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Household consumption is emerging as a significant source of carbon emissions growth; however, embedded equity concerns, particularly the mechanisms underlying urban–rural carbon inequality, remain inadequately explore...

Recent research indicates that people’s assessment of inequality is influenced by everyday contact with manifestations of disparity, with greater cognitive involvement among lower social strata. Information about inequ...

Abstract Background Breast cancer is the most common malignant disease in women and is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Mammography is the best and the most available diagnostic method for breast cancer ea...

Subjects / keywords: BLAU, PETER; THE FREE PRESS; 305 B645i

Economic inequality is a social phenomenon with several facets, all of which are signifificant when it comes to multidimensional measurement. When income is used as the fundamental variable of analysis to measure economi...

ABSTRACT On Inequality is a short book that skillfully handles a challenging topic. As its title suggests, its focus is a major theme in contemporary theories of justice: equality. Contrary to what one might expect, howe...

In this study, an Entropy Transformed Pareto Distribution (EnTrPD) was proposed to provide improved flexibility in modelling heavy-tailed behavior observed in data, and was subsequently applied to assess wealth inequalit...

This article reconceptualizes dehumanization as an ideological epistemology of inequality, a modular grammar through which social hierarchies appear moral, natural, and inevitable. It argues that structural inequality pr...

Background: Low birth weight (LBW) is a major public health concern in Lesotho, linked to higher infant mortality, long-term morbidity and intergenerational poverty. Despite expanded maternal and child health services, ...

This paper studies recent inequality patterns and the distributional effects of schooling and job informality on wage inequality in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico during the 2002?2014 period. By means of a quanti...

Embora a incorporação das questões da diferença nas pesquisas e práticas educacionais tenha visivelmente se acentuado nos últimos anos, sua abordagem ainda traz mais inquietações do que respostas. Neste texto, pr...

Among the necessities of identifying its underlying causes of environmental degradation, critical socioeconomic factors have often been overlooked in empirical studies. This study investigates the impact of income inequa...

Defining wealth broadly to include wealth in people, relational connections, and material possessions, we examine the prehistory of wealth inequality at the level of the residential units using the consistent proxy of Gi...

Contemporary researches on economic inequality and poverty are pointing out that their key causes appear in the field of tax policy, workforce policy, policy of employment and more recently in education and educational q...

The theory of redistribution, which argues that individuals from higher-income groups are the primary holders of public debt, serves as the theoretical foundation for our research. The impact of redistribution based on t...

The development of gender equality is studied through the prism of feminist institutionalism, which combines institutional analysis with feminist criticism. The main attention is paid to the mechanisms of formation of ge...

PurposeThis study is underpinned by the conviction that the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)'s transformative potential will only be fully realised when its benefits are extended universally across all regions. This pa...

We shall prove pointwise estimates for the decreasing rearrangement of Tf, where T covers a wide range of interesting operators in Harmonic Analysis such as operators satisfying a Fefferman-Stein inequality, the Bochner-...

In this paper, we establish some new generalizations of dynamic inequalities similar to Hardy's inequality on a time scale $\mathbb{T}$, by applying Jensen's inequality, integration by parts and chain rule on time scales...

This paper discusses the data limitations associated with the measurement of top incomes and inequality in the Middle East, with special emphasis to the case of Egypt. It has been noted that high inequality might have co...

Abstract This study investigates the nexus between income inequality and health outcomes in Ethiopia over the period 1970–2024 using a Co-Integrated Vector Autoregressive (CVAR) approach. Employing time series data fro...

This article examines the social, economic, and ecological conflicts stemming from the development of Rempang Eco City, a National Strategic Project (PSN) in the Riau Islands. The research utilizes a descriptive qualitat...

This article documents the level and trends of monetary inequality indeveloping countries based on PovcalNet data, up to the year 2015. Onaverage, during the first half of the 2010s inequality declined in developingecono...

The persistence of socioeconomic challenges related to inequality and unequal access to education highlights the need for a deeper theoretical understanding of how households make educational investment decisions under u...