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Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower indisadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has beenfocused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring therelationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the qualityof...
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The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial dimension. It is thought that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods are the least likely to achieve upward mobility because of a range of negative neighbourhood effects. Most...
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means to target poor people. Area deprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This paper reviews the … different results produced by these indices. It then examines the effectiveness of the current Index of Multiple Deprivation in …
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means to target poor people. Area deprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This paper reviews the … different results produced by these indices. It then examines the effectiveness of the current Index of Multiple Deprivation in …
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Renewed interest in disadvantaged neighbourhoods is generating increasingresearch activity. Current work includes qualitative community studies andquantitative investigations of area effects on individual outcomes. This papercriticises the contribution of area effects research to date....
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This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …
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We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …, sanitation, and education also have significant weights. The decline in deprivation is steeper in rural areas than urban areas …
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This chapter examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. It first … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The chapter also provides a …
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means to target poor people. Area deprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This paper reviews the … different results produced by these indices. It then examines the effectiveness of the current Index of Multiple Deprivation in …
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-group relationship than current literatures on the relationship between poverty, religion and violence might predict. However, their …
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