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Land, 2023 With the advancement of “targeted poverty alleviation”, the main problems we face at this stage are analyzing the causes of poverty and preventing poverty-stricken villages from falling back into poverty. Using the last batch of poverty-stricken villages
Xianping Zhang, Lu Yu, Xiang Xu
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Dimensions of Poverty in Kunduz Province of Afghanistan
World, 2022 Afghanistan is a vulnerable country, and various challenges have led to widespread poverty. This study measured the different dimensions of poverty in rural and urban areas to help policymakers with poverty alleviation in the Kunduz province of ...
Muhammad Asef Shaiq +3 more
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Do Area-Based Markers of Poverty Accurately Measure Personal Poverty? [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2001 Area-based markers of deprivation (e.g., postal codes) are commonly used to identify groups of people with low socioeconomic status (SES); the validity of this approach, however, remains unknown. In this study, we determined the accuracy of using income quintile groups calculated on the basis of the median family income of each forward sortation area ...
D D, Sin, L W, Svenson, S F, Man
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BMJ, 1998 Rural societies are diverse, with a greater proportion of both people in higher socioeconomic groups and those with low pay than in urban populations. 1 2 Scattered among the relatively wealthy landowners, commuters, and professionals are rural dwellers living on very low incomes.
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International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2018 Around 20% of India’s population are adolescents aged 10–19 years. Our objective was to strengthen program interventions on gender equity, health, and participation by gauging adolescents’ levels of understanding and opinions. In a cross-sectional survey,
Nayreen Daruwalla +4 more
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Impact of protected areas on poverty, extreme poverty, and inequality in Nepal [PDF]
Conservation Letters, 2018 Abstract Protected areas (PAs) are key for biodiversity conservation, but there are concerns that they can exacerbate poverty or unequal access to potential benefits, such as those arising from tourism. We assess how Nepalese PAs influence poverty, extreme poverty, and inequality using a multidimensional poverty index, and a quasi ...
Bowy den Braber +2 more
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Is Poverty Geographic or Area-Based?
American Journal of Public Health, 2013 A recent article1 appears to have introduced a new term into the public health lexicon. Poverty, it now appears, is a feature of geography. This is a rather interesting development from a linguistic standpoint. Because the English language describes many types of poverty, I took the liberty of conducting a Google search using the phrase “types of ...
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MedicinaEarly detection of breast cancer plays a crucial role in reducing the number of cases diagnosed at advanced stages, thereby lowering the high healthcare costs required to achieve disease-free survival and helping to prevent avoidable premature deaths ...
Wolmark Xiques-Molina +4 more
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Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2016 West Sumbawa Regencyis one of the regencies that are rich of natural resources managed by PT. Newmont Nusa Tenggara. However, local communities around the gold mine areas have generally to date been poor. This study was aimed to (1) examine the effect of
Ibrahim +3 more
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Feminization of Poverty: Mainstreaming gender to understand the multidimensionality of poverty. 2015 [PDF]
Población y Desarrollo, 2015 The phenomenon of poverty in Paraguay, has been experiencing a downward trend, historically in the country in poverty and especially extreme poverty has had its point of concentration in rural areas.
Dahiana E. Ayala Alfonso
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