Promoting High Achievement for Disadvantaged Students: Co-Designing a School Self-Evaluation Process Aligned to Evidence of Successful Leadership Practice Across Five English Distr... by Maria Cockerill, Tom Grieveson, Stephanie Bingham, Joanne O’Keeffe

“…Nevertheless, a minority of schools demonstrate high achievement for students from high-poverty backgrounds. This paper reports on the process of co-designing a school self-evaluation tool aligned to seven key indicators which previous research findings suggest, if implemented together, enable school leaders to promote high academic achievement and well-being for all children. …”
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Assessment of the living standard of elderly people and their well-being in a changing social environment by R. M. Sadykov

“…It is identified that the Russian pensioners belong to the main group of the poor, especially the lonely ones. Their poverty is determined by a decline in living standards and material security, rising inflation, and the high cost of medical care along with utilities. …”
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Un populisme de la misère : Haïti sous la présidence Aristide (1990-2004) by Laurent Jalabert

“…Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected in 1990 resulting from a great popular movement in his favour in which he stated he wanted to transform his country from unworthy « misery to worthy poverty ». He left his country in 2004, 3 years after a disputed re-election, leaving Haiti in a deteriorated economic and social situation. …”
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Driving sustainability in Indonesia: the importance of corporate citizenship in realizing sustainable development goals by Arif Rahman Hakim, Nurul Asfiah

“…Originality/Value – Exemplary CC implementation has been proven to help various SDGs goals, such as poverty alleviation, improving the quality of education, health, welfare, and action on climate change. …”
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Roundtable Discussion from the Annual Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice Public Lecture on Economies of Violence by Sa’diyya Shaikh, Fatima Seedat, Farah Zeb

“…These events bring up for scrutiny the “Economies of Violence” that continue to sustain the indignity and the poverty which women, queer people, and marginalised black people in South Africa disproportionately experience. …”
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URBAN PLANNING, DEMOLITION OF PROPERTY AND CITIZENS’ DEPRIVATION IN AFRICAN CITIES: A POLYCENTRIC PLANNING PERSEPCTIVE by Samson AKINOLA

“…Using Polycentric Planning and Poverty Reduction Strategy (PPPRS), this paper designs an African Polycentric Urban Environmental Governance Model (APUEGM) capable of mainstreaming citizens-centred institutions in urban areas into socio-economic and political decision making so that citizens (including the urban poor) can participate effectively in decisions on redevelopment, thus entrenching good urban governance, citizens-centred environmental planning and development in Africa. …”
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"Magic Dirt": Transcending Great Divides in Scott McClanahan's Crapalachia by Eva-Maria Müller

“…McClanahan tells family stories of deforestation and disability, mining disasters and mental illness, structural poverty and opportunities denied. His stories are about the slow and fast deaths of forgotten people in forgotten places and he tells them with a ballistic sensibility that opens up new spaces to negotiate difference. …”
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A different story of modern economic science by Oreste Bazzichi, Fabio Reali

“…This revolution of the late Middle Ages, social and market, which was also intellectual and aimed at facing the poverty and injustice of that time, is still repeated today with new faces, experiences, and theories.   …”
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Out-of-school children and the role of social reconstructionism in education in the context of Cambodia: an implication for reform policy by Yem Bunthorn

“…Social implications – Addressing the OOSC in Cambodia is crucial for promoting social equity and breaking the cycle of poverty, highlighting the need for inclusive education policies. …”
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E-Counselling for Learner Support Services in ODL Institutions: A Practical Approach by A. C. Ukwueze

“…Some fundamental challenges facing the use of this innovative platform include power failure, poverty, illiteracy and attitudinal problems towards the use of computers. …”
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African Socialism, the Economy of Affection, and a Concern for Foreign Affairs by Prolific S. Mataruse

