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This paper analyzes poverty in rural and semi-urban areas of Mexico (localities with less than 2,500 and 15,000 inhabitants, respectively) and it provides guidance on a social agenda and poverty alleviation strategy for rural Mexico. The analyses are based on INIGH and ENE datasets for 1992-2002. Monetary extreme poverty affected 42 percent of the rural population in dispersed rural areas and 21 percent in semi-urban areas in 2002, slightly less than one decade earlier. Most of the rural poor live in dispersed rural areas and 13.2 million people live in poverty in rural Mexico with less than 15,000 inhabitants. It is disproportionately a feature of households whose heads main job is in the agricultural sector, as self-employed farmers or rural laborers, and that have at most a primary education. However, the incidence of extreme rural poverty has declined since 1996 but at a slower pace than the decline in urban poverty. Hence, the rural-urban poverty gap increased in recent years and in some places extreme poverty is at least four times higher in rural than urban areas. Moreover, not only is the income gap in urban areas increasing, but also the gap between richer and poorer segments of the population.
Agricultural Sector --- Extreme Poverty --- Farmers --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Household Surveys --- Income --- Income Gap --- Population Policies --- Poverty --- Poverty Alleviation --- Poverty Alleviation Strategy --- Poverty Gap --- Poverty Line --- Poverty Lines --- Poverty Profile --- Poverty Reduction --- Rural --- Rural Areas --- Rural Development --- Rural Laborers --- Rural People --- Rural Poor --- Rural Population --- Rural Poverty --- Rural Poverty Reduction
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China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen, propelled by the rural-urban income gap and by the growing disparity between highly educated urban professionals and the urban working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of policy features. Restrictions on rural-urban migration have limited opportunities for the relatively poor rural population. The inability to sell or mortgage rural land has further reduced opportunities. China has a uniquely decentralized fiscal system that has relied on local government to fund basic health and education. The result has been that poor villages could not afford to provide good services, and poor households could not afford the high private costs of basic public services. Ironically, the large trade surplus that China has built up in recent years is a further problem, in that it stimulates an urban industrial sector that no longer creates many jobs while restricting the government's ability to increase spending to improve services and address disparities. The government's recent policy shift to encourage migration, fund education and health for poor areas and poor households, and rebalance the economy away from investment and exports toward domestic consumption and public services should help reduce social disparities.
Access to Finance --- Debt Markets --- Emerging Markets --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Income --- Income gap --- Income inequality --- Inequality --- Poor --- Poor areas --- Poor households --- Population Policies --- Poverty line --- Poverty Reduction --- Private Sector Development --- Rural --- Rural Development --- Rural population --- Rural Poverty Reduction
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This paper analyzes poverty in rural and semi-urban areas of Mexico (localities with less than 2,500 and 15,000 inhabitants, respectively) and it provides guidance on a social agenda and poverty alleviation strategy for rural Mexico. The analyses are based on INIGH and ENE datasets for 1992-2002. Monetary extreme poverty affected 42 percent of the rural population in dispersed rural areas and 21 percent in semi-urban areas in 2002, slightly less than one decade earlier. Most of the rural poor live in dispersed rural areas and 13.2 million people live in poverty in rural Mexico with less than 15,000 inhabitants. It is disproportionately a feature of households whose heads main job is in the agricultural sector, as self-employed farmers or rural laborers, and that have at most a primary education. However, the incidence of extreme rural poverty has declined since 1996 but at a slower pace than the decline in urban poverty. Hence, the rural-urban poverty gap increased in recent years and in some places extreme poverty is at least four times higher in rural than urban areas. Moreover, not only is the income gap in urban areas increasing, but also the gap between richer and poorer segments of the population.
