveille, Innocent Fozing

“…This study questions the causes of unemployment of youth in Cameroon and focused on poor assistance to students in the consolidation of their professional aspirations, guarantee of socio-professional insertion. …”
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THE IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC FACTORSON POVERTY REDUCTION IN LAMDONG PROVINCE by Hồ Quang Thanh, Hoàng Trọng Vinh, Trần Tuấn

“…We use a multiple regression model optimized by means of BMA (Bayesian Model Average) in which several macroeconomic variables includingincome, unemployment (employment), inflation and quality of human resources in Lamdong are employed. …”
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Determinants of agricultural employment during the COVID-19 pandemic: A spatial analysis of Brazilian municipalities. by Patrícia Batistella, Luan Marca, Fernanda Castilhos França de Vasconcellos, Eduardo Rodrigues Sanguinet, Augusto Mussi Alvim, Adelar Fochezatto

“…The global economy has experienced significant downturns, with unemployment rates reaching unprecedented highs for this century. …”
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Leadership in rural congregations and communities: an exploration in the North-Eastern Free State by P. C. J. Nel, W. J. Schoeman

“…Over the past few decades, rural communities have experienced many changes in terms of depopulation, the decline of the rural economy, poverty, and unemployment. Congregations in rural communities and their leadership cannot escape these changes that affect their functioning and existence. …”
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Mulheres trabalhadoras em uma fábrica recuperada: mudanças e permanências na organização e gestão do trabalho by Roseli de Fátima Corteletti, Jacob Carlos Lima

“…The industrial restructuring of the 1990s in Brazil forced many workers to seek “new” work strategies to face unemployment. Among these strategies, the self-management constituted a possibility to avoid informality and guarantee income. …”
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COVID-19’s gendered effect on subjective wellbeing in MENA countries by Ghada Barsoum, Mahdi Majbouri

“…Women experienced higher increases in unemployment rates than men in all four countries, despite their already higher rates prior to the pandemic. …”
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Life quality in Russia: a brief overview by D. A. Ermilina

“…The analysis of the main macroeconomic indicators affecting the quality of life in our country, such as gross domestic product, inflation rate, unemployment rate, the volume of credit resources issued, household consumption expenditures, is carried out. …”
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The 'Rush Hour' of Life: Insecurities and Strains in Early Life Phases as a Challenge for a Life Course-Oriented, Sustainable Social Policy by Ute Klammer

“…Empirical data proves that, in Germany, the majority of flexibility risks in the labour market (such as fixed-time contracts, temp work, unemployment etc.) are taken by the young generation and by unskilled workers. …”
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Des femmes, des hommes et des rumeurs. Hommes machos et femmes stigmatisées/antes dans une ville de tourisme sexuel by Denise Brennan

“…In this sexual economy, men even can flaunt their unemployment. Their laziness and/or dependency are recast as macho. …”
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MANAGERIAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL CAREER ASPIRATIONS OF STUDENTS – THE CASE OF BIH by Bahrija Umihanić, Sabina Đonlagić, Ana Marija Alfirević

“… Youth entrepreneurship is becoming an attractive topic, even for the wider public, especially in transitional countries, characterized by high unemployment rates. Governments often try to stimulate the entrepreneurial activities of younger population. …”
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Exploring Individual Preferences on Protecting Environment: A Binominal Logistic Regression by Esra Karapınar Kocağ

“…However, significant effects of age, gender, education, unemployment, along with further significant explanatory variables are expected to be useful to make appropriate policies for a greener future.…”
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Az Europai Unio fejlesztesi forrasai felhasznalasanak ertekelese a regionalis operativ programok kereteben (Evaluation of Using EU Funding Sources in the Regional Operational Progr... by Éva Pálmai

“…Cohesion policy should continue to play a critical role in these difficult times – when Europe need to exit from a deep crisis and reduce unemployment and poverty, while switching to a low-carbon economy – in order to deliver smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, while promoting harmonious development of the Union and its regions by reducing regional disparities. …”
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Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Environmental Management and Poverty Reduction in Western Uganda by Eton, Marus, Ayiga, Natal, Moses, Agaba, Fabian, Mwosi, Benard, Patrick Ogwel

“…The study further suggest that SMEs can resolve problems of poverty and unemployment if they can access cheap capital. The study therefore recommends that government should prioritize SME sector in budgets to enhance its contribution to economic growth and poverty reduction.…”
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Digitisation and the Future of Work by Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory, Ulrich Zierahn

“…This technological change has sparked a public debate about possible job losses and the threat of mass unemployment. From a scientific perspective, this is clearly exaggerated for four reasons: Firstly, the technological potential for automating jobs is often clearly overestimated. …”
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Technologies on International Relations by A. D. Korobkov

“…The socio-economic aspect includes the consequences of automated capitalism on world politics, the rise in unemployment, the emergence of a "hopeless" class, the polarization of society, and more. …”
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PUBLIC POLICY AND INEQUALITY IN NIGERIA: AN INTERROGATION by MOSES DANJUMA BOT, MARIA ELEYI IGOCHE, ANOMNIHE UDOKA TIMDIR

“…The study also recommends for an increase in funding for social safety net programs, such as unemployment benefit, food assistance, in order to help reduce poverty and inequality. …”
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Examine the Role of Psychological Resilience in Predicting Social and Professional Performance in Patients with Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, and Rheumatism by Ahmad S Alsheikh Al, Ashraf Alqudah

“…Regression analyses were used to examine the amount of variance predicted by psychological resilience in terms of the following variables of social and professional functions: relationships, communication, social activities, entertainment activities, life skills, employment-based job functions, and unemployment-based job functions. Results revealed that psychological resilience positively predicted social and occupational functions among all illnesses. …”
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FOSTERING AGROPRENEURSHIP PRACTICE IN NIGERIA: A LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE by Olamitunji DAKARE

“…The review is in line with the need to create sustainable development through agropreneurship initiatives: in an economy presently facing a high rate of unemployment, extreme poverty, poor earnings from foreign exchange, and insufficiency of food items, this article argues for the need to adopt an overarching agriculture value chain to ensure a rapid industrial and economic development across Nigeria. …”

Social welfare in the Greco-Roman world as a background for early Christian practice by P. Lampe

“…Various social-welfare tasks are touched upon – health care; care for the elderly, widows, orphans and invalids; the patron-client system as countermeasure to unemployment; distribution of land, grain, meals and money; alms, donations, foundations as well as education – with hardly any one of them being especially tailored to the poor. …”
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