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Margherita Scarlato
Researcher at Roma Tre University
Publications - 61
Citations - 353
Margherita Scarlato is an academic researcher from Roma Tre University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cash transfers & Social protection. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 58 publications receiving 299 citations. Previous affiliations of Margherita Scarlato include Sapienza University of Rome.
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Addressing Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Cash Transfers
TL;DR: Burchi et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the role played by rapidly expanding cash transfers (CTs) in enhancing food security and provided a systematic review of evidence of the effects of CT programmes on different aspects of food security in middle-income and low-income countries in SSA.
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Social Enterprise, Capabilities and Development Paradigms: Lessons from Ecuador
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the features of the social economy that has emerged from the social movement resistance in Ecuador and contribute to the comparative analysis of the varying patterns in the evolution of social enterprise around the world.
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Innovation, Socio-institutional Conditions and Economic Growth in the Italian Regions
TL;DR: D'Agostino et al. as discussed by the authors carried out an explanatory investigation into the relationship between social and institutional contextual factors and economic growth in the Italian regions, concluding that policies targeting the enhancement of local socio-institutional conditions have major repercussions for the innovation capacity and economic development of the lagging southern regions.
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Social Enterprise and Development Policy: Evidence from Italy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role of social enterprise in relation to specific features of the Italian socio-economic context and argue that it is appropriate to discuss the concept of social enterprises within the theoretical framework of human development and Amartya Sen's capability approach.
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Knowledge Externalities, Innovation and Growth in European Countries: The Role of Institutions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an empirical analysis of the linkages between institutions and economic growth in the European context and highlight innovation as the intermediate variable that drives this in Europe.