Michael Noble
Biographic Data
| ID | 267074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Noble |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Noble |
| SIGNATURE | NOBLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Adaptive social protection in Indonesia: Stress‐testing the effect of a natural disaster on poverty and vulnerability
Indonesia is among the countries with the highest exposure to natural disasters, and risks are expected to increase due to climate change. Natural disasters and other shocks require well‐developed social protection systems that can cushion the economic consequences for those most vulnerable to these events. International stakeholders advocate for ‘Adaptive Social Protection’ which links social policy with strategies on disaster risk reduction and…
The Entanglement of Philosophy, Politics and the Occult: The Hidden Secret of early Post-Avicennan Thought in the Islamic East
By the thirteenth century, philosophy, politics and occult science had become deeply entangled in the Persianate Islamic world. Two of the greatest luminaries in this intellectual milieu were Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.1210) and Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Ibn Ḥabash Ibn Amīrak al-Suhrawardī (d.1191/2), who at one point were fellow students of philosophy under a certain Majd al-Dīn al-Jīlī in Marāgha in northeastern Iran. Both subsequently sought royal patr…
The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in five African countries
Purpose The paper aims to assess the effects of taxes and benefits on inequality and poverty in five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia. Design/methodology/approach The authors use newly developed micro-simulation models to analyse the distribution and composition of incomes. Findings The study's results suggest that income-based measures result in higher levels of poverty and inequality than consumption-based m…
Neighbourhood change and spatial inequalities in Cape Town
Capturing the dynamics of population change in urban areas necessitates access to geographically fine-grained and temporally consistent data for several time points. Such data are generally not available and they must be created using standard population data which cannot usually be compared across time periods. In this paper, the focus is on changing spatial inequalities in Cape Town, South Africa. This paper details an approach to generation of…
The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in six African countries
This paper assesses the effects of public policies on income taxes and benefits in six African countries. The comparative analysis focuses on the distribution and composition of incomes and assesses the effect of these policies on inequality and poverty. The results are based on newly developed microsimulation models for Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia. They highlight differences in tax and benefit systems among th…
Lone Motherhood in South Africa: Some Methodological Challenges and Policy Imperatives
In this paper a working definition of lone motherhood in the South African context is presented. Whilst rejecting any assumption that lone motherhood is necessarily experienced as an identity, it is argued that the category of lone motherhood has analytical value as it exposes the circumstances faced by women who care for children without a partner or spouse present. The working definition is operationalised using household survey data and certai…
From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends
For the authors of From Gods to God, the text of the Hebrew Bible is a rich archaeological site in which exquisite artefacts of Israel's lost oral tradition await discovery by the tools of literary
Ring of fire: Socially perceived necessities in informal urban settlements in South Africa
This paper explores which items people living in South African informal urban settlements regard as essential for an acceptable standard of living, in the context of the high levels of service delivery protests in urban areas. Comparisons are made with people in rural former homeland areas which are shown to have similar levels of deprivation and service delivery dissatisfaction and yet have few such protests. People in informal urban areas rated…
Does Widespread Lack Undermine the Socially Perceived Necessities Approach to Defining Poverty? Evidence from South Africa
The socially perceived necessities or 'consensual' approach to defining and measuring poverty is based on an assumption that it is possible to obtain a collective view from society on the necessities for an acceptable standard of living. The enforced lack of the necessities due - typically - to lack of resources can be regarded as poverty. The validity of the approach has been questioned on a number of grounds including the argument that people's…
Using Indicators of Multiple Deprivation to Demonstrate the Spatial Legacy of Apartheid in South Africa
Recent Social Policy Developments in Africa
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Global Social Policy, 10(1), April 2010 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2010 G. Wright & M. Noble
Social Assistance and Dependency in South Africa: An Analysis of Attitudes to Paid Work and Social Grants
Despite the absence of an unemployment grant in South Africa, there is growing concern that other social assistance provision might nevertheless weaken work motivation and create a 'dependency culture'. This study explores attitudes about the relationship between grant receipt and paid employment in South Africa. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, it examines whether there is evidence of a 'dependency culture', the nature and strength …
Small Area Indices of Multiple Deprivation in South Africa
A Safety Net without Holes: An Argument for a Comprehensive Income Security System for South Africa
