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  2. Charity (practice) - Wikipedia

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    Examples of needs-based approaches include charitable giving, philanthropy, and other private investments. In contrast, a rights-based approach involves active participation from both ends, with recipients having a say in policies. Politically, a rights-based approach might involve income redistribution, minimum wage regulations, and cash ...

  3. Corporate social responsibility - Wikipedia

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    This research indicates that more than 65,000 women entrepreneurs are doubling their incomes while increasing rural access and hygiene in Indian villages. Another example is IKEA's "People and Planet" initiative, which is to be 100% sustainable by 2020. Consequently, the company wants to introduce a new model to collect and recycle old furniture.

  4. Help-seeking - Wikipedia

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    Adaptive help-seeking involves improving one's capabilities and/or increasing one's understanding by seeking just enough help to be able to solve a problem or attain a goal independently. Adaptive help-seeking can, for example, involve students asking for hints about the solution to problems, examples of similar problems, or clarification of ...

  5. Warm-glow giving - Wikipedia

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    Warm-glow giving is a useful economic framework to consider public good provision, collective action problems, charitable giving, and gifting behavior. The existence of a warm glow helps explain the absence of complete crowding-out of private giving by public grants, as predicted by classical economic models under the neutrality hypothesis.

  6. Self-control - Wikipedia

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    One of the most common self-control dilemmas involves the desire for unhealthy or unneeded food consumption versus the desire to maintain long-term health. An indication of unneeded food could also be over-expenditure on certain types of consumption such as eating away from home.

  7. Gift economy - Wikipedia

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    [35]: 4 For example, an animal given as a gift must be eaten, not bred. However, as in the example of the Trobriand armbands and necklaces, this "perishing" may not consist of consumption as such, but of the gift moving on. In other societies, it is a matter of giving some other gift, either directly in return or to another party.

  8. Wikipedia:Glossary - Wikipedia

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    Term sometimes used in edit summaries to indicate that the edit was to sort list or other items into alphabetical order. Actionable In featured content promotion discussions, all objections to promotion must be actionable – that is, it must be possible to make changes (or "actions") so the specified problem can be resolved. For example ...

  9. Social engagement - Wikipedia

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    The term "social engagement" is commonly used to refer to one's participation in the activities of a social group. [1] The term has also been defined as "the extent to which an individual participates in a broad range of social roles and relationships." [2] and as "the commitment of a member to stay in the group and interact with other members ...