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Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? [PDF]

, 2003
The conventional approach of economists to the measurement of poverty in poor countries is to use measures of income or consumption. This has been challenged by those who favour broader criteria for poverty and its avoidance. These include the fulfilment
Geeta G. Kingdon, John Knight
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Flood exposure and poverty in 188 countries

Nature Communications, 2021
Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards, with particularly disastrous impacts in low-income countries. This study presents global estimates of the number of people exposed to high flood risks in interaction with poverty.
Jun Rentschler, M. Salhab, B. Jafino
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Newly arrived migrants did not represent an additional COVID-19 burden for Italy: data from the italian information flow

Globalization and Health, 2023
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, migrants arriving in host countries irregularly have not infrequently been perceived as increasing the COVID-19 burden.
Leuconoe Grazia Sisti, Anteo Di Napoli, Alessio Petrelli, Alessandra Diodati, Andrea Cavani, Concetta Mirisola, Gianfranco Costanzo   +6 more
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Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding program

Nature Communications, 2021
India’s national school feeding program is the largest of its kind in the world, but the long-term program benefits on nutrition are unknown. Here, the authors show intergenerational program benefits, in that women who received free meals in primary ...
Suman Chakrabarti, Samuel P. Scott, Harold Alderman, Purnima Menon, Daniel O. Gilligan   +4 more
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Poverty and Time [PDF]

The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011
We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. In contrast to earlier contributions, we assign importance to the persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a class of individual intertemporal poverty measures reflecting this feature.
Walter Bossert, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Satya R. Chakravarty   +4 more
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Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and syphilis among newly arrived unaccompanied minors living in reception centers in Rome

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020
Objective: This study aimed to address the prevalence of infectious diseases in a population of unaccompanied immigrant minors living in reception centres of Rome, Italy. Methods: The study was carried out from January 2013 to January 2019.
Rosalia Marrone, Giovanni Baglio, Giusy Bruscino, Gianfranco Costanzo, Andrea Cavani, Concetta Mirisola   +5 more
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Effects of sanitary pad distribution and reproductive health education on upper primary school attendance and reproductive health knowledge and attitudes in Kenya: a cluster randomized controlled trial

Reproductive Health, 2021
Plain language summary Adolescent girls face a range of challenges that may compromise their chances of completing school or their sexual and reproductive health.
Karen Austrian, Beth Kangwana, Eunice Muthengi, Erica Soler-Hampejsek   +3 more
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Nationwide longitudinal population-based study on mortality in Italy by immigrant status

Scientific Reports, 2022
A systematic analysis of the mortality of immigrant residents throughout Italy has never been carried out. The present study aimed to evaluate differences in mortality by immigrant status.
Anteo Di Napoli, Martina Ventura, Enrico Grande, Luisa Frova, Concetta Mirisola, Alessio Petrelli   +5 more
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Artificial Intelligence in the Industry 4.0, and Its Impact on Poverty, Innovation, Infrastructure Development, and the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from Emerging Economies?

Sustainability, 2021
Artificial intelligence in the fourth industrial revolution is beginning to live up to its promises of delivering real value necessitated by the availability of relevant data, computational ability, and algorithms.
David Mhlanga
semanticscholar   +1 more source

CONCEPTS OF POVERTY AND THE POVERTY LINE [PDF]

Journal of Economic Surveys, 1991
Abstract.Various approaches adopted in developed economies to distinguishing between the poor and non‐poor—to setting a poverty line—are reviewed. These include the budget standard, food ratio, ‘official’, subjective and relative poverty line methods, as well as the analysis of indicators of deprivation.
Tim Callan, Brian Nolan
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