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  2. Socioeconomic status - Wikipedia

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    Socioeconomic status ( SES) is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family's access to economic resources and social position in relation to others. [1] [2] When analyzing a family's SES, the household income and the education and occupations of its members are examined ...

  3. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural ...

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    The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( ICESCR) is a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (GA) on 16 December 1966 through GA. Resolution 2200A (XXI), and came into force on 3 January 1976. [1] It commits its parties to work toward the granting of economic, social, and cultural rights ...

  4. United Nations Economic and Social Council - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization, specifically in regards to the fifteen specialized agencies, the eight functional commissions, and the five regional commissions under its jurisdiction.

  5. Socioeconomics - Wikipedia

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    Society portal. v. t. e. Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes. In general it analyzes how modern societies progress, stagnate, or regress because of their local or regional economy, or the global economy .

  6. Knowledge gap hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Knowledge gap hypothesis. The knowledge gap hypothesis is a mass communication theory based on how a member in society processes information from mass media differently based on education level and socioeconomic status (SES). The gap in knowledge exists because a member of society with higher socioeconomic status has access to higher education ...

  7. United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and ...

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    The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP) is one of the five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. [1] It was established in order to increase economic activity in Asia and the Far East, as well as to foster economic relations between the region ...

  8. Social contract (Malaysia) - Wikipedia

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    The social contract in Malaysia is a political construct first mooted in the 1980s, allegedly to justify the continuation of the discriminatory preferential policies for the majority Bumiputera [a] at the expense of the non-Bumiputeras, most particularly the Chinese and the Indian citizens of the country. Generally describing the envisaged 20 ...

  9. Wawasan Nusantara - Wikipedia

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    Wawasan Nusantara, or Indonesian Archipelagic Vision, is the national vision of Indonesia towards their people, nation, and territory of the unitary state of the Republic of Indonesia (including its land and sea as well as the air and space above it) as a unity of political, economic, social, cultural, defensive and security-driven entities.