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Assessment of Socio-Economic and Sexual Vulnerability of Tea Workers in Bangladesh [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Social Sciences Research, 2018
The main purpose of this study is to explore and explain the dynamics of a sexual vulnerability of female tea garden workers in Bangladesh. A quantitative oriented qualitative mixed method has been applied to this study. The study reveals that nearly 52% of the respondents are tortured or harassed in the garden and among them, 26% of the tortured ...
Md Ziaur Rahman   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

Causal analysis of trade loss from pathogens: A global study of foot and mouth disease impacts on meat exports

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farm labor scarcity and its uneven impacts on crop producers in the United States

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study is the first to evaluate the impacts of farm labor scarcity on producers in the United States across different crop production systems. Between 2002 and 2017, we disentangle the effects of labor scarcity from the impacts of rising commodity demand, technological change, and supply of other inputs on labor market outcomes.
Srabashi Ray   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methodologies for Assessing Socio-Economic Vulnerability due to Climate Change Regime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Methodologies for Assessing Socio-Economic Vulnerability due to Climate Change ...
Elizabeth James, Harsha, Shyam, S Salim
core   +1 more source

Mental illness and socio-economic situation of women and men diagnosed with gambling disorder (GD) in Sweden - nationwide case-control study

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
The present study aimed to compare men and women with gambling disorder (GD) regarding presence of psychiatric comorbidity and socio-economic vulnerability, and to examine whether these factors appear before or after the gambling disorder.
Louise Larsson, Anders Håkansson
doaj  

Coastal vulnerability assessment of Puducherry coast, India, using the analytical hierarchical process [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2013
As a consequence of change in global climate, an increased frequency of natural hazards such as storm surges, tsunamis and cyclones, is predicted to have dramatic affects on the coastal communities and ecosystems by virtue of the devastation they cause ...
R. Mani Murali   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic, Cultural or Socio‐economic Vulnerability? Explaining Ethnic Inequalities in Health [PDF]

open access: yesSociology of Health & Illness, 1998
Most work on ethnic inequalities in health in the UK has focused on genetic and cultural difference, ignoring issues relating to class disadvantage. However, more recent work, and that conducted in the US, suggests that material disadvantage might be crucial.
openaire   +2 more sources

Inequality and rising levels of socio-economic segregation : lessons from a pan-European comparative study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The research leading to these results has received funding from the Estonian Research Council (Institutional Research Grant IUT no. 2–17 on Spatial Population Mobility and Geographical Changes in Urban Regions); the European Research Council under the ...
Musterd, Sako   +3 more
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B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming Africa's socio-economic landscape through entrepreneurialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
A report published by Africa Policy Review, available at: http://africapolicyreview.com/transforming-africas-socio-economic-landscape-through ...
Anosike, Paschal
core   +1 more source

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