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Salud autorreferida: influencia de la pobreza y la desigualdad del área de residencia
Gaceta Sanitaria, 2015 Objetivo: Evaluar la influencia de la desigualdad de ingresos y de la pobreza de las localidades de Bogotá-Colombia sobre la percepción de mala salud de sus residentes. Métodos: El estudio se basó en la encuesta multipropósito aplicada en Bogotá-Colombia.
Beatriz Caicedo +1 more
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The global challenge of cancer governance
World Medical &Health Policy, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 672-681, December 2023., 2023 Abstract The global cancer statistics are stark, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020, around one in six of all deaths globally. The World Health Organization estimates that 70% of these cancer deaths occur in low‐ and middle‐income countries and cancer will continue to rise as a proportion of deaths in these settings.
Neil Lunt
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Feeding the future in Ghana: Gender inequality, poverty, and food insecurity
World Medical &Health Policy, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 638-671, December 2023., 2023 Abstract As women's empowerment is critical for the adoption of agricultural technologies by farmers, some governments have over the last three decades adopted a gender equality approach to food security. In Ghana, women play a vital role as farmers and food processors, which means they impact household nutrition in important ways.
Irene S. Egyir +3 more
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Politics &Policy, Volume 51, Issue 5, Page 898-918, October 2023., 2023 Abstract The present study investigates the incidence of financial institutions' dynamics of depth and access in the effect of income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 sub‐Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and ...
Simplice Asongu, Nicholas M. Odhiambo
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Global justice and the opportunity costs of conservation
Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Opportunity costs can represent a significant portion of the costs associated with conservation projects and frequently outstrip other kinds of cost. They are typically understood to refer to the benefits someone would have obtained if conservation projects had not required them to give up current activities, such as farming or hunting or if ...
Chris Armstrong
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Policy &Internet, Volume 14, Issue 4, Page 824-844, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Digital inequality is a critical issue in our knowledge economy. Often digital inequality is framed as a problem that only older people encounter. This rather stereotypical portrayal can result in improvised and unsuccessful policy actions. The goal of the article is to take the experiences of citizens who never or seldom use information and ...
Nicole S. Goedhart +2 more
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Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico†
The Economic History Review, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 584-610, August 2021., 2021 Abstract Historical wage and income data provide both normative measures of living standards, and indicators of patterns of economic development. This study shows that, given limited historical data, median incomes are most appropriate for measuring welfare and inequality, while urban unskilled wages can be used to test dualist models of development ...
Ingrid Bleynat +2 more
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Cuerpos de cobre: Extractivismo en Chuquicamata, Chile
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 200-218, June 2021., 2021 Resumen ¿Qué extraen y qué producen los extractivismos? El presente artículo intenta responder a esta pregunta analizando críticamente, la relación entre cuerpos, trabajo y mi‐nería principalmente bajo el modelo neoliberal chileno, en la mina estatal de cobre a tajo abierto más grande del planeta: Chuquicamata.
Marina Weinberg
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Regional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, Page 63-81, February 2021., 2021 Abstract In the EU, territorial inequalities in terms of income and poverty have been broadly analysed at the national and regional levels. However, mainly due to the lack of reliable data, very little attention has been paid to territorial inequalities within European regions, namely, at a more local level, such as in metropolitan areas, cities or ...
Alberto Díaz Dapena +3 more
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¿Por qué importa la desigualdad? Del economicismo a la integridad social
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 2015 La falta de consenso existente en torno a la desigualdad contrasta con el aparente consenso construido alrededor de la necesidad de eliminar la pobreza.
Tim Anderson
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