Calls for a comprehensive income security policy are common in South Africa, frequently in the form of a basic income grant. These arguments tend to draw on two broad sets of literature that, although arguing to the same ends, are not usually combined or interrelated. First, there are analyses setting out the social and economic benefits of such a policy, focusing particularly on arguments of economic efficiency and affordability. Second, there h…
A Child Well-Being Index at Small Area Level in England
A Geographical Profile of Child Deprivation in South Africa
Evaluating England's 'New Deal for Communities' programme using the difference-in-difference method
The New Deal for Communities (NDC) programme was designed to bridge the gap in living standards between 39 of the most deprived neighbourhoods in England and the rest of the country. This article assesses whether the NDC programme has affected the likelihood that recipients of worklessness benefits, like the Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) or Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance (IB/SDA), will leave worklessness. This article shows that a…
Developing a Democratic Definition of Poverty in South Africa
The democratic approach to defining poverty is set in its theoretical context. The relevance of the approach for South Africa is discussed, and a definition is presented which emerges from quantitative research undertaken in South Africa in 2005. Various issues are considered in relation to the South African case, in particular the extent and nature of consensus across different groups; evidence of whether bounded realities and adaptive preferenc…
Measuring Multiple Deprivation at the Small-Area Level
Indices to measure deprivation at a small-area level have been used in the United Kingdom to target regeneration policy for over thirty years. The development of the Indices of Deprivation 2000 for England and comparable indices for Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland, involved a fundamental reappraisal and reconceptualisation of small-area level multiple deprivation and its measurement. Multiple deprivation is articulated as an accumulation of…
Identifying poverty in rural England
This article demonstrates how benefit dependent households can be identified at small area levels in rural areas. Current debates about the nature and extent of rural poverty are outlined. We then explain how municipal administrative data can be mapped at different spatial levels - Enumeration District and 500 metre grid squares. Such data at small spatial levels are potentially useful components of national indices of deprivation for the allocat…
Origins and Destinations - Social Security Claimant Dynamics
This article briefly reviews American and British literature on welfare dynamics and examines the concepts of welfare dependency and 'dependency culture' with particular reference to lone parents. Using UK benefit data sets, the welfare dynamics of lone mothers are examined to explore the extent to which they inform the debates. Evidence from Housing Benefits data show that even over a relatively short time period, there is significant turnover i…
The Spread of Disability Living Allowance
This article examines the spread of Disability Living Allowance across a group of low income households in an industrial town in North West England from the introduction of the new benefits in 1992 until the Spring of 1996. We focus on the changes over time of the incidence of Disability Living Allowance in the low income population and look at the relative spread of different elements of the benefit. We speculate on whether the new benefits have…
The reach of disability benefits: An examination of the disability living allowance
Key objectives in the 1992 reform of disability benefits were improvements to the scope of benefits and better targeting of funds to those most in need. This paper questions the success of the disability living allowance (DLA) in achieving these aims. Examination of (non-)recipients of the higher rate mobility component of DLA reveals considerable unpredictability in the extent to which the benefit is reaching its eligible population. The OPCS se…
Using Census Data to Predict Income Support Dependency
This article briefly reviews the development of area measures of deprivation. It examines the construction of indices of deprivation and the uses to which such indices are put, particularly in respect of resource allocation. Previous attempts to develop indices have been based on a priori definitions of deprivation (eg the Department of the Environment’s z score and its successor, the 1991 Deprivation Index) and have lacked an empirical base. The…
Children in Need’: Using Geographical Information Systems to Inform Strategic Planning for Social Service Provision
Recent legislation, requires local authorities to provide services such as day care for children in need. New computer techniques for geo‐spatial analysis—Geographical Information Systems—ore now muck used by local authorities in planning environmental and engineering services. This article explores the extent to which these techniques can be applied to social data and, in particular, whether they are useful for strategic planning of day care and…
Measuring Multiple Deprivation at the Small-Area Level
Indices to measure deprivation at a small-area level have been used in the United Kingdom to target regeneration policy for over thirty years. The development of the Indices of Deprivation 2000 for England and comparable indices for Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland, involved a fundamental reappraisal and reconceptualisation of small-area level multiple deprivation and its measurement. Multiple deprivation is articulated as an accumulation of…
Using Indicators of Multiple Deprivation to Demonstrate the Spatial Legacy of Apartheid in South Africa
Small Area Indices of Multiple Deprivation in South Africa
A Child Well-Being Index at Small Area Level in England
