Health Performance Evaluation of Rural Drinking Water Safety Project Based on Time-varying DID Method by GUO Xiaohong, LI Changyan

“…As an important project of poverty alleviation,the “Rural Drinking Water Safety Project” is a key livelihood policy to solve the drinking water shortage for rural residents.Based on the panel data of 450 villages and communities from 150 counties in China in 2011,2013,2015,and 2018,the time-varying difference-in-difference method is used to evaluate the impacts of the Rural Drinking Water Safety Project on residents' health conditions.In addition,a further robustness test is conducted combined with matching and the difference-in-difference method.The conclusions of the empirical analysis are as follows.①Rural Drinking Water Safety Project can significantly improve the overall health and physical functions of rural residents and relieve their mental depression and physical pain.②Further heterogeneous analysis finds that the Project has a higher effect on the health improvement of female residents than that of male residents,and especially it can significantly relieve women's physical pain.③The Project has a significant effect on the improvement of residents from good family economic conditions but cannot greatly improve residents from poor families.This paper can provide policy reference for the further improvement of the Rural Drinking Water Safety Project.…”
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Homeless Aging Veterans in Transition: A Life-Span Perspective by Carla J. Thompson, Nancy L. Bridier

“…Veterans are three times more likely to become homeless than the general population if veterans live in poverty or are minority veterans. This mixed methods study emphasized a life-span perspective approach for exploring factors influencing normative aging and life-quality of 39 homeless veterans in Alabama and Florida. …”
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The Impact of Fiscal Policies on Inclusive Growth in Turkiye by Özgür Tonus, Bağdat Sıla Avcı

“…Countries aim to inclusive growth to find a common solution the problems that poverty, income inequality, and unemployment. …”
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IMPLICATIONS OF XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS ON NIGERIANS AND NIGERIA-SOUTH AFRICA DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS: A REVIEW OF RE-CURRENT ISSUES by ABDULRASHEED ABDULYAKEEN, MUHAMMAD RABIU

“…Finding of this study revealed that massive evacuation of foreign businesses from South Africa have increase the level of poverty and unemployment in South Africa. It also found that competition over jobs and government housing is perhaps the most frequently cited explanation for South African xenophobia, the evidence is mixed. …”
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Environmental history of the Trapananda Archipelagos (Northern Patagonia, Chile): challenges for the conservation of the blue whale by María Eugenia Solari, Juan Carlos Skewes, Magdalena Navarro, Fabian Paillacheo

“…The social landscape of this coastlineis characterized by poverty and passage between two well known regionChiloe and Austral Patagonia. …”
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Exploring shifts in values among urban Senegalese: The impact of global crises on social and cultural norms. by Yachiyo Tobita, Mandiaye Diagne, Joseph Bassama, Moussa Ndong, Mor Gueye, Kiyokazu Ujiie

“…Furthermore, the proportion of households spending less than $3.50 per person per day-below the lower-middle-income class poverty line-increased by 11.05%. Our analysis indicates a decline in values such as benevolence, universalism, hedonism, and self-direction. …”
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Hybrydowość kulturowa w przestrzeniach wielokulturowych by Börries Kuzmany

“…The paper tackles both the entangled cultural backgrounds and multilingualism of many authors, artists, and cultural entrepreneurs and recurrent topics that appear throughout Galicia’s cultural production like the Carpathian Mountains or the theme of poverty and religiosity. The article further examines the impact of national movements on the cultural landscape of Galicia. …”
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Sustainable Homestay Tourism for Enhancing Rural Livelihood in the Uttarakhand Himalaya: A Study of the Tons River Basin by Prasad Sati Vishwambhar, Banergee Surajit

“…However, the people of the Himalayan region face poverty, and the area lacks adequate infrastructure, particularly in terms of accommodation and transportation. …”
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Clustering the countries of the Asia-Pacific by values of inclusive economic growth by S. S. Matveevskii, L. R. Borisova

