NOVEMBER 2021 Broadcast: Martina Nicolls

NOVEMBER 2021

INSIGHTS FROM MY AID DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANCIES SUFFICIENT SAVINGS AND  SUFFICIENT LIVELIHOODS​ ​ In 2018, a study of livelihoods in five provinces in Cambodia with 500 participants - equally 50 percent male and female - with an average age of 40 - showed that 40 percent were farmers, 48 percent owned their own small business, and 12 percent worked for the government. More than half had no primary school education. Women were significantly more likely to have a savings account (50 percent vs 38 percent of men), and rural participants were more likely to have a savings account (60 percent vs 20 percent of urban participants). Of those with savings, 67 percent said that they would not migrate to Thailand or Vietnam to look for work and 16 percent said they had a strong interest in migrating. The question whether having a savings account might serve as a mediating factor to encourage people to work within their own country led to modest findings and did not reach conventional levels of statistical significance. However, the correlation points in the desired direction: 18 percent with no savings account expressed a strong interest in migrating against 15 percent without a savings account. Men with a savings account were more likely to be disinterested in migrating than men without a savings account, but there was no significant difference for women with or without a savings account. The study looked at the correlation between a person's self-reported income status and the person's interest in migrating within the next two years. "Sufficient" was a self-determined status, denoting whether the person had sufficient livelihoods to support themselves and their family - i.e. to cover food and housing costs. No-one indicated that they had "totally sufficient" funds. Of those with sufficient livelihoods, 67 percent had no interest in migrating, and 30 percent still thought of migrating, whereas 39% of people with insufficient livelihoods would think of migrating to look for work. Again, the results were not significant, but the pattern was as expected. It would be interesting to do further studies in this area. ​ ​ ​ 2018 FLASHBACK:  I'M MISSING CAMBODIAN ROOFTOP VIEWS ​ BOTTICELLI EXHIBITION, PARIS READ MORE and VIEW MORE PHOTOGRAPHS: ​BOTTICELLI EXHIBITION, PARIS​ ​JACQUEMART ANDRE MUSEUM, PARIS​ ​ ​ ​ DUSTY-PINK PARIS MORNING ​ DUSTY-PINK PARIS EVENING READ MORE and VIEW MORE PHOTOGRAPHS: NOVEMBER IS THE TIME FOR ... ​NATIONAL OLIVE FESTIVAL, JORDAN​ ​WORLD KINDNESS DAY: NOVEMBER 13​ ​WORLD TOILET DAY: NOVEMBER 19​ ​WORLD TELEVISION DAY: NOVEMBER 21​ ​SAINT GEORGE'S DAY, GEORGIA: NOVEMBER 23​ ​CITIES FOR LIFE DAY: NOVEMBER 30​ ​ ​ ​ N IS FOR NOVEMBER AND ... ​NILGAI​ ​NIGHT HERON​ Website: Similar but Different in the Animal Kingdom​ ​PHOTOGRAPHS AND MERCHANDISE​ ​ BOOK REVIEWS: N IS FOR NEPAL ​DIPLOMATIC BAGGAGE​ ​LAND WHERE I FLEE​ ​TATTOO - JOURNEYS ON MY MIND​ ​NOTHING TO DECLARE​ ​ ​ A FLOWER EXPECTED EVERYWHERE Website: See information and photos on flowers, gardens, floral art, poetry, books ... HERE​ ​ THE PARIS RESIDENCES OF JAMES JOYCE ​ The blogs on my website The Paris Residences of James Joyce are under the category Opal Hush, connecting the past to the present, and discovering people and places in Paris. Opal Hush is mentioned in James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It's a drink - a quarter of glass of claret topped with lemonade from a soda siphon. ​OPAL BLUSH BLOGS​ ​READ MORE ABOUT THE BOOK​ To receive broadcast updates, subscribe here: SUBSCRIBE​ ​ Copyright © MARTINA NICOLLS, All rights reserved. MARTINA NICOLLS​ ​http://www.martinanicolls.net​ ​http://martinasblogs.blogspot.com​ ​https://www.facebook.com/Martina-Nicolls-მარტინა-ნიკოლსი-1450496988529988/timeline/​ Unsubscribe | Update your profile | PO BOX 16, NO 15975, NOBBY BEACH, QLD 4218

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MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the author  of: The Paris Residences of James Joyce  (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).