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The problem of energy poverty in mountainous areas

IISA 2014, The 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, 2014
Energy poverty is a major socio-economic issue, developing fast in recent years, along with the global energy and economic crisis. The austerity oriented policies imposed, combine low incomes with increased fuel/energy prices, a fact that inevitably leads to the households' inability to adequately meet their energy needs.
Nikolas Katsoulakos, Lefkothea Papada, Dimitrios Kaliampakos   +2 more
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Maternal Attitudes in a Poverty Area

The Journal of Negro Education, 1968
The SP Project, undertaken by the Roosevelt Elementary School District, Phoenix, Arizona, and supported by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, involved work with parents and with nursery and kindergarten classes of 4 and 5 year old children in a limited area (about a 1 mile square area) in the most impoverished area of Pheonix. 1 E. S.
George E. North, O. Lee Buchanan
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Child Poverty in Rural Areas

2022
Evidence from around the world suggests that children experience poverty as a condition that is damaging to their mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual development. This chapter sheds light on the ways in which poverty impacts rural children and what poverty reduction means in the lives of African children. While children suffer the worst outcomes
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Poverty and poverty alleviation programmes in the urban areas of Mozambique

Habitat International, 1995
Abstract 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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