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poverty integration. Alternatively, if racial segregation pushed higher- and lower-income African Americans to reside together … neighborhoods, decreasing poverty integration. Using consistently bounded census tract data for thirty-six large metropolitan areas … of the metropolitan population by race and poverty status group between 1980 and 2009 to the proportions of each race and …
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During the first decade of the 21st century, China’s top leaders reined in the marketising, commercialising welfare reforms of the 1990s, and recommitted the State to a role in providing social goods. But the governmental and social elites who shape welfare policy are still debating the...
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Despite economic growth, a large number of Africans continue to live in poverty and experiences high levels of income … and opportunity inequality. Not only does inequality dampen the poverty reduction impact of growth, lower the growth rate …
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of the impact the growth has had on poverty alleviation during India's sixty-year history. The remainder of the article … poverty alleviation. The article argues that India needs to walk on two legs – manufacturing and services – and requires …
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this, a clear template emerges for understanding poverty and alleviating it. …
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Poverty status is an important factor influencing household production and the unpaid work time associated with it due …, we examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women during the Great … Recession. Using the 2003–12 American Time Use Survey, we find that these changes indeed varied by poverty status. In …
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The quality of match of the statistical match used in the Levy Institute Measure of Time and Consumption Poverty …
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We have witnessed a large increase in the number of publications on sustainability challenges over the past decade. One important characteristic of the research is with the wide variety of actors that can make use of the results. Sustainability knowledge is often not only relevant for those in...
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During the world food crisis of 2007-08, the price of staples soared rapidly. Higher food price impacts poor households more as they spend approximately three quarters of their income on food. Together rice and wheat provide more than 50% of the calorific intake in India. Apart from providing...
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poverty are described that have a more realistic prospect of success than those promoted in the international and South …
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