Inclusion Matters in Africa

Das, Maitreyi Bordia; Espinoza, Sabina Anne

doi:10.1596/32528

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“…Barron et al's (2023) framework is particularly relevant in that provides a sense of aggregation grounded in the existing literature. Their choice of components closely aligns with the World Bank's initial social development strategy (World Bank, 2005), recent work on inclusion (Das & Espinoza, 2014) and other authors' emphases on empowerment (Dempsey et al, 2011), participation (Littig & Griessler, 2005) and equity and safety (Ballet et al, 2020).…”

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Social sustainability, poverty and income: An empirical exploration

Cuesta,

Madrigal,

Pecorari

2024

J of Intl Development

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Social sustainability is poorly understood and vaguely defined, despite growing appreciation for its relevance as a concept. This article advances our empirical understanding of social sustainability by constructing a global database of 71 indicators across 193 countries and 37 territories between 2016 and 2020. Indicators are flexibly clustered around four dimensions—social inclusion, resilience, social cohesion and process legitimacy—for which we construct measurement indices. A simple empirical analysis—based on correlations and scatterplots—using our database confirms that social sustainability is positively and strongly associated with per capita income; negatively and strongly associated with poverty; and negatively but weakly associated with income inequality. The interactions between dimensions merit further analysis, but our results underscore that social sustainability matters not only in itself but also to reduce poverty. Furthermore, extending access to markets, basic public services and social assistance needs to be complemented with strengthening process legitimacy and social cohesion if inequality is to be reduced.

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Section: Existing Definitions Of Social Sustainability: Why Is It So ...mentioning

confidence: 89%

Social sustainability, poverty and income: An empirical exploration

Cuesta,

Madrigal,

Pecorari

2024

J of Intl Development

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“…We retained social cohesion, participation, and agency and added empowerment. Our definition of social inclusion aligns closely with World Bank [51,56]. By adding empowerment-defined below-we included a feature emphasized by others such as [20,57] as necessary to maintain social sustainability.…”

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Exposure to Climatic Risks and Social Sustainability in Vietnam

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This article constructed two spatial indices to better understand the interactions between social sustainability (an important but poorly defined concept) and exposure to climatic and environmental risks. The indices, and the Choropleth maps used to represent them, can be combined and operationalized across different country contexts to yield insights into how climate change and social vulnerabilities intersect and can be jointly addressed. The two indices were here applied to Vietnam, a country particularly exposed to climate change. While Vietnam is well-known for its vulnerability to changing temperatures and rising sea levels, there was huge variation within and between regions for these two risks. The analysis also found enormous spatial variation within the risks from precipitation, drought, deforestation, and air pollution. Social inclusion generally outperformed resilience and social cohesion, as well as empowerment in Vietnam. Our findings were robust for choices of indicators, weights, and aggregation specifications.

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“…[11] defines social exclusion as "a state in which PLOS ONE individuals are unable to participate fully in economic, social, political and cultural life, as well as the process leading to and sustaining such a state." [8,12] emphasize the relative processual nature of exclusion, underscoring the terms in which individuals and social groups are excluded from taking part in society. [13,14] more explicitly focus on the presence of discriminatory practices such as racism, xenophobia, and ageism that hinder individuals' participation in economic, social, and political life.…”

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“…Our conceptual framework places emphasis on the relative, multidimensional, and dynamic features of exclusion, identifying specific groups that are particularly vulnerable to exclusion based on identity, circumstances, and socioeconomic conditions. This approach benefits from theories of social exclusion that focus on notions of social exclusion as a lack of participation in society with dignity [4][5][6], and more recent studies, which highlight processes and equity considerations [7][8][9]. Our empirical strategy draws on the most credible data sources estimating vulnerable population groups across countries and develops a protocol to minimize double counting.…”

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Social exclusion concepts, measurement, and a global estimate

Cuesta,

López-Noval,

Niño-Zarazúa

2024

PLoS ONE

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Multiple estimates exist of global monetary and multidimensional poverty, but populations at risk of social exclusion still lack a worldwide estimate. This paper fills this gap by providing the first estimates of the share and number of populations at risk of social exclusion worldwide. The paper contributes to the literature in three important respects. First, it develops a conceptual framework of social exclusion that emphasizes the relative, multidimensional, and dynamic features of exclusion. Second, it proposes a macro-counting methodology that allows measuring populations at risk of exclusion based on identity, circumstances, and socioeconomic conditions, while advancing a protocol to avoid double counting of individuals at risk of social exclusion. Third, the empirical strategy provides to the best of our knowledge, the first estimates of populations at risk of social exclusion by dimensions of exclusion on a global and regional scale. Overall, we estimate that between 2.33 and 2.43 billion people—roughly 32 per cent of the global population—are at risk of social exclusion. The South Asia and East Asia and Pacific regions contain 1.3 billion such people, with India and China alone home to 840 million of them. Meanwhile, 52 per cent of sub-Saharan Africa’s population is vulnerable to exclusion, the greatest share of any region. Our findings have important policy implications. While antipoverty policies can support household consumption and smooth its volatility among the poor, they are unlikely to address social exclusion stemming from ethnic, racial, or gender discrimination. Therefore, addressing exclusion necessitates a suite of multiple interventions tailored to distinct groups and sustained over time.

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Inclusion Matters in Africa

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

Social sustainability, poverty and income: An empirical exploration

Social sustainability, poverty and income: An empirical exploration

Exposure to Climatic Risks and Social Sustainability in Vietnam

Social exclusion concepts, measurement, and a global estimate

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