Though it is expected that agricultural productivity improvement tends to reduce poverty, the extent to which it reduces inequality and benefits small-scale farmers is still open to question.
However, the results clearly indicate that household illness increases the risk for child abuse victimisation through poverty and extent of disability.
Poverty, the extent of relative deprivation and the processes of social exclusion in a society have a major impact on the health of populations [ 2, 3, 16], and this also applies to oral conditions [ 6, 20].
Using multiple mediation analyses, this study investigated direct and indirect effects of chronic household illness (AIDS or other illness) on frequent (monthly) physical and emotional abuse victimisation with poverty and extent of the ill person's disability as hypothesised mediators.
"Our results suggest that unemployment and, to a lesser extent, poverty, are strongly associated with more hate crime, particularly crimes that are sexually, racially and religiously motivated," they conclude.
Nicaise and Schockaert estimate, for Belgium, that the lack of representation of this group in the EU-SILC's data lowers the ratio of people at risk of poverty by an extent that lies somewhere between 0.6 and 1.7 % [34].
Six separate models tested the direct and indirect effects of household AIDS-illness and other chronic illness at baseline on child abuse at follow-up through poverty and the extent of the ill person's disability at baseline.
Van Doorslaer and colleagues have recently shown, for 11 Asian countries, that surveys on which the World Bank estimates are based understate the extent of poverty as measured by the $1/day poverty line because they are based on surveys of the value of household consumption that include out-of-pocket health care costs.
Vivekananda drew attention to the extent of poverty in the country, and maintained that addressing such poverty was a prerequisite for national awakening.
The CSJ's six-part two-year long diagnosis of the extent of poverty and social breakdown in Britain.
