COVID-19 is mostly considered to have ravaged places with high levels of inequality and poverty. Yet, in the case Europe, evidence for this limited. In paper we address gap our knowledge by exploring how regional variations poverty, wealth interpersonal shaped COVID-19-related excess mortality. The results show that during first 18 months pandemic there no link between on one hand, lethality di...

We examine the effect of macroeconomic performance on poverty in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. Our study advances research on this issue in a variety of ways: we utilize variation across the states rather than relying on over-time trends for the country as a whole; we analyze cross-state variation in both levels and change over time; we disentangle the impact of three different ...

Despite technological innovation and vast renewable energy sources in rural areas, a significant number of households are living poverty, there is pressing need to come up with strategies mitigate this. This paper presents an overview the Eastern Cape Province, status technologies household poverty coping areas. The analysis this study based on conducted studies Cape. aims help provide deeper u...

Food security is a global challenge embedding complexities including social, economic and environmental fronts. Food security has to be achieved on the quantitative and qualitative level reflected by food availability, food access, food use and their stability. As a result, food security is overlapped to agricultural systems including food production, processing, distribution, retails, delivery...

Prevailing measures on the topics of monetary and non-monetary poverty—as well as economic carbon inequality—are being critically assessed under sustainable development goals (SDGs) with a worldwide perspective. On one hand, poverty headcount ratio indices gap, severity, Watts are core indices. other important inequality such Gini index Palma evaluated in order to find their potentials for poli...

A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Poverty and the Assessment of Educational Poverty in Iran1   E. Aboonoori, Ph.D. * A.A. Saalem, Ph.D. ** J. Arab Yaarmohammadi ***   A multidimensional approach to measuring poverty facilitates the assessment of educational poverty as one of its several dimensions. Utilizing this approach, the overall poverty in Iran in the years of 2005 ...

In the Muslim system, Zakat functions as a means to reduce inequalities and eradicate poverty. Zakat means growth, extension, and purification. It is a usually annual premium charged on all accumulated productive wealth and on a variety of agricultural produce. Various rates are used. In the past, Zakat was paid on a self assessed basis and given to the needy. Due to influence on Sunni M...