OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between county-level income inequality and rates of child maltreatment. METHODS Data on substantiated reports of child abuse and neglect from 2005 to 2009 were obtained from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. County-level data on income inequality and children in poverty were obtained from the American Community Survey. Data for additional cont...

Article history: Received 24 June 2010 Received in revised form 17 January 2012 Accepted 19 January 2012 Available online 27 January 2012 We build a panel of 14 emerging economies to estimate the magnitude of wealth effects on consumption. Usingmodern econometric techniques and quarterly data,we show that: (i)wealth effects are statistically significant and relatively large inmagnitude; (ii) st...

This paper offers an informal theory of fractal poverty traps that lead to chronic poverty at multiple scales of socio-spatial aggregation. Poverty traps result from nonlinear processes at individual, household, community, national and international scales that cause the coexistence of high and low equilibrium levels of productivity and income and high and low rates of economic growth. Multiple...

Living in poverty and living in areas of concentrated poverty pose multiple risks for child development and for overall health and wellbeing. Poverty is a major risk factor for several mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, as well as for other developmental challenges and physical health problems. In this paper, the Promise Neighborhoods Research Consortium describes a science-based fram...

poverty, in general and women’s poverty in particular is among social problems which has been subject to be mitigated through measures. the results of statistics based studies show that poverty and injustice is more prevalent in rural areas than cities and more common among women than men. the research aims to study the social and cultural causes of women’s poverty through the qualitative appro...

In this article we illustrate how fine-grained longitudinal analyses of land holding and land use among forest peasant households in an Amazonian village can enrich our understanding of the poverty/land cover nexus. We examine the dynamic links in shifting cultivation systems among asset poverty, land use, and land cover in a community where poverty is persistent and primary forests have been r...

salah abdul saboor as a pioneer of arabic poetry is one of the greatest contemporary poets of egypt. this paper is about his famous play named ”hallaj’s tragedy”. this play tries to unveil social and political dimensions of hallaj’s life and the age he lived in order to compare it with abdul saboor’s life and age. we can call this play “tragedy of abdul saboor”. abdul saboor in this play discus...

Poverty and malaria appear to have an intertwined link. This paper aims to define the relationship between poverty and malaria in Yunnan, China, and to make recommendations for future research in this important area. Data on malaria prevalence and the population's income in each county between 2005 and 2010 were obtained from the Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Yunnan B...

Although the world witnessed an unprecedented pace of poverty reduction over the last decades, reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty by more than 700 million, approximately 1.2 billion people remained entrenched in destitution in 2010. In order to leverage developing country efforts and galvanize the international development community to exert concerted effort to end extreme ...