Development of an intergenerational wealth mobility framework for Pakistan by Areeba Khan, Sohail Saeed, Muhammad Fahad Khan, Quratul Ain

“…The 21th century goals are to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, insure environmental sustainability, reduce corruption rate, inclusive economy, concentration of wealth, equal distribution of wealth.  …”
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Environmental risk factors for Cryptosporidium infection in an island from Western Venezuela by Leonor Chacín-Bonilla, Fernando Barrios, Yulaicy Sanchez

“…Prevalence of the parasite varied among sectors of the community; 34 of 67(50.7%) cases of cryptosporidiosis clustered in two sectors with extreme poverty. Variables strongly associated with a higher risk for the infection (p < 0.01) were residing in these sectors versus the remainder, living in a hut or small residence versus a brick or larger house, using an area of backyard rather than a toilet or latrine for defecation, and having contact with soil contaminated with human feces. …”
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Teachers' Beliefs on Factors Affecting the Failure of Roma Childrev by Dragana Pavlovic, Marija Markovic, Tijana Krstic

“…The Roma constitute numerous national minority in Serbia which faces various problems reflected in extreme poverty, poor living conditions and low social, economic and educational status. …”
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A Cybercartographic Atlas of the Sky: Cybercartography, Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Work among the Pa Ipai Indigenous Families from Baja California, Mexico by Martín Cuitzeo Domínguez Núñez

“…Some of these problems are extreme poverty, violence, and conflicts with the Mexican state and the academic world. …”
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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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Liquidity And Deposit Insurance: The Case Of Deposit-Taking Microfinance Institutions In Low-Income Sub-Saharan Africa by Zibusiso Moyo, Sophia Mukorera

“…The failure of DTMFIs to be liquid has dire consequences such as contagion risk due to the sudden and unexpected deposit runs and oblivion of depositors’ funds, which further condemn the small savers into extreme poverty levels. Panel data from the Microfinance Information Exchange for the years 2006 to 2017 of 64 DTMFIs sampled across 18 LISSA countries was utilised. …”
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<i>They Are the Treasure of the Commonwealth</i>: Franciscan Charisma and Merchant Culture in Medieval Barcelona by Jaume Aurell

“…I intend to use the concept of charisma to better understand the great paradox of how those who aspired to a life of extreme poverty—the Franciscans—succeeded in legitimizing the work of those who aspired to a comfortable life, namely, the emerging merchant group. …”
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Fish and Food-Fatale: Food-borne Trematode Opisthorchis viverrini and Cholangiocarcinoma by Tan S., Machrumnizar M.

“…NTDs are the proxy of poverty since they affect those in low-income and extreme-poverty populations, as those populations lack access to proper health care, clean water, sanitary conditions, and hygiene. …”
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The Chinese Economic System – Reforms and economic growth by Славиша Ковачевић, Дијана Бојић

“…Although rapid economic growth has improved the living standard of Chinese people, a large part of the population is still struggling with extreme poverty. Social and economic inequalities in this country are becoming more emphasized, and the one-party system led to the problems of corruption, lack of protection of workers, lack of social and health care, and insufficient protection of the environment. …”
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The nexus between education and poverty reduction in Ghana from 2013 to 2017 by Anthony Abaidoo

“…Generally, poverty levels in Ghana have reduced over the past decade. Still, extreme poverty increased from 2.2 million in 2013 to 2.4 million in 2017. …”
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Tempos modernos? by Rita Brandão, Mário José Filho

“…Instead of guaranteeing mechanisms to implement policies of full employment and universal social policies, there has been a predominance of residual policies, which are either selective or focused on extreme poverty, as a mechanism to minimize the impact resulting from neoliberal policies. …”
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The polar bear in the room: diseases of poverty in the Arctic by Chris Nelson

“…This paper discusses the problems of caring for the health and well-being of indigenous populations suffering from extreme poverty, isolation and discrimination in the circumpolar region. …”
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Minimum welfare levels of farm workers in the San Quintín and Mexicali valleys, Baja California by JA Moreno-Mena, LM Niño-Contreras

“…Both groups of families were found to live in poverty, and approximately one in four in extreme poverty. Nutrition proved to be the most unsatisfied need for both groups, followed by education. …”
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Soya export tax, a mechanism to reduce poverty? by Lorenzo Octavio Vera Bower, Vidal Reneé Jara López

“…Results suggest that in the long run, extreme poverty decrease significantly; nevertheless, the reduction of total poverty is not as significant to 2030. …”
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Power, rights, freedom, technocracy and postcolonialism in sub-Saharan Africa by Monika dos Santos

“… Economic ‘unfreedom’, in the form of extreme poverty, renders individuals prey to the violation of other kinds of freedoms. …”
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Die missionale kerk in informele behuisingsgemeenskappe by Pieter Verster

“…Mission in informal settlements faces huge challenges, which include poor living conditions and structures, lack of infrastructure and medical facilities, extreme poverty, illnesses, criminality, youth subcultures, et cetera. …”
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Asistir y castigar: nuevos usos de viejos dispositivos de gobierno = Attending and punish: new uses of old devices government by Pérez de Sierra, Leticia

“…This paper aims to discuss the guidance of some of the policies targeted to extreme poverty in the Uruguayan progressive government framework. …”
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L’accès à l’eau potable et à l’assainissement dans les villes des pays en développement : cas de Basoussam (Cameroun) by Mpakam Hernanie Grelle, Kamgang Kabeyne, B.V., Kouam Kenmogne, G.-R., Tamo Tatietse, Georges E. Ekodeck

“…The state’s passivity and extreme poverty have led to the implementation of decentralised units such as wells, rivers, streams for basic needs. …”
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Factors predicting unfavorable results in tuberculosis treatment: an integrative literature review ( 2001-2005) by Tereza CS Villa, Maria EF Brunello, Ricardo A Arcêncio, Cinthia M Sassaki, Elisângela G Assis, Roxana I Cardozo-Gonzales

“…The predictive factors were: extreme poverty, non adherence and male gender. In MEDLINE, 14 articles were surveyed, 04 of which mentioned only multidrug resistance. …”
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Formation of Social Entrepreneurial Intention: A Qualitative Grounded Approach at the Base of the Pyramid by Frederik Claeyé, Yosra Boughattas, Erno T. Tornikoski

“…While there have been some attempts at investigating and theorizing social entrepreneurial action at the base of the economic pyramid, our understanding of the processes contributing to the formation of social entrepreneurial intention in contexts of extreme poverty remain limited. In this study, we aim to address this gap by providing a better understanding of the formation of social entrepreneurial intentions of youths at the base of the economic pyramid. …”
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