Social Assistance and Dependency in South Africa: An Analysis of Attitudes to Paid Work and Social Grants
Despite the absence of an unemployment grant in South Africa, there is growing concern that other social assistance provision might nevertheless weaken work motivation and create a 'dependency culture'. This study explores attitudes about the relationship between grant receipt and paid employment in South Africa. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, it examines whether there is evidence of a 'dependency culture', the nature and strength …
A Geographical Profile of Child Deprivation in South Africa
Developing a Democratic Definition of Poverty in South Africa
The democratic approach to defining poverty is set in its theoretical context. The relevance of the approach for South Africa is discussed, and a definition is presented which emerges from quantitative research undertaken in South Africa in 2005. Various issues are considered in relation to the South African case, in particular the extent and nature of consensus across different groups; evidence of whether bounded realities and adaptive preferenc…
Identifying poverty in rural England
This article demonstrates how benefit dependent households can be identified at small area levels in rural areas. Current debates about the nature and extent of rural poverty are outlined. We then explain how municipal administrative data can be mapped at different spatial levels - Enumeration District and 500 metre grid squares. Such data at small spatial levels are potentially useful components of national indices of deprivation for the allocat…
Does Widespread Lack Undermine the Socially Perceived Necessities Approach to Defining Poverty? Evidence from South Africa
The socially perceived necessities or 'consensual' approach to defining and measuring poverty is based on an assumption that it is possible to obtain a collective view from society on the necessities for an acceptable standard of living. The enforced lack of the necessities due - typically - to lack of resources can be regarded as poverty. The validity of the approach has been questioned on a number of grounds including the argument that people's…
The reach of disability benefits: An examination of the disability living allowance
Key objectives in the 1992 reform of disability benefits were improvements to the scope of benefits and better targeting of funds to those most in need. This paper questions the success of the disability living allowance (DLA) in achieving these aims. Examination of (non-)recipients of the higher rate mobility component of DLA reveals considerable unpredictability in the extent to which the benefit is reaching its eligible population. The OPCS se…
Ring of fire: Socially perceived necessities in informal urban settlements in South Africa
This paper explores which items people living in South African informal urban settlements regard as essential for an acceptable standard of living, in the context of the high levels of service delivery protests in urban areas. Comparisons are made with people in rural former homeland areas which are shown to have similar levels of deprivation and service delivery dissatisfaction and yet have few such protests. People in informal urban areas rated…
Recent Social Policy Developments in Africa
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Global Social Policy, 10(1), April 2010 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2010 G. Wright & M. Noble
Evaluating England's 'New Deal for Communities' programme using the difference-in-difference method
The New Deal for Communities (NDC) programme was designed to bridge the gap in living standards between 39 of the most deprived neighbourhoods in England and the rest of the country. This article assesses whether the NDC programme has affected the likelihood that recipients of worklessness benefits, like the Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) or Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance (IB/SDA), will leave worklessness. This article shows that a…
Origins and Destinations - Social Security Claimant Dynamics
This article briefly reviews American and British literature on welfare dynamics and examines the concepts of welfare dependency and 'dependency culture' with particular reference to lone parents. Using UK benefit data sets, the welfare dynamics of lone mothers are examined to explore the extent to which they inform the debates. Evidence from Housing Benefits data show that even over a relatively short time period, there is significant turnover i…
Using Census Data to Predict Income Support Dependency
This article briefly reviews the development of area measures of deprivation. It examines the construction of indices of deprivation and the uses to which such indices are put, particularly in respect of resource allocation. Previous attempts to develop indices have been based on a priori definitions of deprivation (eg the Department of the Environment’s z score and its successor, the 1991 Deprivation Index) and have lacked an empirical base. The…
The Entanglement of Philosophy, Politics and the Occult: The Hidden Secret of early Post-Avicennan Thought in the Islamic East
By the thirteenth century, philosophy, politics and occult science had become deeply entangled in the Persianate Islamic world. Two of the greatest luminaries in this intellectual milieu were Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.1210) and Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Ibn Ḥabash Ibn Amīrak al-Suhrawardī (d.1191/2), who at one point were fellow students of philosophy under a certain Majd al-Dīn al-Jīlī in Marāgha in northeastern Iran. Both subsequently sought royal patr…
The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in five African countries
