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Sociological Analysis of Policies to Reduce Poverty and Social Inequality in Development Plans (Policy Solutions and Recommendations in Compiling the Seventh Development Plan [PDF]
توسعه اجتماعی, 2023 Combating poverty and social inequalities is always one of the main concerns of policymakers. In Iran, this issue has always been considered in the form of development plans and poverty alleviation bills. Unfortunately, the poverty indicators do not show
Amir Maleki
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The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Significance This study demonstrates the causal impact of a poverty reduction intervention on early childhood brain activity. Data from the Baby’s First Years study, a randomized control trial, show that a predictable, monthly unconditional cash transfer
Sonya V. Troller‐Renfree +8 more
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Flood exposure and poverty in 188 countries
Nature Communications, 2021 Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards, with particularly disastrous impacts in low-income countries. This study presents global estimates of the number of people exposed to high flood risks in interaction with poverty.
Jun Rentschler, M. Salhab, B. Jafino
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Economic Change and Restructuring, 2022 Realizing green economic recovery and eradicating energy poverty have become China’s strategic priorities in the post-COVID-19 era. In the context of the active advocacy of green finance, to empirically investigate whether green finance can help ...
Jun Zhao, Jianda Wang, Kangyin Dong
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Period poverty: why it should be everybody’s business
Journal of global health reports, 2022 Period poverty, defined as a lack of access to menstrual products, hygiene facilities, waste management, and education, affects many women globally causing physical, mental, and emotional challenges.
J. Michel +3 more
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Utilities of Artificial Intelligence in Poverty Prediction: A Review
Sustainability, 2022 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is generating new horizons in one of the biggest challenges in the world’s society—poverty. Our goal is to investigate utilities of AI in poverty prediction via finding answers to the following research questions: (1) How ...
Aziza Usmanova +3 more
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Global exposure to flood risk and poverty
Nature Communications, 2022 Flooding is a pervasive natural hazard, with new research demonstrating that more than one in five people around the world live in areas directly exposed to 1-in-100 year flood risk.
T. McDermott
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Poverty and economic decision making: a review of scarcity theory
Theory and Decision, 2021 Poverty is associated with a wide range of counterproductive economic behaviors. Scarcity theory proposes that poverty itself induces a scarcity mindset, which subsequently forces the poor into suboptimal decisions and behaviors.
Ernst-Jan de Bruijn, G. Antonides
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Association of County-Level Poverty and Inequities With Firearm-Related Mortality in US Youth.
JAMA pediatrics, 2021 Importance Youth firearm-related deaths are a public health crisis in the US. The association between county-level poverty and the risk of firearm-related deaths among youth is unknown, however. Objective To examine the association between county-level
Jefferson T. Barrett +5 more
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Pediatrics, 2021 Childhood economic disadvantage is associated with lower cognitive and social-emotional skills, reduced educational attainment, and lower earnings in adulthood.
Kimberly G Noble +6 more
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