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The majority of disabled people experience the onset of their health problem or impairment inadulthood. According to a survey carried out in the mid-1990s, 11 per cent of disabled adultsof working age were born with a health problem or impairment, 12 per cent became disabledduring childhood, and...
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impossibleto recreate the exact conditions under which the people of AgarTown lived, it can be shown that the households were … and overall income available to households within thedisplaced area. This information is used to produce a … Poverty.[...] …
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This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remoteand poorest of the independent states of the … Former Soviet Union. Datais used from the first nationally representative household surveyconducted in Tajikistan since … ‘poor’, a third are ‘very poor’and nearly 20 percent ‘extremely poor’ (below $1 PPP a day). Threequartersof households are …
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, quantitative,phase of the project, based on the UK Time Use Survey (TUS) 2000. The TUS is anationally representative household …
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’s target of eliminating fuel poverty among vulnerable households by 2010, based largely on the recommendations in a recent …Following the implementation of the government’s fuel poverty strategy in 2001, Warm Front is expected to make a … substantial contribution to reducing the number of fuel poor households – those unable to afford to heat their homes adequately1 …
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Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable andnoted feature of Chinese society. The paper … socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is … approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty andinequality are considered.[...] …
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poverty and social exclusion in the labourmarket. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precariousworkers …. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty MonitoringSurvey, which is the only survey to date that allows a …
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explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the … investigated with behavioural models thatstrive to capture household strategies to cope with nutritional inadequacy andscarcity of …
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poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerablehouseholds in the UK using Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Survey … andfind that, of three different types of risks that we test for, household-specific shocksand economy-wide aggregate shocks … revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …
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associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … poverty aremixed. There is some robust evidence of the negative association of ICT expenditureswith corruption. An ICT index …
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