BACKGROUND The estimated gap in life expectancy (LE) between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was 12 years for men and 10 years for women, whereas the Northern Territory Indigenous LE gap was at least 50% greater than the national figures. This study aims to explain the Indigenous LE gap by common modifiable risk factors. METHODS This study covered the period from 1986 to 2005. Unit ...

Decades after trade liberalization, poverty among the developing countries has continued to rise as their economies adjust fierce and increasing external competition. This study investigates impact of 1988 reforms on in Pakistan using micro-level data from 1990 2005. Using feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) model panel setting address problem heteroskedasticity, we explored liberalizatio...

This paper is concerned with the current achievement gap policy agenda and associated material discursive power that shape teachers’ work in schools high child poverty rates. More specifically, it explores how a university/school research collaboration – Local Matters can disturb such forms of subjectivation by enabling educators to resist agendas/discourses drawing on locally contextualized kn...

Ghana’s tax reforms constitute the major policy instrument needed to accelerate growth and poverty reduction. Over the past two decades, the government has consistently spent more revenue than it is able to generate and the gap is often financed with foreign aid which has perpetuated the country’s aid dependency. Two options can be explored to reduce the gap between government revenue and expen...

In order to understand nature of the medical and society related problems of leprosy cured individuals from various socio-cultural groups and develop proper system to address the current needs of leprosy cured, data have been collected from leprosy cured, employing qualitative methods such as FGDs, open ended interviews and participant observation and a quantitative survey method. The findings ...

The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a tobit and data from Uganda. Parameters from the model are found to be similar to those from consumption functions, indicating that the poor receive comparable rat...