Previous research has repeatedly confirmed that students with special educational needs (SEN) are generally less accepted by their peers. Although inclusive teaching strategies and classroom characteristics frequently hypothesised to improve students’ social participation, empirical evidence is scarce. Therefore, the purpose of this paper investigate practices can help foster in general, reduce...

The paper compares perspectives on the meaning of development in the late 1970s and early 1980s to the contemporary period, with a focus on the works of Dudley Seers and Amartya Sen. Both men were critical of the development literature of their times. Seers was especially critical of neoclassicism’s universal claims and economic growth as the prime objective. For Sen, development involves reduc...

Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (X.L., J.L., S.L., Y.Z., X.W., C.Z., M.H.) Kidney Transplant Department, Transplant Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (Q.F. , H.W., J.L., C.W.) Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center; State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China; Collabor...

In this paper, we obtain the strong consistency and asymptotic distribution of the Theil-Sen estimator in simple linear regression models with arbitrary error distributions. We show that the Theil-Sen estimator is super-efficient when the error distribution is discontinuous and that its asymptotic distribution may or may not be normal when the error distribution is continuous. We give an exampl...

Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (X.L., J.L., S.L., Y.Z., X.W., C.Z., M.H.) Kidney Transplant Department, Transplant Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (Q.F. , H.W., J.L., C.W.) Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center; State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China; Collabor...

Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were quite simple. The headcount in...

This paper points to some elementary conflicts between the claims of interpersonal and intergroup justice as they manifest themselves in the process of seeking a real-valued index of poverty which is required to satisfy certain seemingly desirable properties. It indicates how ‘group-sensitive’ poverty measures, similar to the Anand-Sen (1995) ‘Gender Adjusted Human Development Index’ and the Su...