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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Regional inequalities"”.
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Human Development and Regional Inequalities: Spatial Analysis Across Brazilian Municipalities
This dissertation draws three main conclusions concerning the relationship between human development and public intervention. First, the tendency to allow an uncontrolled decentralization process, common in many developing countries, may need to be replaced with some coordination mechanisms. …
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Regional Inequalities in Mortality in Bulgaria // Регионални неравенства в смъртността в България
[EN] Regional mortality differences can be used while making regional health care policy decisions. Aims: To measure regional differences in age-standardized mortality rates from all causes of death, from Class II, IX, X, and XX and different specific causes of death for all 28 regions in Bulgaria …
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Analysis of the problem of gender, class, and regional inequalities in peripheral states: A case study of Ghana
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Levelling Up and Territorial Cohesion: The Places that Now Matter? French and British Regional Policy and Institutions since 2017
… and European integration, have seen growing regional inequalities. Managing these economic, social and political tensions between prosperous and lagging areas has become a major challenge for policy-makers, increasingly interested in territorialised, or regional, policies. This is …
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Decentralization, Structural Change and Regional Disparities in Colombia
… between 1968 and 2000 in terms of interregional and intraregional disparities. The results indicate that spatial spillover effects increase the intra and inter regional inequalities in educational infrastructure. While decentralization is associated with higher infrastructure growth …
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The way we see it: an analysis of economically disadvantaged young people's experiences and perceptions of social and economic health in their semi-rural community
… of local citizens if they aim to interrupt regional health disparities. A key objective of this research is to expose and challenge gender, class, and regional inequalities through an analysis of young adults' social and economic health experiences and perceptions. Drawing primarily upon …
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Beyond the scores: A critical realist study of the causes of regional educational inequality in Kazakhstan
… the extent to which educational policies address regional inequalities. Grounded in critical theory (Bourdieu, 1986; Gibson, 1986) and Bronfenbrenner’s (1978) Ecological model, it employs Critical realist thematic analysis (Fryer, 2022) to analyse interviews and focus groups with school directors, …
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The economics of devolution: evidence from Northern Ireland 1920-1972: evidence from Northern Ireland 1920-1972
… of policy-making powers is beneficial for regional economic performance, by examining the subnational government at Stormont, between 1920 and 1972. Greater fiscal decentralisation within the UK has been put forward as a solution to growing regional inequalities in economic performance, but …
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Three essays on social dynamics and land-use change: framework, model and estimator
Simulations of future regional land-use change help planners and policymakers understand how scenarios with alternative public policy and investment choices will play out in the future, especially in conjunction with different economic and demographic trends. Models used to simulate land-use change …
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Women's status, state contexts and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries
… undernutrition is exacerbated by structural regional inequalities and the prevalence of contaminated water more than by MNC penetration, trade deficits, and debt. Contrary to expectation, women s vulnerable employment has no observable effect on child undernutrition. Several policy …
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Essays on Spatial Inequalities in Income and Education: Econometric Evidence from Pakistan
… capital. In this context recent literature in regional growth and development has highlighted how crucial it is to analyse socio-economic phenomena through the lens of spatial concepts such as density, distance, neighbourhood, and agglomeration. This dissertation emphasizes this fact in three …
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Reassessing New Labour's Political Economy: A study of housing and regional economic policy
This thesis is a study of housing policy and regional economic policy under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, which uses interviews, archives, and public documents to explore the spatial dimension within New Labour’s wider political economy. It focusses particularly on the work of John Prescott’s …
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Análise do perfil epidemiológico e molecular do SARS-CoV-2 em dois municípios do estado da Bahia entre 2020 e 2022.
… was heterogeneous and reflected deep social and regional inequalities. The emergence of viral variants carrying mutations in the genome, particularly in the Spike protein, has influenced transmissibility, clinical severity, and public health impact. Spatial dispersion analysis of the virus …
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PRO-POOR PLANNING: A Tool for Strategic Territorial Planning and a Conceptual Framework Drawn from Studies in Colombia and Costa Rica
… of civil society is poor, and inter-regional inequalities still persist. Hence, it argued that the causal link between decentralization and democratic development in Latin America appears to be tenuous, which helps to understand why the impact of local planning practice on poverty …
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Modelo territorial para el desarrollo regional en México : propuesta de regiones objetivo con enfoque de cohesión
… diferentes para la reducción de las disparidades regionales y sus resultados han sido distintos en la reducción de estas. Mientras que en la UE se ha dado una reducción de las mismas, ejemplo del éxito de la política regional implementada, en contraste, en México se han tenido una serie de …