Purpose The paper aims to assess the effects of taxes and benefits on inequality and poverty in five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia. Design/methodology/approach The authors use newly developed micro-simulation models to analyse the distribution and composition of incomes. Findings The study's results suggest that income-based measures result in higher levels of poverty and inequality than consumption-based m…
The Spread of Disability Living Allowance
This article examines the spread of Disability Living Allowance across a group of low income households in an industrial town in North West England from the introduction of the new benefits in 1992 until the Spring of 1996. We focus on the changes over time of the incidence of Disability Living Allowance in the low income population and look at the relative spread of different elements of the benefit. We speculate on whether the new benefits have…
Children in Need’: Using Geographical Information Systems to Inform Strategic Planning for Social Service Provision
Recent legislation, requires local authorities to provide services such as day care for children in need. New computer techniques for geo‐spatial analysis—Geographical Information Systems—ore now muck used by local authorities in planning environmental and engineering services. This article explores the extent to which these techniques can be applied to social data and, in particular, whether they are useful for strategic planning of day care and…
Using Census Data to Predict Income Support Dependency
This article briefly reviews the development of area measures of deprivation. It examines the construction of indices of deprivation and the uses to which such indices are put, particularly in respect of resource allocation. Previous attempts to develop indices have been based on a priori definitions of deprivation (eg the Department of the Environment’s z score and its successor, the 1991 Deprivation Index) and have lacked an empirical base. The…
The reach of disability benefits: An examination of the disability living allowance
Key objectives in the 1992 reform of disability benefits were improvements to the scope of benefits and better targeting of funds to those most in need. This paper questions the success of the disability living allowance (DLA) in achieving these aims. Examination of (non-)recipients of the higher rate mobility component of DLA reveals considerable unpredictability in the extent to which the benefit is reaching its eligible population. The OPCS se…
The Spread of Disability Living Allowance
This article examines the spread of Disability Living Allowance across a group of low income households in an industrial town in North West England from the introduction of the new benefits in 1992 until the Spring of 1996. We focus on the changes over time of the incidence of Disability Living Allowance in the low income population and look at the relative spread of different elements of the benefit. We speculate on whether the new benefits have…
Origins and Destinations - Social Security Claimant Dynamics
This article briefly reviews American and British literature on welfare dynamics and examines the concepts of welfare dependency and 'dependency culture' with particular reference to lone parents. Using UK benefit data sets, the welfare dynamics of lone mothers are examined to explore the extent to which they inform the debates. Evidence from Housing Benefits data show that even over a relatively short time period, there is significant turnover i…
Identifying poverty in rural England
This article demonstrates how benefit dependent households can be identified at small area levels in rural areas. Current debates about the nature and extent of rural poverty are outlined. We then explain how municipal administrative data can be mapped at different spatial levels - Enumeration District and 500 metre grid squares. Such data at small spatial levels are potentially useful components of national indices of deprivation for the allocat…
Measuring Multiple Deprivation at the Small-Area Level
Indices to measure deprivation at a small-area level have been used in the United Kingdom to target regeneration policy for over thirty years. The development of the Indices of Deprivation 2000 for England and comparable indices for Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland, involved a fundamental reappraisal and reconceptualisation of small-area level multiple deprivation and its measurement. Multiple deprivation is articulated as an accumulation of…
A Safety Net without Holes: An Argument for a Comprehensive Income Security System for South Africa
Calls for a comprehensive income security policy are common in South Africa, frequently in the form of a basic income grant. These arguments tend to draw on two broad sets of literature that, although arguing to the same ends, are not usually combined or interrelated. First, there are analyses setting out the social and economic benefits of such a policy, focusing particularly on arguments of economic efficiency and affordability. Second, there h…
A Child Well-Being Index at Small Area Level in England
A Geographical Profile of Child Deprivation in South Africa
Evaluating England's 'New Deal for Communities' programme using the difference-in-difference method
The New Deal for Communities (NDC) programme was designed to bridge the gap in living standards between 39 of the most deprived neighbourhoods in England and the rest of the country. This article assesses whether the NDC programme has affected the likelihood that recipients of worklessness benefits, like the Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) or Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance (IB/SDA), will leave worklessness. This article shows that a…
Developing a Democratic Definition of Poverty in South Africa
The democratic approach to defining poverty is set in its theoretical context. The relevance of the approach for South Africa is discussed, and a definition is presented which emerges from quantitative research undertaken in South Africa in 2005. Various issues are considered in relation to the South African case, in particular the extent and nature of consensus across different groups; evidence of whether bounded realities and adaptive preferenc…
