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Inequality and redistribution: evidence from Scandinavian and Mediterranean countries [PDF]

Applied Economic Analysis
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the adjustment of government redistributive policies in Scandinavian and Mediterranean countries following changes in income inequality over the period 1980–2021.
Oscar Claveria, Petar Sorić
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ESG metrics and social equity: Investigating commensurability

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022
During the past two decades, the world has seen exponential growth in the number of companies reporting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data, and various ESG metrics have been proposed and are now in use. ESG metrics play a crucial role as an
Alexander R. Keeley, Alexander R. Keeley, Andrew J. Chapman, Kenichi Yoshida, Jun Xie, Janaki Imbulana, Shutaro Takeda, Shunsuke Managi, Shunsuke Managi   +8 more
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Multidimensional economic complexity and inclusive green growth

Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
To achieve inclusive green growth, countries need to consider a multiplicity of economic, social, and environmental factors. These are often captured by metrics of economic complexity derived from the geography of trade, thus missing key information on ...
Viktor Stojkoski, Philipp Koch, César A. Hidalgo   +2 more
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Ecological study of the association between socioeconomic inequality and food deserts and swamps around schools in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Previous research suggests that unhealthy community food environments around schools contribute to unhealthy eating habits and negative health outcomes among the youth.
Bernardo Andretti, Letícia Oliveira Cardoso, Olivia Souza Honório, Paulo César Pereira de Castro Junior, Letícia Ferreira Tavares, Isabela da Costa Gaspar da Silva, Larissa Loures Mendes   +6 more
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Distributional impact of infectious disease interventions in the Ethiopian Essential Health Service Package: a modelling study

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives Reducing inequalities in health and financial risk are key goals on the path toward universal health coverage, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries.
Lelisa Fekadu Assebe, Ole Norheim
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Metrics of ideal cardiovascular health are unequally distributed between peruvian men and women: Analysis of a national population-based survey in 2017

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2020
Background: To determine socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular health (CVH) metrics among Peruvian adults as well as differences according to sex.
Akram Hernández-Vásquez, Horacio Chacón-Torrico, Rodrigo Vargas-Fernández, Guido Bendezu-Quispe, Marilina Santero   +4 more
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On income and wealth inequality in Turkey

Central Bank Review, 2018
In this paper, we study Turkey's income and wealth distribution using a model-based approach via a modified Aiyagari (1994) model. In doing so, we use recent parameter estimates for Turkey and calibrate our model to match Turkey's income and wealth ...
Orhan Torul, Oğuz Öztunalı
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Measuring internal inequality in capsule networks for supervised anomaly detection

Scientific Reports, 2022
In this paper we explore the use of income inequality metrics such as Gini or Palma coefficients as a tool to identify anomalies via capsule networks.
Bogdan Kirillov, Maxim Panov
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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A new way to measure the world's protected area coverage. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Protected areas are effective at stopping biodiversity loss, but their placement is constrained by the needs of people. Consequently protected areas are often biased toward areas that are unattractive for other human uses.
Lissa M Barr, Robert L Pressey, Richard A Fuller, Daniel B Segan, Eve McDonald-Madden, Hugh P Possingham   +5 more
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