“…While he belongs to an older generation of politicians, it is opportune to reflect on his philosophical contributions at a time of extreme poverty and inequality in developing countries, and as Africa largely takes a backseat on the Russia-Ukraine war. …”
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Understanding the distributional effects of recurrent floods in the Philippines by Inga J. Sauer, Brian Walsh, Katja Frieler, David N. Bresch, Christian Otto

“…Summary: Successful recovery from extreme weather events is key to avoid long-term poverty implications. Yet, in disaster prone regions, there may not always be enough time to recover between events. …”
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ON DIGNITY, VULNERABILITY, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND FISHERFOLKS: CHILEAN SUBSISTENCE FISHING ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS by Eduardo Roig Monge

“…Next, we explain why the prohibition of riggings and propulsion enables us to identify economically precarious users and how this prohibition is related to vulnerabilities and poverty as human rights concepts. Finally, we show how the property of indigenous peoples and the culture of fisherfolk populations could impose their inclusion and preferences in access to subsistence fishing resources. …”
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NAVIGATING VIOLENCE AND GENDER EQUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN POLITICAL CONTEXT by ADIGUN, IBIRONKE B. DOMINION, FATAI LATEEF YUSUF

“…Additionally, the intersectionality of violence and gender equality with other social issues, such as poverty and lack of access to education, exacerbates the challenges faced by women in Nigerian politics.  …”
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Human Security in Asia: Interrogating State, Society, and Policy, edited by Debasish Nandy, and Debtanu Majee. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2024. XXI, 346 pp. https://doi.org/10.... by Viktorya Melkonyan

“…This book also analyzes the different situations of Asian countries where economically vulnerable and politically unstable and sometimes broken political systems are unable to easily address the problems of hunger, poverty, illiteracy, militancy, terrorism and ethno-religious conflicts that pose a real threat to human security. …”
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Reduzir a desigualdade, mas até que ponto? Breves comentários a partir da "Vida Boa" de Aristóteles by Robson Antonio Grassi

“…The work is based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which, in Raworth’s (2019) proposal, would be the basis, together with the search for environmental sustainability, for reducing poverty and inequality. However, some more developed countries are already at a greater level of progress in terms of these indicators, and even so, in recent decades, there is strong evidence of an increase in inequality and a reduction in important indicators of the well-being of their population. …”
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The Role of Government micro financing in the Development of Rural Entrepreneurship (Case Study: Radkan Rural District) by Shadi khoob, Hamdollah Sojasi Qeidari, Aliakbar Anabestani

“…Entrepreneurship, a burgeoning force in today's economy, plays a pivotal role in rural development by fostering progress, poverty alleviation, and job creation. However, rural areas often grapple with a scarcity of financial capital essential for business initiation or expansion. …”
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The Measure of Residential Segregation of Socio-Economic Groups by Using Multigroup Indices in Shiraz City by Mohammad Hassan yazdani, Ali Soltani, Hossein Nazmfar, Mohammad Amin Attar

“…Urban segregation has strongly concentrated poverty and created underclass. Different types of urban segregation exist, including income and racial or ethnical segregation, and depending on the contextual mechanisms within a city. …”
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A Book Review of MOOCs Design, Application and Business Models by Mohammad Ali Rostaminezhad

“…The strength of the book is its applicability and relevance, and its weakness was the lack of consistency of content and the mismatch of content with the title and poverty of theoretical foundations. Fluent translation and the correspondence with the main content was one of the most important strengths of the translation, and the need for explanations of the translator in the footnotes and the complete presentation of the abbreviations were the weaknesses of the translation. …”
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Measuring Islamic Modernity: Between Positive Alarms or Setbacks for Democracy in Indonesia by Imam Prayogo, Alin Fithor, Rosazman Hussin

“…Hence, the concept of the state not being in line with society has resulted in today’s Indonesian people living full of poverty, even though they live in a country with abundant earth, air, and water wealth, coupled with captivating and unique seas for the world to see. …”
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