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Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and strong economic growth. Such dynamics have stimulated a need to better understand the causes of income inequality so...
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This study examines whether income inequality and poverty are determinants of crime rates across 34 provinces in … Indonesia. Three indicators of income inequality and four poverty measures are tested to examine whether the dimension and … rates than our second and third indicators, i.e., the gap in food expenditure and the Gini ratio. Poverty is also positively …
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The study of poverty and its quantification is a critical yet unresolved problem in social science. This work seeks to … use a new composite indicator to assess poverty as a multidimensional concept. However, subjective decisions, such as …-based composite indicator. Our method generates robust and trustworthy measurements based on a meaningful conceptual model of poverty …
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The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using …
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Background: Poverty in Korea is not gender neutral. Both male headed and female headed households experience poverty in … distinct ways. This research discusses poverty and how it has evolved in Korea from a gender perspective. Methods: It describes … the characteristics of poverty among the working population based on gender and other household attributes. It measures …
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households’ performance with different characteristics in terms of poverty. It uses four rounds of data from the consumer …, and living in less-developed states are more likely to be in poverty. In the second part, the article explores stochastic … targeted for poverty alleviation strategies. The first part sheds light on key determinants of household expenditure, while the …
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index of inequality elasticity of poverty. The study puts forward a scenario matrix to hypothesize the four qualities of … growth according to its interactions with inequality and poverty. This model is useful for developing countries that lack GDP … poverty measures. …
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one following the COVID-19 pandemic, on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece. To this end, we also … inequality and relative poverty have deteriorated during the years of crises, implying that the country's response to economic … distribution, we show that income inequality and the risk of poverty increase with growth, implying that the benefits of growth …
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For many years, the Punjab province of India has had the dubious distinction of having the worst sex ratio among all other states of India. In recent years, both the child sex ratio and the overall sex ratio has shown a marked improvement in the state. This paper analyses whether the improvement...
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This research investigates the intricacies of work-life balance among female staff members (including teaching and non-teaching) in higher educational institutions within the Sultanate of Oman. Despite the increasing participation of women in the workforce, achieving a satisfactory work-life...
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