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Social Support scores, are negatively related to household poverty as well as acute and chronic physical health. Unemployment … deprivation areas, suggesting a ‘social norm’ effect. Our random effects (household) ordered probit modelling approach finds that …
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The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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Poverty and income inequality have worsened since the onset of the crisis. While the design of fiscal measures has … mitigated the burden sharing of fiscal adjustment, as the recession has deepened unemployment has risen, earnings have declined … reforms in targeting social support, especially housing benefits, extending unemployment insurance and introducing a means …
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. The aim of this study is to explore the role of poverty status as a barrier in access to maternal health care services in …
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Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth …
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measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition …
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This study is devoted to assessing the interdependencies between health, education and wealth at the aggregate regional level of South Mediterranean Countries (SMC) for the purpose of strengthening transversal economic and social policies. It looks first, to the major contributions of the...
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paper analysis poverty and health status during pre-reforms and post-reforms periods and compare them to find out that … during which period the decrease in poverty and the increase in health status are better. For the analysis of poverty, people … living below poverty line and for health status analysis life expectancy at birth and infant mortality are used in this study. …
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of crime or risks of unemployment. Practical implications – A practical implication of the paper is to illustrate the …
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the expected sign with a significant effect. The compensation to the poor is at least 46.20% of the lower poverty line …, while the intermediate group receives a compensation of at least 14.47% of the upper poverty line. …
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