The determinants of urban household poverty in Malaysia

MODSIM07 - Land, Water and Environmental Management: Integrated Systems for Sustainability, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1124-1130

  Mok, T Y ^a   Gan, C ^a   Sanyal, A ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Sensitivity analysis; Urban poverty

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED CONTROL; PERSONNEL; PUBLIC POLICY; SURVEYS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS; EFFECTS OF EDUCATION; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEYS; MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENTS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY ESTIMATE; RAPID URBANIZATIONS;

LOGISTIC REGRESSION;

EID: 80052926083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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