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Advancement of European Union Countries in Sustainable Development Goal 7

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United Nations 2030 Agenda identifies 17 Sustainable Development Goals, along with Goal 7 on ‘ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all’. Achieving it is a major challenge for countries, including the European Union member states.
Mariola Grzebyk, Barbara Fura, Małgorzata Stec, Alina Szewc‐Rogalska   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exponential and power-law probability distributions of wealth and income in the United Kingdom and the United States [PDF]

Lorenz curve, Gini coefficient, family ...
A. Dragulescu, V. M. Yakovenko
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Concentration of Political Power and Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries: Evidence Using the Quantile Regression Method

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of constitutional power concentration on adaptation to climate change in 113 countries observed between 1995 and 2023 using the quantile regression method. The results reveal that the concentration of constitutional power hinders countries' adaptation to climate change through inequalities ...
Simplice A. Asongu, Cherif Abdramane
wiley   +1 more source

Geographic distribution indices of general practitioners, midwives, pediatricians, and gynecologists in the public sector of Iran

Electronic Physician, 2017
Background: Health workforce distribution is so important in access posture, coverage and equity. Following millennium development goals (MDGs), special attention to health workforces in relation with maternal and child health is required.
Rasoul Honarmand, Mostafa Mozhdehifard, Zahra Kavosi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the Decomposition of the Gini Coefficient: an Exact Approach, with an Illustration Using Cameroonian Data [PDF]

Decomposing inequality indices across household groups or income sources is useful in estimating the contribution of each component to total inequality.
Abdelkrim Araar
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Cultural Differences and Interdependencies in Climate Change Mitigation Efforts and Their Psychological Antecedents Across 63 Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change research, like much of social science, is biased toward WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) populations, limiting its global relevance. Even cross‐national studies often suffer from methodological inconsistencies due to cultural and geographic interdependencies.
Danila Valko, Kristin Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Youth Poverty: A Zip Code Analysis [PDF]

Estimation of Gini coefficients for various age groups indicates that Kentucky youth population is at risk. The paper determines the factors affecting youth poverty, employing Zip Code data.
Debertin, David L., Misra, Kaustav
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Developing Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Research and Innovation Smart Specialisation Strategy to Implement the Quintuple Helix

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to analyse how regions benefit from developing urban agriculture into the research and innovation smart specialisation strategy (RIS3). To this end, the socio‐economic structural variables employed by the EU to design regional RIS3s were analysed from a sample of 100 European regions.
Ana María Bartolome, Teresa Briz, Beatriz Urbano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On an Aggregation Theory for Indicators Expressing Behaviors of Complex Systems With an Application to Sustainability

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou, Yannis A. Phillis   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons from COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of unequal access to food stores using the Gini coefficient. [PDF]

Cities, 2023
Li CE, Lin ZH, Hsu YY, Kuo NW.
europepmc   +1 more source