Air quality indexEnvironmental Kuznets curveSeveral concepts and indicators exist to measure and rank urban areas in terms of their socio-economic, infrastructural, and environment-related parameters. The World Bank regularly publishes the World Development Indicators (WDI), and the United Nations reports...
Lack of regulation and frequent dumping has led to a rapidly worsening situation. The World Bank estimated that air pollution related deaths in Thailand have risen nearly 20,000 in the past 20 years. It is evident that higher populated areas of Thailand are more prone to high levels of air ...
Figure 1. Evolution of Air Quality Index (AQI) in Dakar. Source: 2018 Annual Report, Dakar Air Quality Management Center. Notes: “Très Mauvais” translates to “Very Bad” level of pollution; “Mauvais” to “Bad”; “Moyen” to “Average”; and “Bon” to “Good” air quality. Gl...
Tools for Improving Air Quality Management. A Review of Top-Down Source Apportiontment Techniques and Their Application in Developing Countries ESMAP Publication Series, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA (2011) Google Scholar Kalnay et al., 1996 E. Kalnay, M. Kanamitsu, R. Kistler, W. Coll...
Against this context, this study explores the global prevalence of unsafe outdoor air pollution and the way it interacts with poverty (defined as daily expenditure below $1.90, $3.20, and $5.50, respectively, as defined by the World Bank; see Methods). Reflecting 2018 and 2020 conditions, we...
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World Bank. The Global Health Cost of PM2.5 Air Pollution: A Case for Action Beyond 2021. 2021. Available online: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/36501 (accessed on 2 March 2023). Gobierno de México. Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales. NORMA Oficial Mexicana...
AQI-CN data.current.pollution.aqicn integer Air Quality Index (CN) Main Pollutant - CN data.current.pollution.maincn string Main pollutant (CN), for example PM10 Timestamp data.current.weather.ts string Timestamp of the results. Temperature data.current.weather.tp integer Temperature, ...
This study aims to examine the impact of financial inclusion and digital financial inclusion on air quality in thirteen selected Asian countries. The dependent variables used in this study was the Air Quality Index (AQI). The independent variables were financial inclusion, digital financial inclusion,...
Once the air pollutant values are forecasted in Objective 1, the AQI is calculated using the procedures and index table provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)1. The US EPA has provided a technical assistance document for the reporting of Daily Air Quality, which includes all ...