Distribution of Household Income by Race Median Four-Person Family Income Per Capita Personal Income Per Capita Personal Income by State Median Income of Households by Selected Characteristics, 2011 Median Income of Households by Selected Characteristics, 2010 Richest Americans, 2016 Richest StatesSocial...
Rising Inequality in China absolute poverty, and they have not substantially reduced relative poverty or income inequality. © Cambridge University PressEdited by
We also find that when income alone is used to target the poor, inclusion errors are marginal but exclusion errors are sizeable. Despite Bhutan 's significant progress, challenges remain as poverty is still high in rural areas. A multidimensional measure in the lines proposed in this paper can...
To investigate whether the relation between HI and mental illness is particularly strong at any specific level of income, we further categorized HI as a dichotomous variable, defining the cases in the following way: (1) LHI: less than £18,000; (2) LMHI: less than £29,999; (3) ...
In this regard, research findings (OECD 2011) show that, in several countries, the cost associated to the care and assistance to the elderly with a high level of dependency exceeds the available income of individuals including those comprised in the sixth income decile. As claim Costa and Ran...
The decision itself is likely to be based on factors that include the degree of disability but also the level of income. If a family’s income level is high, then the possibility of them providing unpaid care without falling into poverty is available to them. In terms of consequences, as ...
A review of cash programs in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) has found that these programs had a positive effect on some externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents, while having no effect on depressive symptoms (Zimmerman et al., 2021). However, the small number of studies and...
The implications and challenges of energy poverty vary greatly depending on the country’s level of development. In developing countries, energy poverty is mostly about the lack of access to basic clean energy, particularly prevalent in low-income nations in South and Southeast Asia and Africa [27...
Poverty, measured as low proportional income, is a key predictor of disease presence and prevalence at individual or spatial level, therefore, it may help explain the spatial distribution of infectious disease [32]. Urbanization facilitates disease transmission, as demonstrated by dengue fever where ...
Determinants of Households' Income Poverty in the South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria This paper analyzed income poverty in the south-south geopolitical zone of Nigeria using the FGT model and a logit regression on the 2009-10 National Living Standard Survey data. Zonal level results showed 0....