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This book proposes new solutions to the problem of poverty, and begins with providing analyses. It bases most of the analyses and solutions in the context of the digital era. The book also follows, in addition to a scientific distribution, a spatial-geographical one: analyses of countries of the  European Union as well as South Africa, while it referring to two main variables, television and art, as agents of poverty alleviation. The book places particular focus on how poverty is understood in the framework of Industry 4.0. It introduces a new expanded Multidimensional Poverty Index with more than 20 dimensions; moreover, it provides a mathematically based solution for the disposal of perishable food. Finally, it does not disregard the crucial aspect of the issue of poverty: that of education planning. This book is of interest to specialists in poverty research, from students to professionals and from professors to activists, without excluding engineers. 

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N.E. Myridis is Assistant Professor of Informatics in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has authored more than 115 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, edited books, and at international conferences, most of them as the sole author. He is also the sole author of eight (8) scientific books and the editor of three (3) scientific books and is the chief-editor of the Computer & Information Science journal, board member of scientific conferences and reviewer for 10 international scientific journals. He has been a lecturer and supervisor for UNESCO Chair's European Master thesis. He received or was offered many stipends from international societies as well as invitations (e.g., from the European Satellite Agency (ESA)). Dr Myridis is a reviewer for pioneering books of many esteemed publishers and universities for the journal Contemporary Physics, for instance, of books by the Nobel Laureates A. Zewail, 4-d Visualization of Matter and P. Peebles, The Large-scale Structure of the Universe.

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