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Social Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 9

September 2021 - 34 articles

Cover Story: Using a three-dimensional child wellbeing approach, we argue that cash transfer programs (CTPs) have helped extremely poor families in Pakistan to sustain their basic dietary needs but failed to address the distinctive vulnerabilities of children, including their relational wellbeing and social status. Focus groups with children revealed a sophisticated understanding of their family’s poverty as rooted within the broader socioeconomic context. They were keenly aware of the CTPs’ inability to address their social exclusion and meet their psychosocial needs, such as feeling secure and enjoying childhood. This suggests that social protection as currently conceptualized through CTPs is far from being a comprehensive policy for children’s wellbeing. Interventions are needed that provide economic security for caregivers and acknowledge children’s rights as citizens. View this paper.
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Articles (34)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,861 Views
14 Pages

4 September 2021

This paper analyses data from a qualitative study undertaken with children and their families in two cash transfer programmes (CTPs) in Pakistan. Using a three-dimensional child well-being model that distinguishes material, relational and subjective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,853 Views
15 Pages

4 September 2021

Weak or unstructured stakeholder participation in higher education curricula development still remains a problem in Armenia. Change in outdated curricula development processes is needed, as they often do not meet students’ needs; do not adopt innovat...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
16,002 Views
43 Pages

2 September 2021

While the benefits of undergraduate research experiences for students from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups have been well explored, more research is needed to better understand how students of color access these experiences. We summarize a non-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,635 Views
15 Pages

30 August 2021

The expansion of education all over the world is expected to improve economic and social development. However, the oversupply of educated labor force might bring unfavorable consequences for the labor market and long-run growth prospects. In this reg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,333 Views
15 Pages

30 August 2021

Since 1945, Argentine politics has been largely defined by Peronism, a populist movement established by General Juan Perón. While the ideology of Peronism has shifted and swerved over its seven-decade history, its central emphasis on loyalty has rema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,055 Views
15 Pages

Food and Nutrition Myths among Future Secondary School Teachers: A Problem of Trust in Inadequate Sources of Information

  • Vanessa P. Moreno-Rodríguez,
  • Roberto Sánchez-Cabrero,
  • Alfonso Abad-Mancheño,
  • Almudena Juanes-García and
  • Fernando Martínez-López

28 August 2021

The Internet and social networks are full of nutrition information, offering people guidance to make healthy eating choices. These sources always present themselves as a gateway to reliable information on healthy eating; however, too often this is no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,267 Views
16 Pages

27 August 2021

Research on refugees and asylum seekers largely focuses on the negative impacts that forced migration has on well-being. Though most individuals do not experience poor long-term mental health because of forced migration, less attention has been given...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,703 Views
15 Pages

Enabling Artificial Intelligence Adoption through Assurance

  • Laura Freeman,
  • Abdul Rahman and
  • Feras A. Batarseh

25 August 2021

The wide scale adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will require that AI engineers and developers can provide assurances to the user base that an algorithm will perform as intended and without failure. Assurance is the safety valve for reliable,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,500 Views
13 Pages

25 August 2021

This article revisits the traditionally jittery Latvian–Russian relations during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of securitization. Though the pandemic might have offered less space for confrontation and possible prospects for differentiation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
19,226 Views
13 Pages

24 August 2021

Although burnout is a widely studied topic, there is still much to learn about this symptom during a pandemic crisis like the one caused by COVID-19. Moreover, and according to the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory, the relation between personal re...

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