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, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …
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Introduction: Migration has contributed to the economic empowerment of women in West Africa. Empowerment can be accepted as a way to open up entrepreneurial opportunities that could contradict the established gender norm. Thus, in some cases migration can be part of an economic empowering...
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Across the world, people in urban rather than rural areas are more likely to support gender equality. To explain this … global trend, this paper engages with geographically diverse literature and comparative rural-urban ethnographic research … against gender-based violence. However, the urban is not inevitably disruptive. Experiences of the urban are shaped by …
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This study assessed the travel characteristics of the elderly population in Lokoja metropolis in North Central Nigeria. This was with a view to developing a database for proper formulation and implementation of a sustainable transport policy for elderly people in Lokoja metropolis in particular...
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This study investigates an urban climate vulnerability in Cambodia by constructing an index to compare three different … poverty; however, both poverty thresholds point out that the current urban poor households are more vulnerable than non …
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Humankind has entered a new "urban era", where the majority of the population lives in urban areas. It is, therefore …, not surprising that sustainable urban development has become an integral pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable …
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The demand for sustainable mobility in Brazil is driven by the Brazilian cities growing urban density, the increased …, pedestrians and cyclists; the level of cycling policy integration with other public policies; and the urban space available area … cycle assessment (LCA) that models the impacts on each transportation mode and its available urban space (pedestrian …
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-inflated negative binomial regression model. A multistage sampling technique was used to select a random sample of 450 rural and urban … intensity of leafy AIVs were higher in rural than in urban dwellers with a mean of four and two times a week, respectively. Age … in urban dwellers could increase through the promotion of the value addition activities of sorting and plucking vegetable …
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traditionally Water User Associations (WUAs) are set up to govern and manage water resources for farmers, the urban expansion into … agricultural areas implies that WUAs must integrate the concerns of non-farmers and multiple water uses within peri-urban …
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We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 ….33 in 1995 to 0.32 in 2002, but it increased to 0.36 in 2013. This followed the same trend as that of urban income, though …
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