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Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 2005 This glossary addresses the complex nature of poverty and raises some conceptual and measurement issues related to poverty in the public health literature, with a focus on poor countries.
M, Mowafi, M, Khawaja
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Land, 2023 Large infrastructure projects play a crucial role in regional development but can also negatively impact cultivated-land protection. This study focuses on the role of local governments in land-use conflicts and the rebalancing of land-use structures ...
Junbo Gao +5 more
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Poverty, Deprivation and Consistent Poverty* [PDF]
Economic Record, 2009 Controversy over the setting of poverty lines and its narrow focus on income has undermined the influence of poverty research on policy. The deprivation approach overcomes these limitations by identifying deprivation as an inability to afford items that receive majority support for being essential.
Saunders, Peter, Naidoo, Yuvisthi
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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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Reproductive Health, 2019 Background Expanding contraceptive method choices for sexually active youth is critical to prevent STIs/HIV and unintended pregnancies. However, preferences and decision making around contraception among young adults are not well understood. A new female
Katherine Gambir +3 more
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A New Statistic: The US Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure [PDF]
, 2012 This article examines the dynamic relationship between macroeconomic performance and measures of poverty in the United States. The article is organized as follows.
Jefferson, Philip N.
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Assessing the Impact of Shallow Renovation on Energy Poverty: A Primary Data Study
Energies, 2023 One of the main identified causes of energy poverty (EP) is the low energy efficiency of housing. In this line, since 2018, public administrations and NGOs collaborating with the Naturgy Foundation’s Energy Renovation Solidarity Fund have implemented ...
Roberto Barrella +3 more
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Graph-based Village Level Poverty Identification [PDF]
, 2023 Poverty status identification is the first obstacle to eradicating poverty. Village-level poverty identification is very challenging due to the arduous field investigation and insufficient information. The development of the Web infrastructure and its modeling tools provides fresh approaches to identifying poor villages. Upon those techniques, we build
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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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Novel Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Poverty using Temperature and Remote Sensing Data in Ethiopia [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 In many developing nations, a lack of poverty data prevents critical humanitarian organizations from responding to large-scale crises. Currently, socioeconomic surveys are the only method implemented on a large scale for organizations and researchers to measure and track poverty.
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