1669 Sleep and Urban Poverty—Simonelli et al INTRODUCTION The unprecedented urban growth in the face of increasing poverty and social inequity in developing countries is posing an immense challenge for governments at all levels. Urbanization of poverty is shown mainly by the proliferation and expansion of slums.1 Such places often contain houses built using plywood, wood boards, cardboard, corr...

Prevailing measures on the topics of monetary and non-monetary poverty—as well as economic carbon inequality—are being critically assessed under sustainable development goals (SDGs) with a worldwide perspective. On one hand, poverty headcount ratio indices gap, severity, Watts are core indices. other important inequality such Gini index Palma evaluated in order to find their potentials for poli...

In general, social exclusion in rural areas is attributed to economic backwardness. The paper examines the rural-urban habitat contribution over factors that produce vulnerability. AROPE index —risk of poverty and exclusion— analyzed by a logistic regression model considers —socio-demographic household structures agrarian bonding— as their interaction with moderator variable. findings show, one...

The debate on the measurement of income, poverty and social exclusion in Europe has increased significantly in recent years. Poverty is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon and, according to the definition used, various measures to assess poverty are calculated and different poverty sizes are obtained. The aim of this work is to make a review of the literature on the most used approaches t...

The aim of this study is to investigate the understanding of wealth, poverty, inequality and unemployment in South African Black (African) children aged 7, 9, 11 and 14 drawn from a rural, an urban and a semi-urban setting. Two hundred and twenty-®ve children (80 rural, 60 urban and 85 semi-urban) were interviewed individually in Setswana, their mother tongue. The urban children were living in ...

Creating inclusive rural communities: Grass roots perspectives on the opportunities and challenges Rural communities in developed countries such as Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland have experienced profound challenges over the past three decades. The social fabric of rural communities in these countries has been and will continue to be affected by global and local pr...