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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Manifold socio-economic processes shape the built and natural elements in urban areas. They thus influence both the living environment of urban dwellers and sustainability in many dimensions.
Marta Sapena +2 more
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Analysis of approaches to assessing living standards of population
Векторы благополучия: экономика и социум, 2023 Relevance. The need to significantly improve living standards of population in the regions of the Russian Federation. This task is defined in a number of strategic development documents at the federal level and has been repeatedly outlined in the studies
R.V. Fattakhov, P.V. Stroev
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Vaccines, 2023 Background: Understanding past successes in reaching unvaccinated or “zero-dose” children can help inform strategies for improving childhood immunization in other settings.
Nancy Fullman +4 more
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The drivers of local income inequality: a spatial Bayesian model-averaging approach
Regional studies, 2019 This study analyzes the drivers of local income inequality in Spain. It derives a novel data set of inequality metrics for a sample of municipalities over the period 2000–06.
Miriam Hortas-Rico, V. Ríos
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Перераспределительные эффекты налогов и трансфертов: опыт Китая [PDF]
, 2017 Устойчивый и быстрый экономический рост Китая в течение последних десятилетий привел не только к повышению уровня доходов на душу населения, но также и к серьезному разрыву в доходах отдельных категорий граждан.
Liu Baihui, Лиу Байхиу
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IZA World of Labor, 2019 Economists use various metrics for measuring income inequality. Here, the most commonly used measures—the Lorenz curve, the Gini coefficient, decile ratios, the Palma ratio, and the Theil index—are discussed in relation to their benefits and limitations.
Ija Trapeznikova
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
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The State of Working America [PDF]
, 2012 [Excerpt] Like its predecessors, this edition of The State of Working America digs deeply into a broad range of data to answer a basic question that headline numbers on gross domestic product, inflation, stock indices, productivity, and other metrics ...
Bivens, Josh +3 more
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