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Despite that global internet usage continues to expand given the increase in the number of computer ownership and Internet access, a divide persists between information rich and information poor, which is people with lower incomes, education levels, skill and capacity, minorities, as well as...
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poverty and inequality to many of the problems encountered within families. It explores how hurt, shame and loss are …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to decompose inequality in Sri Lanka by population subgroups and income sources … firstly sketches an inequality profile for Sri Lanka and then investigates the principle components of inequality by applying … several decomposition techniques. Essentially a decomposable class of inequality measures were computed by considering …
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contribution toward our fight against “Inequality and Poverty”. Design/methodology/approach – Some of our approaches toward …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of left Brazilian political parties and partisan disruption on the homicide rate in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The authors use panel data for the states between the years 1980 and 2011. The database used is an unbalanced...
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”-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. Originality/value – It deviates from mainstream country-specific and microeconomic … survey-based approaches in the literature and provides the first macroeconomic assessment of the “mobile phone”-inequality …
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, inequality and inaccessibility in Gwynedd, exploring food access initiatives and their responses to the pandemic, innovative food … support from public sector funding to help alleviate some of the hardships and pressure with the rise in poverty and austerity …
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implementation of the model will help in reducing poverty in the Muslim majority countries. Social implications Muslim countries host … half of global poverty, even though their share in global population is only one-fourth. Hence, there is need for solutions … in achieving scale in poverty alleviation efforts. Originality/value Using a mathematical model, the paper presents …
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Purpose – This editorial article aims to introduce the special issue of Critical Perspectives on International Business entitled “Critical perspectives on fair trade”. Design/methodology/approach – The editorial provides a brief overview of the subject of fair trade, with an emphasis on...
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inequality and to design effective intervention policies. The purpose of this paper is to focus on poverty reduction and welfare …Purpose – Measures of inequality determine the effectiveness of social and economic policies aimed at reducing … improving impacts of reducing income inequality in the case of Fiji. Using Fiji's Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2002 …
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