A cidade desejada e sublimada por Jorge Amado: os lugares imaginados em Bahia de Todos-os- Santos: guia de ruas e mistérios de Salvador by Ricardo Araújo Barberena

“…However, the underlying structure and the spirit of the book have remained: the production of an encyclopedia of what it means to be/being “baiano” – sceneries, stories, old streets, new avenues, traditions, parties, poverty, joy, churches, candomblé, orishas, and other characters. …”
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PUBLIC POLICY AND INEQUALITY IN NIGERIA: AN INTERROGATION by MOSES DANJUMA BOT, MARIA ELEYI IGOCHE, ANOMNIHE UDOKA TIMDIR

“…The study also recommends for an increase in funding for social safety net programs, such as unemployment benefit, food assistance, in order to help reduce poverty and inequality. …”
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The Problem of Early-Age Marriage in Afghanistan by Nabila Shaheedmal Omari, Osman Özkul

“…Among the main causes of early marriages in Afghanistan are poverty, pressure from parents, the economic situation, education level, and traditional cultural values. …”
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Quel avenir pour le logement social en Tunisie ? by Sami Ben Fguira, Mongi Belarem

“…There was a proliferation of spontaneous habitat, a rise in poverty and an accentuation of the phenomena of socio-spatial segregation. …”
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Evaluation of Sanandaj city vulnerability to earthquake using classification tree analysis (CTA) model by shahrivar rostaei, rahim heydari chyaneh, ayoub zoghi

“…As cities become more physically in structure and demographically wider, the rate of crises is also increasing consequently, and cities become more vulnerable to natural disasters for a variety of reasons, including economic and cultural poverty, fault alignment and non-compliance to regulations of earthquake-related issues.  …”
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FOSTERING AGROPRENEURSHIP PRACTICE IN NIGERIA: A LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE by Olamitunji DAKARE

“…The review is in line with the need to create sustainable development through agropreneurship initiatives: in an economy presently facing a high rate of unemployment, extreme poverty, poor earnings from foreign exchange, and insufficiency of food items, this article argues for the need to adopt an overarching agriculture value chain to ensure a rapid industrial and economic development across Nigeria. …”

COMBATTING CULTISM IN NIGERIA’S DIGITAL SOCIETY BY LEVERAGING YOUTHPRENUERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT by CHIDI FRANKLIN UZOIGWE, OZINNA OKOYE

“…Its findings indicate that cultism is deeply entrenched in Nigerian society, fueled by factors such as poverty, unemployment, and political instability. …”
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Subjective experience of mental states in conditions of family deprivation by A.I. Ahmetzyanova, L.V. Artishcheva

“…It has been shown that the experience is characterized by poverty and a small coverage of used mental states characteristics and by the stinginess of the content.…”
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Determinants of Modern Agricultural Technology Adoption for Teff Production: The Case of Minjar Shenkora Woreda, North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Abebaw Hailu Fikire, Girma Mulugeta Emeru

“…Since then, the implementation of modern agricultural technologies has remained a promising strategy in Ethiopia for increasing agricultural production, achieving food security, and reducing poverty. The objective of the study is to examine the determinants of modern agricultural technology adoption for teff production in Minjar Shenkora woreda. …”
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United Nations and Gender Equality in Nigeria: A Reference of 2010-2020 by IJE O. JAIRUS, AJIYA SARAH, KARUEJE UCHE CHRISTOPER

“…The study revealed that the menace of marginalization, deprivation, poverty, exploitation, discrimination, oppression and the violation of women's rights by men, institutions, religion and culture is still ongoing in Nigeria despite the main goal of the United Nations Organization (UNO) which is the protection and promotion of the fundamental human rights and the freedom of both men and women without discrimination on the basis of race, sex, language or religion. …”
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Digital platforms as the dominant vector of the global labor market development by N. E. Petrovskaya

