Thoughts on poverty and its elimination

Neighborhood poverty and suicidal thoughts and attempts in late adolescence.

BACKGROUND Suicide tends to concentrate in disadvantaged neighborhoods, and neighborhood disadvantage is associated with many important risk factors for youth suicide. However, no study has directly investigated the link between neighborhood poverty and youth suicidal behaviors, while controlling for pre-existing vulnerabilities. The objective of this study was to determine whether living in a ...

On World Poverty: Its Causes and Effects

Recent advances in modeling directed acyclic graphs are used to sort-out causal patterns among a set of thirteen measures deemed relevant to the incidence of world poverty. Cross-section measures of the percent of population living on one and two dollars or less per day from eighty low income countries are exposed to a battery of tests of conditional independence with respect to measures of eco...

Health policy and its impact on poverty.

Poverty may be defined narrowly as a lack of income, but is more usefully viewed as a multidimensional concept. I discuss some associations between poverty and health, identify groups with special needs, and describe some aspects of the government's health policy which are relevant to those needs. Finally, I note the importance of ensuring there is a more integrated approach in future.

Row and Column Elimination Sampling Design +1 and its Efficiencies

Extended Abstract. It is a traditional way in biological, sociological, agricultural and geological studies to partition a geographical area into quadrats and then take a sample of them by a particular sampling design. We study the relevant characteristic of quadrats to estimate a parameter of the population. We suppose that the variable of interest has a positive spatial autocorrelation. Sampl...

Poverty and its measurement