Countries of all shapes, sizes, and characteristics have been experimenting with various forms of social policy to reduce poverty. However, these experiments have not allowed governments to proclaim povertyfree zones and a universally agreed upon and proven strategy has not emerged to magically reduce poverty. Part of the reason for this difficulty in devising proven strategies is political sin...

Abstract Interlocutors tend to refer objects using the same names as each other. We investigated whether native and non-native interlocutors’ tendency do so is influenced by speakers’ nativeness their beliefs about an interlocutor's nativeness. A or participant a confederate directed other around map deliver locations. manipulated confederates referred favored disfavored name, while controlling...

AIM To examine the association of social ties and income with self reported health, in order to investigate if social ties have a greater impact on the health of people on low incomes compared to those financially better off. METHODS A nationally representative cross-sectional study of 5205 French adults using data from questionnaires which asked about health, income and relationships with fa...

Throughout this decade, the prevailing narrative on the links between socioeconomic status and HIV portrays poor individuals and households as being more vulnerable to HIV infection, and least able to cope with the ensuing impacts of AIDS-related disease and death. While early stages of the epidemic in the 1980s and early 1990s were driven by “mobile men with money”, AIDS is now conventionally ...

poverty is one of the most important problems in developed and developing countries such as iran. for solving this problem, many studies have investigated the effective factors on poverty. in this paper, the impact of financial development on absolutepoverty in iran has been investigated during 1985-2013 by using the structural time series method. for do it, two indicators of financial developm...

The late 2000s Great Recession has refocused the nation’s attention on poverty, racial and ethnic inequality, and spatial disparities in income. This paper uses newly-released place and county poverty estimates from the 2005-2009 American Community Survey, along with estimates from the 1990 and 2000 decennial census summary files, to provide post-2000 estimates of concentrated poverty in metro ...