Introduction
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are the guiding principles agreed upon and signed by majority nations across the world aimed to reduce poverty and improve human development index. With the SDG’s in the background, the current study on how disadvantaged neighborhoods across the world may cause poverty and other social issues are discussed from few case studies in this paper.
Definition
Disadvantaged neighborhood consists of a locality where residents are deprived of a decent standard of living. They are denied some of the basic necessities of life such as adequate housing, health care, public sanitation support, educational facilities, access roads, and water supply.
However, sociologists believe a disadvantaged neighborhood also emanates from poverty, a social problem that leads to multiplicity of disadvantages as listed above and many more. “Poverty has many dimensions, each of which must be studied separately, but which in reality constitute an inter-related network...
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Mitra, S., Mitra, G.N. (2020). Disadvantaged Neighborhood and Poverty. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) No Poverty. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69625-6_14-1
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