Small Area Indices of Multiple Deprivation in South Africa
Recent Social Policy Developments in Africa
The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Global Social Policy, 10(1), April 2010 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2010 G. Wright & M. Noble
Social Assistance and Dependency in South Africa: An Analysis of Attitudes to Paid Work and Social Grants
Despite the absence of an unemployment grant in South Africa, there is growing concern that other social assistance provision might nevertheless weaken work motivation and create a 'dependency culture'. This study explores attitudes about the relationship between grant receipt and paid employment in South Africa. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, it examines whether there is evidence of a 'dependency culture', the nature and strength …
Ring of fire: Socially perceived necessities in informal urban settlements in South Africa
This paper explores which items people living in South African informal urban settlements regard as essential for an acceptable standard of living, in the context of the high levels of service delivery protests in urban areas. Comparisons are made with people in rural former homeland areas which are shown to have similar levels of deprivation and service delivery dissatisfaction and yet have few such protests. People in informal urban areas rated…
Does Widespread Lack Undermine the Socially Perceived Necessities Approach to Defining Poverty? Evidence from South Africa
The socially perceived necessities or 'consensual' approach to defining and measuring poverty is based on an assumption that it is possible to obtain a collective view from society on the necessities for an acceptable standard of living. The enforced lack of the necessities due - typically - to lack of resources can be regarded as poverty. The validity of the approach has been questioned on a number of grounds including the argument that people's…
Using Indicators of Multiple Deprivation to Demonstrate the Spatial Legacy of Apartheid in South Africa
From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends
For the authors of From Gods to God, the text of the Hebrew Bible is a rich archaeological site in which exquisite artefacts of Israel's lost oral tradition await discovery by the tools of literary
Lone Motherhood in South Africa: Some Methodological Challenges and Policy Imperatives
In this paper a working definition of lone motherhood in the South African context is presented. Whilst rejecting any assumption that lone motherhood is necessarily experienced as an identity, it is argued that the category of lone motherhood has analytical value as it exposes the circumstances faced by women who care for children without a partner or spouse present. The working definition is operationalised using household survey data and certai…
The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in six African countries
This paper assesses the effects of public policies on income taxes and benefits in six African countries. The comparative analysis focuses on the distribution and composition of incomes and assesses the effect of these policies on inequality and poverty. The results are based on newly developed microsimulation models for Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia. They highlight differences in tax and benefit systems among th…
Neighbourhood change and spatial inequalities in Cape Town
Capturing the dynamics of population change in urban areas necessitates access to geographically fine-grained and temporally consistent data for several time points. Such data are generally not available and they must be created using standard population data which cannot usually be compared across time periods. In this paper, the focus is on changing spatial inequalities in Cape Town, South Africa. This paper details an approach to generation of…
The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in five African countries
Purpose The paper aims to assess the effects of taxes and benefits on inequality and poverty in five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia. Design/methodology/approach The authors use newly developed micro-simulation models to analyse the distribution and composition of incomes. Findings The study's results suggest that income-based measures result in higher levels of poverty and inequality than consumption-based m…
The Entanglement of Philosophy, Politics and the Occult: The Hidden Secret of early Post-Avicennan Thought in the Islamic East
By the thirteenth century, philosophy, politics and occult science had become deeply entangled in the Persianate Islamic world. Two of the greatest luminaries in this intellectual milieu were Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.1210) and Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Ibn Ḥabash Ibn Amīrak al-Suhrawardī (d.1191/2), who at one point were fellow students of philosophy under a certain Majd al-Dīn al-Jīlī in Marāgha in northeastern Iran. Both subsequently sought royal patr…
Adaptive social protection in Indonesia: Stress‐testing the effect of a natural disaster on poverty and vulnerability
Indonesia is among the countries with the highest exposure to natural disasters, and risks are expected to increase due to climate change. Natural disasters and other shocks require well‐developed social protection systems that can cushion the economic consequences for those most vulnerable to these events. International stakeholders advocate for ‘Adaptive Social Protection’ which links social policy with strategies on disaster risk reduction and…
Economics (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Geography (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (8 works) · Poverty (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (7 works)