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, 2016 Abstract Private consumption capabilities form only one facet of comprehensive living standards assessments, but they are an important facet whose measurement should be done well. Measurement is complex due to a multitude of methodological choices, which often interact with imperfect data and a desire for comparability through time. This
Arndt, Channing +2 more
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Bringing classes back into poverty discussions
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 The 1980s saw a shift in the emphasis of discourse on poverty from production relations to consumption relations, with levels of consumption and purchasing power used to define poverty.
Gizem Özgün, Antoine Dolcerocca
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The Determinants of Household Poverty in South Africa
Africa’s Public Service Delivery & Performance Review, 2016 South Africa was privileged to be part of the MDGs agenda which was adopted in 2000. One of the aims of MDGs was to reduce extreme poverty by half in 2015. For that reason, South Africa integrated policies and strategies to rid poverty by half to that of
Ajuruchukwu Obi, Sanelise Tafa
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Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2022 This paper studies the effect of Mandarin proficiency on poverty reduction and its mechanism. The China General Social Survey (CGSS) is taken as the data source.
Jianchao Qin, Jiali Yao, Safdar Abbas
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The main factors of poverty in modern Russian society
Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки, 2023 Background. In modern Russian society, the problem of poverty is relevant, which necessitates the study of the main factors affecting the level of population’s poverty.
A.V. Vakhrushev
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Empirical Analysis of In-Work Poverty in Iranian Economy: 2004-2020 [PDF]
International Journal of New Political EconomyThe nature of in-poverty and the necessary policies to reduce it are different from general poverty. Therefore, and considering the importance of this phenomenon in Iran, in this research, its indicators were calculated with the approach of income ...
Hossein Rabiei, Mohammad-Ali Kafaie
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Spatial Analysis of Relative Poverty: A Case Study of Slum Areas of Karachi
Reviews of Management Sciences, 2023 Purpose This study aims to explore the reasons for the existence of relative poverty in Karachi, a metropolitan city in Pakistan. Methodology A self-administered survey was conducted on 375 households in eight, major slum areas in Karachi (Orangi ...
Amber Hasan, Nooreen Mujahid
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Decomposing health inequality with population-based surveys: a case study in Rwanda
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018 Background Ensuring equal access to care and providing financial risk protection are at the center of the global health agenda. While Rwanda has made impressive progress in improving health outcomes, inequalities in medical care utilization and household
Kai Liu, Chunling Lu
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Economic Investigation of Poverty and Income Distribution in Pistachio Cultivating Areas of Kerman Province [PDF]
Journal of Nuts, 2018 The study of poverty and income in equality are the most important subjects of social/ economic research in agriculture sector. The present study focuses on poverty and income inequality among pistachio growers in Kerman province.
Reza Sedaghat
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Defining the characteristics of poverty and their implications for poverty analysis
Cogent Social Sciences, 2020 Literature on the characteristics or underlying qualities of the concept of poverty is extensive but fragmented and rarely discusses the influence of these characteristics on poverty analysis.
Blessing Gweshengwe +1 more
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