“…The Asian Development Bank (hereinafter referred to as the Bank) purposefully influences inclusive economic growth (hereinafter referred to as IEG) in the countries of the Asia-Pacific (hereinafter referred to as APAC) with the help of its own IEG model and allows assessing public administration, economic growth, social support, using 35 indicators, which contributes to reduction of poverty and inequality. For each country the Bank develops its own strategy of cooperation. …”
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Climate Change and its Impacts on Social Structures in Marginalized Communities by Sabira Zitouni, Salima Abdeslam, Amar Boussakra

“…The study suggests that climate change exacerbates poverty and social discrimination, which negatively impacts the capacity of marginalized communities to adapt to environmental changes. …”
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Empowering equality: Advancing quality education in the contemporary global landscape by Walter Odondi

“…The study introduces the concept of ‘Learning Poverty’, highlighting the worldwide problem of children's inability to read and comprehend fundamental texts, which is especially prevalent in sub‐Saharan Africa. …”
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Representation of Fictional Characters with Disabilities in Selected Crime Novels of Oͅládèͅjoͅ Òkédìjí by Oͅlálérè Adéyeͅmí

“…He identifies with the plights of a person with a disability, they are mostly victims of poverty, hunger, and crimes in the Post-colonial Nigerian society; and treats all the fictional characters with dignity and honor in line with Yorùbá thoughts and beliefs.  …”
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Critique and Review of Time, Consumption and Everyday Life by Mohammad Abbaszadeh, Farhad Shamsi Matanagh

“…Among the common themes of the social sciences in Iran, the subject of time has been neglected in spite of its importance, and the poverty of the theoretical literature of sociology around time is quite evident with regard to the books and articles published. …”
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MODEL PERENCANAAN PENGEMBANGAN WILAYAH KEPULAUAN NUSA TENGGARA by UTON RUSTAN HARUN

“…The result is the development of socio-economic inequality of small islands than large islands are reflected from poverty and backwardness of eastern Indonesia this paper - which was based on the use of Dynamic Simulation Model - trying to prove the importance of the spatial arrangement of the islands based on ecosystem boundaries (known as Ecoregion). …”
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Vulnérabilité et Stratégies durables de gestion des risques : Une étude appliquée aux ménages ruraux de Madagascar by Claire Gondard-Delcroix, Sophie Rousseau

“…It highlights the most efficient way to reduce poverty by improving men’s capabilities in the long term. …”
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European Experience in Regulating Human Right to Free Secondary Legal Aid by P. Valko

“…There author has defined two key conditions for ensuring human right to free legal aid: 1) the condition of the state or the “poverty and need test”, which is based on a financial criterion, which allows to determine the lack of sufficient funds to pay for legal aid of a lawyer; 2) a condition of the essence or a “test for the interest of justice” that links the provision of free legal aid to the requirements of justice. …”
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IMPACT OF GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC FACTORS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN WEST AFRICA by Oluwaseun Isiaka Adekoya, Musa Ilias Biala

“… Understanding the drivers of informal employment would go a long way in addressing such problems as underdevelopment, poverty, and unemployment. Therefore, this study investigates the impact of governance and economic factors on informal employment in West Africa. …”
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The Mechanism of Entrepreneurial Resource Bricolage on Entrepreneurial Behavior in Underdeveloped Regions by Sheng Ouyang, Linji Luo, Kaili Chen, Zhaoyang Liu

“…Leveraging limited resources to enhance entrepreneurial effectiveness and contribute to poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship has attracted significant academic interest. …”
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Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in the Agricultural Sector on the Socio-Economic Development of Zambia Republic by Inna V. Andronova, Lubinda Haabazoka, Aaron Mwewa Kasonde

“…Zambia is among the developing countries experiencing increasing poverty, declining productivity, and increasing dependence on raw materials such as copper, which is most affected by the volatility of global markets, and which has had a huge impact on the country’s level of economic prosperity. …”
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TAPPING THE OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT (AGOA) FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by ADIE, EDWARD IDAGU, OMALE MATTHEW ADOYI

“…These opportunities are in the areas of trade and investment, job creation and poverty alleviation, textile industry, where women can own their companies, capacity building and technical assistance, as well the oil sector. …”
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