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A Study on Determining Household Poverty Status

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management, 2020
Poverty is the normal challenge faced by the worldwide community. The human society has never ceased to fight against poverty. This research study focuses on determining significant attributes that can be utilized to distinguish poor and non-poor household units.
Maricel P. Naviamos, Jasmin D. Niguidula
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WEALTH HOLDINGS AND POVERTY STATUS IN THE U.S.

Review of Income and Wealth, 1990
Families below the poverty line are better off in terms of wealth than income. In 1962, the ratio of mean income between families below and above the poverty line is 0.19 and the ratio of mean wealth is 0.29. The corresponding ratios for 1983 are 0.16 and 0.19.
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Poverty status probability: a new approach to measuring poverty and the progress of the poor

The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013
Poverty measurement and the analysis of the progress (or otherwise) of the poor, whether it is societies, families or individuals, is beset with difficulties and controversies surrounding the definition of a poverty line or frontier. Here, borrowing ideas from the mixture model literature, a new approach to assigning poverty-non poverty status is ...
Gordon Anderson, PITTAU, Maria Grazia, ZELLI, Roberto   +2 more
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Poverty in India: concepts,measurement and status [PDF]

, 2014
Poverty is a major hurdle of inclusive economic growth in any country. Thus eradication of poverty is become one of the important objectives of Government programme especially for developing country like India. To effectively design and execute the poverty eradication programme, government has to describe the meaning of poverty and explain how they can
More, Sachin, Singh, Narendra
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Poverty Status in Montevideo (Uruguay) in the 1980s

2001
Although there were external shocks and changes in macroeconomic and income policies, the poverty indexes did not register important variations in Uruguay (1980-1990). But the fluctuations in average income suggest that the levels of absolute poverty could have been affected.
Maximo Rossi, Marisa Bucheli
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Marital Status and Poverty with Gender Bias

2020
Abstract This chapter analyses the relationship between individuals’ poverty situation and conjugal status (divorced, separated, in a free union, or legally married) from 1996 to 2014. It describes different marriage property regimes that exist in state laws in Mexico.
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Inter-temporal Mobility of Poverty Status

2012
The main concern of this chapter is to examine the changes of household from one state of poverty state to another over the 5-year period. Poverty is not static but dynamic, the result of multiple interacting factors that operate from intra-households to the global levels. A static measure of poverty is taken from the observation of income or wealth at
Motiur Rahman, Noriatsu Matsui, Yukio Ikemoto   +2 more
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Effects of poverty on health status.

Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1992
Two major points derive from this paper. First, the search for mechanisms of action of poverty is likely to be facilitated by a focus on the poor and lower classes and on poor white children as well as on poor minority children. Second, new ways to characterize illness and health are needed to clarify the nature and extent of the impact of poverty on ...
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American Cancer Society's report on the status of cancer disparities in the United States, 2021

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Rebecca L. Siegel, Carmen E Guerra, Ahmedin Jemal   +2 more
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Beyond the socio-economic status: The concept of ‘vital poverty’

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2020
Siracusano, Alberto, Ribolsi, Michele
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