America had a very mild increase in inequality between 1870 and 1910… However, its also in America that the living standard of the bottom 90% surged the most. By 1910, their living standard had increased by a factor of 2.37. Only Canada got close to that increase and it was still immen...
Sibal, PriyankaRaphael, DennisCanadian Review of Social Policy / Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale
Educators are seeing an increase in children arriving at school with poor vocabularies that are going to handicap them throughout life.
For single mothers, poverty rates are 25 percent or higher for all countries shown except Sweden; in Australia, Canada, and Germany, about 40 percent of single mothers are poor; and in the USA, nearly half of all single mothers live in poverty. For elderly women living alone, poverty ...
We find that 7.3 billion people—that is, 94 percent of the world’s population—live in areas that are exposed to PM2.5 concentrations over 5 μg/m3, which increases mortality rates by 4 percent. About 2.8 billion people, or 36 percent of the world population, are directly exposed to...
1.2International Trends in Child Poverty Using the poverty measures described, international comparisons ofchild povertyrates are considered. Comparisons of the proportion of children living in poverty in industrialized countries vary depending upon the type of poverty measure utilized (seeFig. 1, Bradbury...
Now in ... A Leyshon - 《Environment & Planning A》 被引量: 22发表: 1995年 Reproductive technologies. A third world feminist perspective. High fertility rates in the Third World are blamed for lack of economic growth environmental degradation and the low status of women among other ascribed ...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is a part of the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Jordan, attributes the latest increase in poverty rates to several challenges; unceasing public budget deficit, high inflation and low labour force participation rate in addition to the ...
poverty; disabled people; people with disabilities; Canada; global; impoverish; socioeconomic; SES; income; disability studies; ability studies; abilities 1. Introduction According to the World Bank, the world will not meet the SDG of ending extreme poverty in 2030 [1]. It is argued that “...
A powerful current of poverty reduction work is currently coursing through US cities. It’s too early to gauge results, as most initiatives are relatively new, and it’s often difficult to ascribe changes in poverty rates to any particular factor or program. Mayors and other stakeholders are th...