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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates whether and under what conditions digital finance advances green growth (GG) and broader sustainable development (SD) objectives in a financially volatile, climate‐constrained, and developmentally unequal world. Using annual data for 118 developed and developing countries from 2004 to 2022, we construct four Principal ...
Sehar Saleem +3 more
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Slums Effect on Urban Sustainability: Suggested Planning Mechanisms for Development
Quaestiones GeographicaeSlums are considered one of the largest problems that threaten our urban environment, and their negative impact is exacerbated by the passage of time without a radical solution.
Jasim Ihsan Abbas +3 more
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Feeding practices of children in an urban slum of Kolkata
Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2009 Good nutrition forms the basis for good health of a child. Nutrition is required for a child to grow, develop, stay active, and to reach adulthood as well.(1) Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is recommended as the optimum method of feeding for the first 6 months of life and semi-solid foods are to be introduced after 6 months while continuing ...
Roy Sima, Dasgupta Aparajita, Pal Bobby
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Can we ‘WaSH’ infectious diseases out of slums?
, 2020 The world is becoming increasingly urban and most of this growth is taking place in urban slums of the developing world. The current (2019) global population stands at 7.7 billion, with approximately one billion (13%) living in urban slums.
Qadri, F +4 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rapid population growth, environmental degradation and institutional constraints continue to shape environmental sustainability in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), yet evidence on nonlinear demographic dynamics, governance moderation and regional differences remains limited.
Emmanuel K. Manu
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Waste management in urban slums
, 1983 The high rate of population growth in developing countries in recent times has created intricate sanitation problems which governments can no longer ignore.
S.A. Amoaning-Yankson (7218932)
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines patterns of socioeconomic inequality among Brazil's 26 state capitals and the Federal District, totaling 27 capitals, and assesses the discriminatory capacity of SDG‐related indicators within the country's five major regions.
Nisrin Naiel Dib Khaled +3 more
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Factors associated with metabolic syndrome among women living in urban slums in Mysore, India.
, 2023 Factors associated with metabolic syndrome among women living in urban slums in Mysore, India.
Karl Krupp (9524770) +7 more
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Journal of Participatory Research MethodsDespite the expanding population of children in urban slums, the strive to ensure equitable education remains an under-appreciated and under-developed area.
InJung Cho
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