Our results, which are robust to the use of different methods to approximate the income distribution in the country, indicate that the share of persons living in extreme poverty in North Korea may be larger than previously thought. We estimate a poverty rate for the country of around 60% in...
Sung Hun Han From the journalPeace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-8597.1080 Showing a limited preview of this publication: PeaceEconomics,PeaceScienceandPublicPolicyVo l u m e11,Issue12005Article3PovertyLinein NorthKoreaSungHun Han∗∗CornellUniversity,sh...
…we evaluate the extent to which poverty has fallen as a result of increases in market income versus increases in government transfers. As President Johnson further stated in his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964, “The War on Poverty is not a struggle simply to support people,...
age group, Denmark and Sweden were outliers in having the lowest poverty rates among children and the working aged, whileMexicoand the United States were outliers in having among the highest poverty rates across all three age groups. That said, Korea's elderly poverty rate was particularly ...
Festo Massawe, in Food Security and Nutrition, 2021 Source: Based on FAO, 2017. End rural poverty: a path towards hunger-free, peaceful and inclusive societies. In: Sustainable Development Goals. <http://www.fao.org/sustainable-development-goals/news/detail-news/en/c/1044650/>. View chapter...
In large areas of sub-Saharan Africa, India and Bangladesh, more than sixty-one percent of the population lives in poverty. North Korea’s population is known to go through long periods of starvation, however, getting reliable data from that part of the world is very difficult. (Image: give...
Korea, NorthNA% Korea, South15% (2003 est.) Kosovo30% (2006 est.) Kosovo30% (2006 est.) KuwaitNA% Kyrgyzstan40% (2004 est.) Laos30.7% (2005 est.) LatviaNA% Lebanon28% (1999 est.) Lesotho49% (1999) Liberia80% (2000 est.) ...
Ormandy D, Ezratty V, Battersby S (2022) Dampness in dwellings: causes and effects. Taylor & Francis Oryani B, Moridian A, Han CS, Rezania S, Kasyoka KK, Darajeh N, Ghahroud ML, Shahzad U (2022) Modeling the environmental impact of energy poverty in South Korea: do environment-rel...
In recent times the term 'Microfinance' (MF) became a buzz word in the every corner of the world as well as in the formulation of welfare programs by gover... MV Ramanaiah,CM Gowri - 《African Journal of Business Management》 被引量: 7发表: 2011年 Threat reduction and North Korea's ...
These gaps are found in all regions of the developing world except the Middle East and North Africa where child poverty rates are lowest.7 These findings should be a major concern given the particularly grave consequences of extreme poverty on children in terms of mortality, morbidity, ...