Agricultural Sector --- Extreme Poverty --- Farmers --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Household Surveys --- Income --- Income Gap --- Population Policies --- Poverty --- Poverty Alleviation --- Poverty Alleviation Strategy --- Poverty Gap --- Poverty Line --- Poverty Lines --- Poverty Profile --- Poverty Reduction --- Rural --- Rural Areas --- Rural Development --- Rural Laborers --- Rural People --- Rural Poor --- Rural Population --- Rural Poverty --- Rural Poverty Reduction
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China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen, propelled by the rural-urban income gap and by the growing disparity between highly educated urban professionals and the urban working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of policy features. Restrictions on rural-urban migration have limited opportunities for the relatively poor rural population. The inability to sell or mortgage rural land has further reduced opportunities. China has a uniquely decentralized fiscal system that has relied on local government to fund basic health and education. The result has been that poor villages could not afford to provide good services, and poor households could not afford the high private costs of basic public services. Ironically, the large trade surplus that China has built up in recent years is a further problem, in that it stimulates an urban industrial sector that no longer creates many jobs while restricting the government's ability to increase spending to improve services and address disparities. The government's recent policy shift to encourage migration, fund education and health for poor areas and poor households, and rebalance the economy away from investment and exports toward domestic consumption and public services should help reduce social disparities.
Access to Finance --- Debt Markets --- Emerging Markets --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Income --- Income gap --- Income inequality --- Inequality --- Poor --- Poor areas --- Poor households --- Population Policies --- Poverty line --- Poverty Reduction --- Private Sector Development --- Rural --- Rural Development --- Rural population --- Rural Poverty Reduction
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Social stratification --- United States --- E-books --- United States of America --- Billionaires --- Rich people --- Environmental ethics --- Environmental policy --- Income distribution --- Social conflict --- 1 percent. --- 1 percenters. --- American West. --- David Naguib Pellow. --- Lisa Sun-Hee Park. --- The Slums of Aspen. --- affluenza. --- discrimination. --- environmental issues. --- environmental justice. --- environmental sustainability. --- environmentalism. --- eviction. --- gentrification. --- income gap. --- income inequality. --- land conservation. --- low-wage labor. --- one percent. --- one percenters. --- rural America. --- rural poor. --- social stratification. --- undocumented immigration. --- wealth concentration. --- Political activity --- Social life and customs. --- West (U.S.) --- Economic conditions.
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How rich people use nature to enhance their status, find rural salvation, and resolve the complex predicaments in their livesBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face. Justin Farrell spent five years in Teton County, Wyoming, the richest county in the United States, and a community where income inequality is the worst in the nation. He conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews, gaining unprecedented access to tech CEOs, Wall Street financiers, oil magnates, and other prominent figures in business and politics. He also talked with the rural poor who live among the ultra-wealthy and often work for them. The result is a penetrating account of the far-reaching consequences of the massive accrual of wealth, and an eye-opening and sometimes troubling portrait of a changing American West where romanticizing rural poverty and conserving nature can be lucrative—socially as well as economically.Weaving unforgettable storytelling with thought-provoking analysis, Billionaire Wilderness reveals how the ultra-wealthy are buying up the land and leveraging one of the most pristine ecosystems in the world to climb even higher on the socioeconomic ladder. The affluent of Teton County are people burdened by stigmas, guilt, and status anxiety—and they appropriate nature and rural people to create more virtuous and deserving versions of themselves. This incisive and compelling book reveals the hidden connections between wealth concentration and the environment, two of the most pressing and contentious issues of our time.
Billionaires --- Rich people --- Environmental ethics --- Environmental policy --- Income distribution --- Social conflict --- 1 percent. --- 1 percenters. --- American West. --- David Naguib Pellow. --- Lisa Sun-Hee Park. --- The Slums of Aspen. --- affluenza. --- discrimination. --- environmental issues. --- environmental justice. --- environmental sustainability. --- environmentalism. --- eviction. --- gentrification. --- income gap. --- income inequality. --- land conservation. --- low-wage labor. --- one percent. --- one percenters. --- rural America. --- rural poor. --- social stratification. --- undocumented immigration. --- wealth concentration. --- Political activity --- Social life and customs. --- West (U.S.) --- Economic conditions.
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We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance separating the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that the poor have not, we often overlook the most critical—their health. The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. In nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, David A. Ansell, MD, has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of his patients. While the contrasts and disparities among Chicago’s communities are particularly stark, the death gap is truly a nationwide epidemic—as Ansell shows, there is a thirty-five-year difference in life expectancy between the healthiest and wealthiest and the poorest and sickest American neighborhoods. If you are poor, where you live in America can dictate when you die. It doesn’t need to be this way; such divisions are not inevitable. Ansell calls out the social and cultural arguments that have been raised as ways of explaining or excusing these gaps, and he lays bare the structural violence—the racism, economic exploitation, and discrimination—that is really to blame. Inequality is a disease, Ansell argues, and we need to treat and eradicate it as we would any major illness. To do so, he outlines a vision that will provide the foundation for a healthier nation—for all. As the COVID-19 mortality rates in underserved communities proved, inequality is all around us, and often the distance between high and low life expectancy can be a matter of just a few blocks. Updated with a new foreword by Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot and an afterword by Ansell, The Death Gap speaks to the urgency to face this national health crisis head-on.
