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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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The inequality in the implementation of menstrual leave rights for women in the workplace in Indonesia remains a significant issue, despite being regulated under Law Number 13 of 2003 concerning Manpower. This study aims...

Artificial intelligence (AI), and generative AI in particular, is accelerating innovation in education by expanding access to tutoring, content creation, learning analytics, and teacher support. At the same time, policy ...

In the face of socioeconomic challenges, this paper develops and empirically demonstrates the Gondauri Index (GI) as a reproducible, diagnostics-first composite framework for benchmarking macro-financial resilience acros...

Abstract Purpose This study examines the demographic, spatial, and economic determinants of household access to electricity in Nigeria, a country characterized by persistent energy poverty and pronounced infrastructure i...

O artigo propõe um modelo para explicar o processo mediante o qual os jovens se tornam cidadãos participativos. Veremos que este ocorre de duas formas complementares. A primeira é a transmissão imediata, embora, em g...

Abstract Background Contraceptive use is integral to improving reproductive health outcomes, but disparities in access and use persist across Africa, influenced by socio-economic, educational, and age-related factors. Th...

In this article, we study an infinite horizon optimal control problem with monotone controls. We analyze the associated Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) variational inequality which characterizes the value function and ...

BackgroundHormone-sensitive cancers (HSCs) pose a significant threat to women’s health, with global rising incidence rates. This study provides the most up-to-date assessment of the global burden of HSCs.MethodsWe retr...

Abstract What is the status of women in the discipline of International Relations (IR) in Brazil? This study provides a pioneering map of gender issues in Brazilian IR, focusing on inequality, discrimination and harassme...