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needs, and negative if it is less. Islam has a substantially more sophisticated view of the relation between wealth and …According to western views, wealth is unambiguously good, and so human welfare is positive when wealth is in excess of … welfare. Excess wealth is a trial, which can bring great rewards if utilized correctly, and also bring great harm if utilized …
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This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). It also examines developments in the correlation between the two. Income poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this...
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A socio-economic profile of Muslims in Maharashtra commissioned by the Maharashtra State Minority Commission indicates dismal conditions on the social, economic and educational fronts as also poor representation in the legislature and the Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service...
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This chapter presents a socio-economic profile of Muslim countries at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century. In broad terms, the 57 majority-Muslim countries have a combined population of 1.4 billion Muslims, which is 23 per cent of the world population. An additional 200-300...
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standard economic indicators of income/consumption and wealth, the paper briefly reviews distributions of selected non …
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From a composite poverty indicator, the analysis of the level and evolution of multidimensional poverty in Togo between 1988 and 1998 emphasized a downward trend with the both relative and absolute thresholds considered. Over the two studied periods, non-monetary poverty appears very strongly...
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