Racism --- Poverty --- Health --- Equality --- Social medicine --- Medical policy --- Health and race --- Discrimination in medical care --- Health aspects --- Health aspects --- Social aspects --- Health aspects --- inequality, community health equity, healthcare, medicine, income gap, wealth disparity, rich and poor, american culture, united states of america, usa, race, chicago, urban spaces, cities, death, epidemic, illness, sickness, treatment, life expectancy, discrimination, social, cultural, racism, mortality, covid-19, pandemic, crisis, poverty, policy.
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This Special Issue is dedicated to sustainable mobility and transport, with a special focus on technological advancements. Global transport systems are significant sources of air, land, and water emissions. A key motivator for this Special Issue was the diversity and complexity of mitigating transport emissions and industry adaptions towards increasingly stricter regulation. Originally, the Special Issue called for papers devoted to all forms of mobility and transports. The papers published in this Special Issue cover a wide range of topics, aiming to increase understanding of the impacts and effects of mobility and transport in working towards sustainability, where most studies place technological innovations at the heart of the matter. The goal of the Special Issue is to present research that focuses, on the one hand, on the challenges and obstacles on a system-level decision making of clean mobility, and on the other, on indirect effects caused by these changes.
shared mobility --- piezoelectric --- energy harvesting --- two-wheelers --- smart city --- business models --- regulation --- logistics --- supply chains --- Finland --- Russia --- high-speed railway --- income gap --- club convergence --- nonlinear time-varying factor model --- research review --- trucks --- emission --- regulations --- modal choice --- sustainable mobility --- Mallorca mobility --- logistic regression --- transport planning --- transport --- sustainability --- mobility --- simulation --- life cycle analysis --- passenger car --- environmental impact --- hybrid electric vehicle --- battery electric vehicle --- electric vehicle policy --- electric vehicle incentives --- charging infrastructure --- green transport strategy --- Gauteng province --- mobile-energy-as-a-service (MEaaS) --- mobile energy --- urban electromobility --- electric vehicle --- renewable energy resource --- bidirectional electric vehicle charging --- natural language processing (NLP) --- topic modelling --- BERT --- transportation --- newspaper --- magazine --- academic research --- journalism --- deep learning --- smart cities
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This Special Issue is dedicated to sustainable mobility and transport, with a special focus on technological advancements. Global transport systems are significant sources of air, land, and water emissions. A key motivator for this Special Issue was the diversity and complexity of mitigating transport emissions and industry adaptions towards increasingly stricter regulation. Originally, the Special Issue called for papers devoted to all forms of mobility and transports. The papers published in this Special Issue cover a wide range of topics, aiming to increase understanding of the impacts and effects of mobility and transport in working towards sustainability, where most studies place technological innovations at the heart of the matter. The goal of the Special Issue is to present research that focuses, on the one hand, on the challenges and obstacles on a system-level decision making of clean mobility, and on the other, on indirect effects caused by these changes.
Film, TV & radio --- shared mobility --- piezoelectric --- energy harvesting --- two-wheelers --- smart city --- business models --- regulation --- logistics --- supply chains --- Finland --- Russia --- high-speed railway --- income gap --- club convergence --- nonlinear time-varying factor model --- research review --- trucks --- emission --- regulations --- modal choice --- sustainable mobility --- Mallorca mobility --- logistic regression --- transport planning --- transport --- sustainability --- mobility --- simulation --- life cycle analysis --- passenger car --- environmental impact --- hybrid electric vehicle --- battery electric vehicle --- electric vehicle policy --- electric vehicle incentives --- charging infrastructure --- green transport strategy --- Gauteng province --- mobile-energy-as-a-service (MEaaS) --- mobile energy --- urban electromobility --- electric vehicle --- renewable energy resource --- bidirectional electric vehicle charging --- natural language processing (NLP) --- topic modelling --- BERT --- transportation --- newspaper --- magazine --- academic research --- journalism --- deep learning --- smart cities
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