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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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Chronic Poverty and Remote Rural Areas
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011This paper is a first attempt at putting the case that people living in remote rural areas (RRAs) account for a substantial proportion of the chronically poor. The evidence for this will be gathered from country studies, longitudinal quantitative and qualitative micro-level studies, and the growing volume of work on spatial poverty traps.
Kate Bird +3 more
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Short, thin, or obese? Comparing growth indexes of children from high- and low-poverty areas.
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 1992This study compared the growth indexes of first-grade, white children living in geographic areas of high poverty (n = 281) and low poverty (n = 442) in the state of Washington. Obesity was the most common growth deviance observed in these children.
B. Sherry +3 more
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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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Fuzzy Index Poverty (FIP): Measuring poverty in rural area of Terengganu
2010 International Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), 2010Previously, several attempts have been made to find a suitable way of measuring poverty. The current practice in measuring poverty is based on assumption that the poor can be identified by determining a poverty line. As pointed out by Cerioli and Zani (1990) and by Cheli et al.
Mahmod Othman +2 more
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Small Area Estimation of Poverty Statistics
2009In response to high demands for lower level poverty estimates, the National Statistical Coordination Board releases provincial estimates, in addition to the national and regional, starting with the 1997 FIES. However, estimates of the coefficients of variation (CV) of several provincial estimates indicate that the resulting poverty measures are not ...
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Rural-urban disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality vary by poverty level and region.
Journal of Rural HealthPURPOSE To examine rural and urban disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) death rates by poverty level and region. METHODS Using 2021 county-level population and mortality data for CVD deaths listed as the underlying cause among adults aged 35-64 ...
Ahlia Sekkarie +4 more
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School‐community relations in poverty areas
Peabody Journal of Education, 1968(1968). School‐community relations in poverty areas. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 209-213.
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Local area crime and energy poverty
Energy Economics, 2022Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Russell Smyth
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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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