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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 +4 more
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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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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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Microbiology Research, 2023 The rising migration and travel from and towards endemic areas has brought renewed concerns about many parasitic infections, including neglected tropical diseases, such as schistosomiasis.
Valentina Dimartino +4 more
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, 2023 Poverty is typically measured with respect to some measure of individual or household resources, such as income or expenditure. However, there is no formal reason why poverty can not also be measured with respect to other important dimensions of the human condition, such as health or education. Here we review the analysis of health poverty.
Bénédicte Apouey, David Madden
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Effectiveness of the non-profit organisation 'Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS' - a study
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2005 No abstract available.
Kathleen Brodrick, Mandisa Mafuya
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Clinical Correlates of Deliberate Self-Harm Among Migrant Trauma-Affected Subgroups
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction: Studies have shown that exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTEs) during the migration process has serious consequences on mental health.
Francesca Baralla +7 more
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Income Distribution Dependence of Poverty Measure: A Theoretical Analysis [PDF]
, 2005 With a new deprivation (or poverty) function, in this paper, we theoretically study the changes in poverty with respect to the `global' mean and variance of the income distribution using Indian survey data. We show that when the income obeys a log-normal
Amit K. Chattopadhyay +25 more
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Social assistance programme impacts on women's and children's diets and nutritional status
Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2022 Investments in social assistance programmes (SAPs) have accelerated alongside interest in using SAPs to improve health and nutrition outcomes. However, evidence of how design features within and across programme types influence the effectiveness of SAPs ...
Deanna K. Olney +5 more
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