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Neighborhood Poverty and 9-1-1 Ambulance Contacts

Prehospital Emergency Care, 2017
Neighborhood poverty is positively associated with frequency of 9-1-1 ambulance utilization, but it is unclear whether this association remains significant when accounting for variations in the severities and types of ambulance contacts.We merged EMS ambulance contact records in a single California county (n = 88,027) with data from the American ...
Josh Seim, Joshua English, Karl Sporer
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1. Why Poverty and Development?

2021
This chapter discusses some of the ways in which the two concepts of poverty and development are related by considering a number of dimensions in which they appear to be opposed. It looks at the 'era of development', describing how the emphasis has shifted from theoretical debate between alternative models of development to acceptance of globalized ...
Alan Thomas, Tim Allen
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Part 1: Growth and Poverty in Africa -- Growth and Poverty in Africa: An Overview

Journal of African Economies, 2004
In light of the importance of pro-poor growth strategies in reducing the especially high poverty rates in Africa, the present article provides an overview for three pertinent papers. First, it is proposed that an important pro-poor growth strategy would entail a greater focus on the rural sector, paying particular attention to an appropriate ...
Augustin Kwasi Fosu, Arne Bigsten
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The War on Poverty 1

2018
This chapter discusses more appropriate ways to measure poverty that reveal how the modern safety net significantly reduces poverty. The paradox of "poverty amidst plenty" led President Lyndon Johnson to declare "unconditional" war on poverty in his first State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. The Johnson administration proposed many strategies
Christopher Wimer, Sheldon Danziger
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POVERTY IN EUROPE1

Review of Income and Wealth, 1982
In this paper a definition of poverty in terms of welfare is given. A method is developed to derive poverty lines from an individual welfare function of income. The model is extended to analyse the effect of several socio‐economic characteristics on the level of the poverty line.
Aldi J. M. Hagenaars   +2 more
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