University of Groningen
Breaking the cycle of poverty
Bosáková, Lucia
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10.33612/diss.171653947
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Bosáková, L. (2021). Breaking the cycle of poverty: routes to counteract intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic health differences. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.171653947
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Breaking the cycle of poverty
Routes to counteract intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic health differences
Lucia Bosáková 7th of July 2021 1. Education makes people live healthier and longer.
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2. Poor education is a flywheel of the poverty cycle, but the quality education is an emergency exit out of it.
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3. The more satisfaction pupils get from school, the more likely is a favourable educational trajectory for them.
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4. If we want social policies to be effective in combatting poverty and health inequalities, the policies must be co-created by those to whom they apply.
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5. Increasing employment opportunities for segregated Roma improves their health.
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6. Public-private partnerships are an excellent route to break the cycle of poverty for especially disadvantaged groups such as segregated Roma.
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7. Poverty is a complex phenomenon. Solutions for its causes and for its consequences should account for this, and thus typically have multiple components.
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8. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
Nelson Mandela
9. We cannot blame the victims of poverty for being poor. We cannot continue to support stereotypes and prejudices against the poor.
Ruby K. Payne
10. One flower does not make the days happy, but it talks about what is not far away.
Roma proverb
11. Remember, slow change is still change.
Hans Rosling
12. Educating girls has proven to be one of the world´s best–ever ideas.
Hans Rosling
13. Science is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