“…Employment does not always save millions of workers from extreme poverty.The author highlights the lack of social guarantees, including hospital, medical and other types of insurance, including pension plans as one of the key problems of employment on digital labor platforms. …”
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Association between food insecurity and overweight: Protocol for a systematic review based on intersectionality of gender and race/color. by Renatha Celiana da Silva Brito, Poliana de Araújo Palmeira, Jackson Silva Lima Laurentino, Rônisson Thomas de Oliveira Silva, Ana Beatriz Macêdo Venâncio Dos Santos, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli da Costa Oliveira

“…In Brazil, FI is associated with both malnutrition and increased obesity and is intertwined with racial and gender inequalities, perpetuating cycles of poverty and social exclusion. This protocol aims to select observational studies that evaluate the association between food insecurity and overweight and their intersectional discussions (gender and race/color). …”
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GREEN GROWTH, JUST TRANSITION AND DECENT WORKS IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND COMBATTING CLIMATE CHANGE by Çiğdem Tuğaç

“…Today, it is understood by countries that a new growth approach should be applied in order to ensure the sustainable use of scarce natural resources, combatting negative effects of climate change and reduce poverty while realizing economic development. The view that environmentally friendly investments aren’t cost effective is changing and countries want to take advantage of the opportunities offered by green growth. …”
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Inter-Faith Dialogue, Peace Building and Conflict Transformation in Nigeria by Emmanuel Achus Jah, Damila Kevin Mabas

“…The challenges of interfaith dialogue are lack of focus by interfaith dialogue practitioners, proselytization by some participants, religious hegemony and religious extremism.The study recommends that the emphasis of citizenship Rights, poverty alleviation schemes, peace education,restorative justice system. …”
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From “Hartz IV” to “Bürgergeld” — Merely Old Wine in New Bottles? by Maximilian Blömer, Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl

“…This could reduce the rate of non-takeup and thus hidden poverty. One criticism of such a reform of Hartz IV is that it would increase the number of transfer recipients. …”
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Towards carbon neutrality: mapping mass retrofit opportunities in Cambridge, UK by Humberto Mora, Ronita Bardhan

“…This study proposes a methodology and a proof of concept to target and prioritize mass retrofitting of residential buildings in the UK using open building datasets that combine fabric energy efficiency and fuel poverty to meet the net-zero targets. The methodological framework uses a series of multi-variate statistical and geospatial methods that consider urban, socio-economic and physical attributes. …”
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The Merits and Pitfalls of Participatory Action Research: Navigating Tokenism and Inclusion with Lived Experience Members by Tracy Smith-Carrier, Rana Van Tuyl

“…This paper explores the merits and pitfalls of involving people with lived and living experiences of a phenomenon of interest (e.g., poverty, hunger, housing deprivation) in Participatory Action Research (PAR). …”
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Long-Term Trend of Climate Change and Drought Assessment in the Horn of Africa by Mihretab G. Ghebrezgabher, Taibao Yang, Xuemei Yang

“…Thus, an immediate action is required to tackle drought and hence poverty and famine in the HOA.…”
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Tourisme et sociétés locales en Amérique latine : une approche « sentipensante » de l´agent de développement puis de l´universitaire. by Samuel Jouault

“…Alternative tourism has developed in parallel with globalization and the expansion of the tourism phenomenon as the qualitative shift made in recent years and is commonly presented as a solution to fight poverty and protect natural resources. But the commercialization, dissemination and promotion of these initiatives, among others, tend to be weak and result in initiatives not meeting the objectives set. …”
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Longitudinal Study of Credit Union Research: From Credit-Provision to Cooperative Principles, the Urban Economy and Gender Issues by Carlos Gabriel Parrales Choez, María del Carmen Valls Martínez, Pedro Antonio Martín-Cervantes

“…In the same way, the implementation of strategic diagrams based on Callon’s procedure has facilitated the classification of the most important terms linked to financial cooperativism, which has served to detect future lines of research related to the terms (among others): asymmetric-information, capital-provision, cooperative-principles, customer-reduction, gender-issues, neoinstitutionalism, poverty, and urban-economy.…”
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