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Despite that global internet usage continues to expand given the increase in the number of computer ownership and Internet access, a divide persists between information rich and information poor, which is people with lower incomes, education levels, skill and capacity, minorities, as well as...
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provision of social justice in the form of the fight against poverty, inequality and unemployment and maintenance of political …
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investigations have confirmed the facts that the measures of poverty and inequality are sensitive to various choices of equivalence … scales. Therefore, standard measures provide mostly overestimated poverty and inequality estimates. Further, poverty … lower poverty in the region and at the same time discover a growth in inequality over time. While a mixed result is derived …
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poverty and inequality to many of the problems encountered within families. It explores how hurt, shame and loss are …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to decompose inequality in Sri Lanka by population subgroups and income sources … firstly sketches an inequality profile for Sri Lanka and then investigates the principle components of inequality by applying … several decomposition techniques. Essentially a decomposable class of inequality measures were computed by considering …
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contribution toward our fight against “Inequality and Poverty”. Design/methodology/approach – Some of our approaches toward …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of left Brazilian political parties and partisan disruption on the homicide rate in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The authors use panel data for the states between the years 1980 and 2011. The database used is an unbalanced...
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”-oriented poverty reduction channels are discussed. Originality/value – It deviates from mainstream country-specific and microeconomic … survey-based approaches in the literature and provides the first macroeconomic assessment of the “mobile phone”-inequality …
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, inequality and inaccessibility in Gwynedd, exploring food access initiatives and their responses to the pandemic, innovative food … support from public sector funding to help alleviate some of the hardships and pressure with the rise in poverty and austerity …
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implementation of the model will help in reducing poverty in the Muslim majority countries. Social implications Muslim countries host … half of global poverty, even though their share in global population is only one-fourth. Hence, there is need for solutions … in achieving scale in poverty alleviation efforts. Originality/value Using a mathematical model, the paper presents …
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