An article published on India Outlook in July 2019 stated that Dharavi, Mumbai’s biggest slum, has now beaten the Taj Mahal as most popular tourist destination India, having “received a push by Hollywood and Indian films alike” (2019). Following Hesmondalgh’s observation cultural industries reflect inequalities of capitalist societies (2007), we examine precisely relationship between poverty to...

Cultural barrier often occur on electronic mutual business group (e-Warong), as is a social assistance program form of synergy between the Family Hope Program (PKH) and Mutual Business Group/Kelompok Usaha Bersama (KUBE). Beneficiaries can also make transactions e-Warong using Prosperous Card (KKS) through Electronic Data Capture (EDC). This unique prioritizes achievement economic goals at leve...

This paper investigates the nexus among poverty, ethnicity and conflict in Sri Lanka. The ethnicised conflict in Sri Lanka is embedded in and is an expression of existing social, political, economic and cultural structures. The civil war is thus not a temporary crisis, but a long-enduring feature. Rural societies in the war -affected areas are characterised by ‘distressed livelihoods’ or ‘livel...

INTRODUCTION Socioeconomic status (SES) scales measure poverty, wealth and economic inequality in a population to guide appropriate economic and public health policies. Measurement of poverty and comparison of material deprivation across nations is a challenge. This study compared four SES scales which have been used locally and internationally and evaluated them against childhood stunting, use...

Although it is offi cially a publication of the Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB), the Cost of Poverty report is the result of six months of collaborative work with a dedicated group of researchers, advisors, supporters, and funders. Thank you to Nate Laurie, as the writing for the paper went above and beyond the originally stated task. PROJECT ADVISORS & REVIEWERS Thank you to all of th...

Poverty reduction is a prominent issue for both governments and international organisations. It is one of the millennium development goals of the UN. Developing countries have high poverty levels than developed ones. However the diffusion of basic information and communications technologies (ICTs) services have penetrated majority of developing countries. Using SADC (South African Development C...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of neighborhood levels of poverty, household crowding, and acculturation on the rate of injury to Hispanic and non-Hispanic white children. SETTING Orange County, California. METHODS An ecologic study design was used with census block groups as the unit of analysis. Measures of neighborhood poverty, household crowding, and acculturation were specific to e...

As a historical era, postmodernism signifies transition from inflexible and logical positivism and entry into a new view to science. Postmodernism offers a number of nursing practice revise that including humanism, conditions, and borderless, multi-voice, view, and multicultural world, changes in meaning of knowledge, and life-long learning. Demographic changes, technological advances, ethnic a...

Over the past 40 years, poverty among the inhabitants of U.S. inner cities has remained stubbornly resistant to public policy prescriptions. Especially for African Americans and Latinos, the gap between their economic well-being and that of the mainstream has widened despite persistent and repeated efforts to address the problem. At the same time, a continuing stream of research has sought to e...