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Evaluating potentials of passive solar heating renovation for the energy poverty alleviation of plateau areas in developing countries: A case study in rural Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Solar Energy, 2019
Energy poverty refers to a situation that people cannot access and use energy safely. It is a major challenge for the global energy system because of its negative impacts on household income, health, education, gender equality and environmental ...
Zhijian Liu   +6 more
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Mapping annual land use changes in China's poverty-stricken areas from 2013 to 2018

Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019
China aims to end absolute poverty by 2020. In pursuit of this goal, a series of poverty reduction policies and measures have been proposed. As a vital element of poverty reduction, land use in China's poverty-stricken areas also undergone great changes ...
Y. Ge   +11 more
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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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Protected areas and poverty reduction: The role of ecotourism livelihood in local communities in Ghana

Community Development, 2019
Ecotourism has become a sustainable alternative to degrading livelihoods around protected areas in developing countries. Its contributions to poverty reduction are captured in terms of employment and income generation.
Y. Agyeman   +2 more
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Social Networks and Coping with Poverty in Rural Areas

Sociologia Ruralis, 2019
This article draws attention to the spatial dimensions of poverty and the importance of social networks as coping resources for the rural poor. We analyse data from an explorative, mixed‐methods study conducted in rural and urban areas in north‐eastern ...
A. Klärner, Andreas Knabe
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Anticancer Initiative Targets Areas of Poverty

Cancer Discovery, 2023
Abstract The NCI and NIH awarded $50 million over 5 years to five university-based centers to conduct research and implement programs aimed at improving how people with cancer fare in low-income areas. Centers participating in the Persistent Poverty Initiative will expand research in high-poverty areas and engage patients in cancer ...
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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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Multi-dimensional poverty measurement for photovoltaic poverty alleviation areas: Evidence from pilot counties in China

, 2019
Poverty alleviation based on the use of photovoltaic panels has been designated one of “the ten large-scale poverty alleviation programs in China” since 2015.
Huiming Zhang   +4 more
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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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Teacher Views of Poverty Area Children

The Journal of Educational Research, 1967
AbstractTo assses the favorabillty disposition and content of teachers' views of poverty children, 167 teachers were asked to select 50 of 300 words which best describe poverty children. Proportion of poverty children In present teaching assignment was unrelated to favorabillty, but those with many such children showed a more frustrated view. Teachers’
George E. North, O. Lee Buchanan
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