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The urban crime and heat gradient in high and low poverty areas
Journal of Public Economics, 2019 We use spatially disaggregated daily crime data for the City of Los Angeles to measure the impact of heat and pollution on crime and to study how this relationship varies across the city. On average, overall crime increases by 2.2% and violent crime by 5.
Kilian Heilmann, Matthew E. Kahn
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Progress in Geography, 2020 : It is of great significance to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and enhance development capacity and the ability to resist shocks in contiguous poverty-stricken areas. Economic resilience, as an indicator of the resistance, recovery,
Jianjun Ding +3 more
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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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Poverty in Rural Areas : an Outline of the Problem
Acta Scientiarum Polonorum. Oeconomia, 2020 This article is an attempt to determine the level of poverty in rural areas in Poland. The author reviewed the most important publications on poverty and the indicators that determine its scale. Relative, objective and subjective poverty lines were used to present the range of rural poverty against the background of total poverty.
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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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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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Gender and poverty in South African rural areas
Cogent Social Sciences, 2019 In this article, we elicit the effects of gender on poverty reduction efforts in South Africa. Gender plays a huge role in the household decision-making process, as a result, it can determine if whether the household falls into a poverty trap or falls ...
P. Cheteni, Y. Khamfula, Gisele Mah
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