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World Income Distribution: Which Way?
Svedberg, Peter - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 2003
Over the past few years, a large number of studies have aimed at estimating changes in relative income distribution across countries and globally. Some of the studies find the distribution to have worsened considerably, others that it has become more even. One objective of this article is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005648815
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VIllage Economics and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Rangel, Marcos A; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512432
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One Hundred years of Economic Change in Bengal: Re-visiting the Economic Life of a Bengal District
Raihan, Selim - eSocialSciences - 2011
Through the use of secondary data, field visits and focus group discussions, this study explores the dynamics of the evolution of the economic life in Greater Faridpur over the last 100d years (1910-2010). Such investigation suggests that there have been large increases in population and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321448
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Lives and Livelihoods on the Streets of Dhaka City: Findings from a Population-based Exploratory Survey
Ahmed, Syed Masud; Islam, Qazi Shafayetul; Hossain, Shamim - eSocialSciences - 2011
BRAC has long been working to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321461
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Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health
Bartram, Jamie; Cairncross, Sandy - eSocialSciences - 2010
the cycle of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764245
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Women's Migration, Urban Poverty and Child Health in Rajasthan
Kumar, Maya Unnithan; MCNAY, K; CASTALDO, A - eSocialSciences - 2014
in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. Urban poverty is significant in Rajasthan … with a fifth of the urban population living below the poverty line and in slums. Increasing numbers of poor migrants in … search of employment contribute to the rising levels of urban poverty in cities such as Jaipur, where the present study is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945312
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State Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India
Fan, Victoria; Karan, Anup; Mahal, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2012
catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.†The program and the districts are evaluated over time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945315
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Poverty and Livelihood among Tribals in Gujarat: Status, Opportunities, and Strategies
Sajitha O.G; Shah, Amita - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543114
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The Unequal World of Health Data
Byass, Peter - eSocialSciences - 2009
Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons … uncounted. Alternative strategies are needed to fill in inequitable gaps in data. Poverty either in physical terms or in data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008460505
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Political Sociology of Poverty In India: Between Politics of Poverty and Poverty of Politics
Kumar, Anand - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper on political sociology of poverty in India is based upon the assumption that a) the caste system and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466888