Gemma Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gemma Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gemma |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
What Role Does Emotional Granularity Play in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety? A Scoping Review
INTRODUCTION: Mental health problems are most prevalent during adolescence. Emotional granularity, the ability to identify distinctions between different emotion states in our mental experience, is said to contribute to the onset and maintenance of depression and anxiety in adults, through the evidence for its role in adolescent depression and anxiety is less well established. Theoretically, better emotional granularity facilitates adaptive selec…
Adaptive social protection in Indonesia
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 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 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…
Poverty And Inequality In Middle Income Countries
Crop International Studies In Poverty Research Published by Zed Books in association with CROP David Gordon and Paul Spicker (eds), The International Glossary on Poverty, 1999 Francis Wilson, Nazneen Kanji and Einar Braathen (eds), Poverty Reduction: What Role for the State in Today’s Globalized Economy?, 2001 Willem van Genugten and Camilo Perez-Bustillo (eds), The Poverty of Rights: Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty, 2001 Else Øyen et…
Lone Motherhood in South Africa
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…
Ring of fire
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
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 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…
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…
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
Social Assistance and Dependency in South Africa
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…
Ring of fire
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
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…
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 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…
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
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
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
Lone Motherhood in South Africa
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…
Poverty And Inequality In Middle Income Countries
Crop International Studies In Poverty Research Published by Zed Books in association with CROP David Gordon and Paul Spicker (eds), The International Glossary on Poverty, 1999 Francis Wilson, Nazneen Kanji and Einar Braathen (eds), Poverty Reduction: What Role for the State in Today’s Globalized Economy?, 2001 Willem van Genugten and Camilo Perez-Bustillo (eds), The Poverty of Rights: Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty, 2001 Else Øyen et…
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…
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…
Adaptive social protection in Indonesia
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…
What Role Does Emotional Granularity Play in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety? A Scoping Review
INTRODUCTION: Mental health problems are most prevalent during adolescence. Emotional granularity, the ability to identify distinctions between different emotion states in our mental experience, is said to contribute to the onset and maintenance of depression and anxiety in adults, through the evidence for its role in adolescent depression and anxiety is less well established. Theoretically, better emotional granularity facilitates adaptive selec…
Economics (13 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Poverty (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (7 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works)