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INFORM: Closing the Gap Between Formal and Informal Institutions in the Balkans, 2016-2019
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Southeast Europe has seen a century of continuous transformation and “transition” – the disappearance and emergence of states, political and legal systems, ideologies, institutions, and social classes. This has been accompanied by a stability of social practices resistant to change. Shaken by radically...
OECD Environment Statistics, 1950-2020
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The OECD Environment Statistics contains selected indicators for monitoring progress towards green growth to support policy making and inform the public at large. The dataset covers OECD countries as well as BRIICS economies, and selected countries when possible.
Within UKDS.Stat, the OECD Environment...
Left behind in transition? Poverty, social networks and social support amongst older people in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
The qualitative research was conducted in order to illuminate older people’s quality of life from the perspective of older people themselves. The aim was to paint a picture of the lives of older people and to gain insight into how older people in the region have been affected by the massive societal changes of the last 15 years and how they are coping with the impacts of...
Digital Finance and Access to Credit in the Post-Covid Informal and Domestic Economies of Rural Western Kenya, 2021
Following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic the over-indebted Kenyan state was unable to stabilise a nose-diving economy. Faced with the risk of bankruptcy and widespread defaults on loans, financial credit providers such as banks and microfinance institutions restricted access to credit. The resulting credit-crunch forced many Kenyans to turn to digital lenders and friends...