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Work–Family Conflict in Low-Income Households
… of people in the U.S., especially those of lower socioeconomic status. Moreover, the vast inequalities that exists based on income alone do not allow a grand portion of low-income workers access to the work policies in place. As a result, poor families face challenges that make it more …
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Survival Strategies of Low-Income Households in a Colombian City
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DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING FRAMEWORK FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS IN PAKISTAN
… affordability is mostly assessed based on the income to expense (IER). However, researchers (Anacker, 2019; Affordable Housing Commission, 2019; Matt and Marshall, 2019) are agreed that housing affordability is more than housing (rent, mortgage and utility bills) and non-housing expenses …
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Health uncertainty and food consumption in low-income households in Lima, Peru
… health uncertainty and food consumption among low-income households in developing countries. The particular sample households are from Lima, Peru's bottom expenditure quartile. Several food and nonfood inputs are important factors affecting health status and health variance. In addition, there …
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'Free Basic Water' and cost recovery : impact on low-income households in Grabouw
… sustainable. However, as this policy allowed municipalities to cut off the water supply of consumers who defaulted in their municipal payments, government's stance on non-payment - that it was a residual culture of the rates' boycotts of the apartheid era - drew fire, with critics …
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Assessment of U.S. manufactured system built wooden homes as an affordable housing alternative for low income households in developing countries
Millions of people around the developing world struggle to obtain safe, decent and affordable housing. The United States of America has substantially improved the residential construction sector by engineering new materials and developing efficient systems in wood construction. The goal of this …
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Development and application of a multi-criteria decision-support framework for planning rural energy supply interventions in low-income households in South Africa
… environment underlying energy choice among low-income households in isolated rural areas and informal urban settlements in South Africa. The framework developed includes a multi-objective optimisation technique that produced an approximation of a Pareto front linked to an a priori …
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Impact of the free Basic Education Policy on Enrolment and Completion Rates of Pupils from Low-Income Households in Selected Basic Schools of Lusaka, Zambia
… enrolment and completion rates of pupils from low-income households in selected Basic Schools of Lusaka, Zambia. The study used a survey research design. The study sample comprised 100 Grade 7 pupils, 5 head teachers and 40 parents. Purposive Sampling was used to select 40 parents/guardians, 5 …
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Impact of the free Basic Education Policy on Enrolment and Completion Rates of Pupils from Low-Income Households in Selected Basic Schools of Lusaka, Zambia
… enrolment and completion rates of pupils from low-income households in selected Basic Schools of Lusaka, Zambia. The study used a survey research design. The study sample comprised 100 Grade 7 pupils, 5 head teachers and 40 parents. Purposive Sampling was used to select 40 parents/guardians, 5 …
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Caught in between policies: the intertwined challenges of access to land and housing in Gaborone, Botswana
… to facilitate land and housing access for low-income households in Gaborone. Even so, restricted access to these assets remains an enormous task, proven complex and problematic to resolve. The empirical evidence specifies the predominant situation articulated by a clash of rationalities …
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Domestic energy use database for integrated energy planning
… has been·the huge gap between rich and poor households in terms of their access to basic energy services. This study explores the essence of shifting from· supply-driven approach to an integrated framework in energy planning order to evolve policies that match national goals and objectives …
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Income Inequality, Household Borrowing, and the Business Cycle
… the United States has experienced increasing income inequality while transitioning to a consumption-led economy. This dissertation investigates the foundations of the 2008 recession and offers an explanation for the slow growth recovery. Three distinct papers examine a different aspect of …
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An analysis of the ability of Virginia's water systems to finance system improvements
… predicted, and the effect of increased rates on low-income households is examined. The study concluded that the problem facing Virginia's water systems is not an inability to finance system improvements. The increased rates expected as a result may, however, impose hardships on low-income …
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Essays in Food Retail Demand
… that shape the diet quality choices of the U.S. households. In particular,</p><p>I focus on the low-income households because these households are consuming</p><p>food of lower diet quality. Understanding whether and how income is restricting these</p><p>households in their food choices is …
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An exploration of household energy use patterns among grid electrified households in low-income rural and peri-urban communities in South Africa
… therefore explores the energy use patterns of low-income grid electrified households in rural and peri-urban areas of South Africa – rural and peri-urban areas being the two areas where majority of the poor reside - as a means to inform insights on the energy use of the poor within these two …
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Win-Win-Win? Evaluating the Climate, Health, and Equity Benefits of Retrofitting Low Income Housing in the US
… the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming below two degrees Celsius. Energy efficiency retrofits can also provide significant health and economic benefits, especially for low-income residents. These non-energy benefits are often excluded from policy analysis of energy efficiency programs …
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Expanding the housing supply through conversions of the existing stock
A large share of households remain poorly housed in the United States despite the steady improvement in overall housing conditions throughout the postwar period. Households that face the greatest difficulty in gaining access to suitable housing are those with low-income, i.e. those in the market …
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Buying to Thrive: Exploring the Potential for Market-Based Approaches to Contribute to Increases in Diet Diversity in Mozambique
… that are essential for human health. Low-income populations in low- and middle-income countries are especially vulnerable to these deficiencies. There are three priority interventions used to reduce micronutrient deficiencies and improve overall nutrition status — supplementation, …
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Financing development of multifamily low income rental housing in Bogotá, Columbia
… shortage of adequate affordable housing for the low income households. By the year 2000, Bogota alone had a housing shortage of about 540 thousand houses concentrated mainly on the three lower socioeconomic levels which represented 86% of the population of the city. As a response to the problem, …
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From vacant space to active place: leveraging state-owned land for affordable housing - a case study of Youngsfield
… across Cape Town is a pressing issue faced by low-income households. Attempts have been made at addressing the issue through affordable and free housing subsidies being implemented, but these have not improved access to opportunities for low-income households. These land distribution patterns …
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