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Poverty and poverty alleviation programmes in the urban areas of Mozambique
Habitat International, 1995Abstract The first part of this paper provides an analysis of poverty and destitution in the cities of Mozambique. The second part summarises the existing programmes for poverty alleviation and the social safety net. The last part describes in some detail the only organisation and programme which has had significant impact in terms of alleviating ...
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The Poverty Area Measures data product
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Poverty Area Measures (PAM) data product is designed to improve understanding of the geography of poverty in the United States. This report contains historical and technical documentation from the November 2022 version of PAM.Farrigan, Tracey, Sanders, Austin
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Urban Poverty Areas and Education
2016This chapter offers an overview of the current results of quantitative empirical studies on how the district in which children and young people live affects their education. After an introduction proposing the theoretical modelling of contextual effects of this type, two central areas are covered: institutions and social capital. Until now, findings in
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Area-Level Time Models for Small Area Estimation of Poverty Indicators
2010Small area parameters usually take the form h(y), where y is the vector containing the values of all units in the domain and h is a linear or nonlinear function. If h is not linear or the target variable is not normally distributed, then the unit-level approach has no standard procedure and each case should be treated with a specific methodology.
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Suburbanization of poverty in the Bay Area [PDF]
Community Development Research Brief, 2012 Despite its persistent association with the "inner city," poverty has shifted toward the suburbs in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past decade. Using data from the 2000 census and the 2005-2009 ACS 5-year estimates, this research brief examines the changing geography of poverty in the Bay Area and its implications for the community development ...
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Understanding chronic poverty in urban areas
International Planning Studies, 2005The problem of chronic poverty in urban areas has been given little attention despite an increasing interest in poverty and some recognition of the growing significance of urban populations. This paper reviews the literature to bring together what we know about the nature and scale of chronic poverty in urban areas.
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Area-based Poverty and Resident Empowerment
Urban Studies, 1996The gap between the poorest people in Britain and the average has grown significantly since the late 1970s. People in the lowest income groups are increasingly overrepresented in council housing. Most council housing is built in large, separate, single-purpose estates. Therefore area-based poverty has grown.
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Delivery of Pharmaceutical Services in Poverty Areas
Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association (1961), 1969R P, Penna, S P, Galloway
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