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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Impoverishment"”.
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Does land dispossession equal impoverishment or liberation in rural China?: evidence from Zhejiang Province, China
Land has consistently been central when disentangling the complex picture of rural China. It is also considered to be the fundamental asset for Chinese farmers. Drawing on extensive literature review and qualitative data collected from several villages and various other institutions such as …
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The effects of environmental switchovers between enrichment and impoverishment on brain and behavior in mice
… animals between environmental enrichment and impoverishment, and assessing the degree to which effects of the first environmental exposure are maintained.</p> <p>This second approach has rarely been applied, and the few reports have been somewhat contradictory. One of the first reported that …
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Financial protection in Uganda's health system catastrophic and impoverishment effects of out-of-pocket health care payments
This study assesses the impact of out-of-pocket payments for health care on the welfare of households in Uganda. Using data from the nationally representative Uganda National Household Survey 2009/10, the study assesses the extent and intensity of catastrophic out-of-pocket health care payments …
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Financial health protection in Swaziland: an assessment of financial catastrophe and impoverishment from out-of-pocket payments
… This paper assesses financial catastrophe and impoverishment from out - of - pocket payments and associated factors that predict them in Swaziland. The Swaziland Household Income and Expenditure Survey (SHIES) for 2009/2010 was used for the analyses. Financial catastrophe was assessed using a …
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Confronting poverty and impoverishment : the challenges. : A comparative study of some church responses in South Africa and Zambia
'Absolute poverty', wrote Robert McNamara, President of the World Bank, in 1978, is "a condition of life so limited by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality and low life expectancy as to be beneath an reasonable definition of human decency" (Cited in Kevin …
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Floristic homogenization and impoverishment : herb layer changes over two decades in deciduous forest patches of the Weser-Elbe region (NW Germany)
… local extinctions may result. This biotic impoverishment would seriously conflict with regional conservation goals. Community assembly mechanisms changed at the local level particularly at sites that experienced disturbance by forest management activities between the sampling periods …
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Black Diasporic Disasters and the Africanization of Poverty in Western Print Media: a Case Study of Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian Earthquake in the New York Times
… in January 2010, images and readings of black impoverishment were rife. I argue during both disasters, news media depicted both populations as Africanized, discursively linking blackness and black African-ness with impoverishment. I conducted a critical discourse analysis of eighty New York …
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Distributed optimality
… zwei substantielle Beiträge zu DO, Lokalität und Impoverishment. Lokalität erlaubt eine formal einfache Interpretation von DO, während sich Impoverishment als unverzichtbar erweist, um Kongruenz-Morphologie adäquat zu beschreiben. Die empirische Grundlage der Arbeit sind die komplexen …
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Recovering sample diversity in Rao-Blackwellized particle filters for simultaneous localization and mapping
… thesis considers possible solutions to sample impoverishment, a well-known failure mode of the Rao-Blackwellized particle filter (RBPF) in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAMI) situations that arises when precise feature measurements yield a limited perceptual distribution relative to a …
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Regional Variations in Polish Peasant Farm Efficiency: Composed Error, Spatial Econometric and Spatial Interaction Techniques
… most important issues for the continued rural impoverishment in Polish peasant farming. This situation is particularly relevant, given the policy implications for Poland's impending European Union membership.
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A systematic review of the assessment of out-of-pocket payment removal policies in reducing the economic burden caused by direct and indirect costs of HIV service utilization in South Africa
… but can also lead to catastrophic spending and impoverishment. For people living with HIV (PLWH), health expenses can threaten their financial wellbeing due to HIV treatment requiring multiple health visits and other healthrelated costs. We examine how the UHC policy of user fee removal has …
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Surgical catastrophic health expenditure at New Somerset Hospital, a South African public sector hospital
… poverty lines and was defined according to new impoverishment or worsening impoverishment, as a result of OOP expenditure on the surgical admission. Multivariate regression analysis was used to assess the relationship between OOP payments and per capita HHE, age, type of procedure, department to …
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The Resource Curse and Peru: A Potential Threat for the Future?
… economic growth while for others stagnation and impoverishment? The resource curse theory has helped economists explain this observation. This work examines how Peru has been able to produce strong economic growth in the last 20 years despite the economy’s strong dependence on its natural …
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Causes and Consequences of Displacement Decision-making in Banhine National Park, Mozambique
… on power. I investigated consequences using the Impoverishment Risk and Reconstruction (IRR) framework. Methods included interviews, focus groups, and observations involving BNP-area residents; park staff; district, provincial, and national-level government employees from various sectors; NGO and …
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Causes and Consequences of Displacement Decision-making in Banhine National Park, Mozambique
… on power. I investigated consequences using the Impoverishment Risk and Reconstruction (IRR) framework. Methods included interviews, focus groups, and observations involving BNP-area residents; park staff; district, provincial, and national-level government employees from various sectors; NGO and …
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Equity in Health Care Financing in Ghana
… care financing mechanisms, the catastrophic and impoverishment effect of direct health care payments, as well as evaluating the factors affecting enrolment in the national health insurance scheme (NHIS), which is the intended means for achieving equitable health financing and universal coverage …
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Economic consequences for households of illness and of paying health care in Zimbabwe: A case study
… payments, catastrophic health expenditure (CHE), impoverishment and the factors, (particularly socio-economic factors) associated with them. In addition, this study determines the strategies that households employ to cope with the financial burden of OOP payments in Zimbabwe. Data was collected …
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How the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced women’s employment and their health: an inquiry into their lived experiences
… of online interviews revealed intensified impoverishment, persisting inequalities, intersectional oppression, a deterioration of women’s mental health, and the inadequacy of existing public policies to address the cycle of neoliberal austerity and poor health experienced by racialized women …
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"Motherhood brings Joy and Happiness", Discourses of the Ideal Mother in South Africa
… revealed high levels of stress, shame and impoverishment. Asymmetrical power dynamics favouring men combined with a systemic lack of supportive social and economic policies for mothers often resulted in their oppression, grant dependence and poverty. Conclusion: The research demonstrated …
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"Motherhood brings Joy and Happiness", Discourses of the Ideal Mother in South Africa
… revealed high levels of stress, shame and impoverishment. Asymmetrical power dynamics favouring men combined with a systemic lack of supportive social and economic policies for mothers often resulted in their oppression, grant dependence and poverty. Conclusion: The research demonstrated …
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