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The poverty rate is the ratio of the number of people (in a given age group) whose income falls below the poverty line …; taken as half the median household income of the total population. It is also available by broad age group: child poverty (0 …-17 years old), working-age poverty and elderly poverty (66 year-olds or more). However, two countries with the same poverty …
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The poverty gap is the ratio by which the mean income of the poor falls below the poverty line. The poverty line is … defined as half the median household income of the total population. The poverty gap helps refine the poverty rate by … providing an indication of the poverty level in a country. This indicator is measured for the total population, as well as for …
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Are breast cancer survival rates higher in the United States than in the United Kingdom and France? Are a patient's chances of dying within 30 days after admission to a hospital with a heart attack lower in Canada than in Korea? Are surgeons in some countries more likely to leave “foreign...
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On the surface there is agreement, sustainable development refers to a broad set of issues, going beyond the relationship between the economy and the environment to encompass human and social concerns. Scratch the surface and you open a Pandora's box of differing notions of sustainability and...
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. These measurement approaches cover the "triple bottom line" (economic, environmental and social dimensions) of industrial …
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measurement framework for the consistent assessment of procurement processes. The framework should also support data-based policy …
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an affinity measurement. Hydrophobicity is defined as "the association of non-polar groups or molecules in an aqueous …
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A small group of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that grow fast over a short period of time, i.e., scalers, make an outsized contribution to job creation and economic growth. This paper provides a portrait of scalers in the Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, and its two...
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