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Infrastructure and Poverty Traps
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether infrastructure development helps poor economies escape low‐income traps or transition to higher‐income levels. Infrastructure has always been central to development policies and is critical for achieving the SDGs.
A. Olatunji, L. Ado‐Kofie, B. Ouattara
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ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
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Este artículo expone un análisis preliminar de los apellidos hallados en las islas menores del mar interior de Chiloé de las provincias Llanquihue, Chiloé y Palena.
Ricardo Álvarez Abel+3 more
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Las enfermedades no se distribuyen aleatoriamente entre la población, los condicionantes socioeconómicos influyen poderosamente en generar enfermedad. Existen importantes evidencias, recogidas de la epidemiología, la economía de la salud y las ciencias sociales, que demuestran cómo la pobreza o las crisis económicas generan desigualdades en salud ...
de Miguel, Ángel Gil+1 more
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Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World
Abstract This paper re‐examines the British workhouse within the framework of racial capitalism and the Atlantic world. Traditionally understood as a domestic mechanism for managing poverty and labour in an era of industrial capitalism, we argue the workhouse was deeply intertwined with global systems of racial exploitation and accumulation from the ...
Andrew Williams, Jon May
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Abstract Forest restoration is being promoted globally as an action that addresses multiple challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss and poverty. But restoration projects will only persist over the long term if their goals are aligned with local people's interests and priorities.
Gabriela Barragán, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla
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Este artigo propõe e analisa uma reforma fiscal que busque a eqüidade regional, por meio da equalização na distribuição das receitas tributárias entre Estados.
Nelson Leitão Paes+1 more
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ABSTRACT To tackle lasting rural poverty and fully eradicate absolute poverty by 2020, the Chinese government introduced the “targeted poverty alleviation” (TPA) policy in 2013. Quantitative assessments prove the policy's success; yet multidimensional aspects and subjective perceptions of rural poverty are insufficiently accounted for.
Lisa Hoeschle, Shuang Liu, Xiaohua Yu
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