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Assessing the effect of energy poverty on health outcomes: insights from Ghana. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Nyame-Baafi K   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On the psychology of poverty [PDF]

open access: possibleScience, 2014
Poverty remains one of the most pressing problems facing the world; the mechanisms through which poverty arises and perpetuates itself, however, are not well understood. Here, we examine the evidence for the hypothesis that poverty may have particular psychological consequences that can lead to economic behaviors that make it difficult to escape ...
Johannes Haushofer, Ernst Fehr
exaly   +4 more sources

The Two Poverties [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2001
Abstract This chapter examines two concepts on poverty: poverty as desperation and poverty as vulnerability. It identifies a close connection between desperation and vulnerability because both are related to the variable V, which is the minimum socially accepted welfare level.
Banerjee, Abhijit V.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Poverty and Survival [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Development Studies, 2010
A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is more clearly relevant.
openaire   +5 more sources

On ‘Consistent’ Poverty [PDF]

open access: possibleSocial Indicators Research, 2013
The measurement of poverty as ‘consistent’ poverty offers a solution to one of the primary problems of poverty measurement within Social Policy of the last three decades. Often treated as if they were synonymous, ‘indirect’ measures of poverty, such as low income measures, and ‘direct’ measures, such as indices of material deprivation, identify ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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