companies entering these markets are driven by conspicuous initial financial aid that lowers costs and increases profits. For example, the World Bank and other organizations, including private ones, are expandin
the Southern Ocean gives Africa is “V” shape. To the North, the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea define its boundaries. Africa is one of the few continents that is mostly defined simply by the bodies of water which surround
To gain a deeper insight into the mechanisms that may be associated with change, we exploit the heterogeneity across countries in their exposure to COVID-19 and we collected data on three pathways through which we conjecture that COVID-19 pandemics may shape norms. Two of these are the respon...
our error-adjusted survey estimates suggest that this milestone was reached at least five months earlier in Burkina Faso, the Gambia, and Kenya; over four months earlier in Nigeria, and at least three months earlier in Malawi; and that Uganda crossed the 40%-mark at least four months prior ...
Respondents in other studies involving FSWs in Nigeria and others in public Universities in Ghana, provided a list of reasons for entering into the sex work industry that extended beyond money or material benefits. A subset of participants in the study provided the following explanations:“I’m fr...
In an analysis relating regional boundaries to patterns of international interac- tions, the DHL Global Connectedness Index regions outperformed five other region classification schemes. See Pankaj Ghemawat and Steven A. Altman, "Geographic Distance and Regionalization," Chapter 10 in Pankaj Ghemawat, ...
Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards, with particularly disastrous impacts in low-income countries. This study presents global estimates of the number of people exposed to high flood risks in interaction with poverty. It finds that 1.81 billion people (23% of world population) are...
There are also two sites, Ekiti and Kwara in Nigeria, where one village still had a prevalence of about 10 % after 10 years treatment. In addition to the evaluation areas for which the results are shown in Fig. 3, there were six evaluation areas for which there was evidence that ...
World maps showing the bathymetry, major physical features, and boundaries of Earth's oceans.Types of Maps Did you know that there are thousands of types of maps? Learn about the maps shown here and more.Countries of the World We have maps and information for almost every country in the wo...
Childhood malnutrition is associated with high morbidity and mortality globally1. Undernourished children are more likely to experience cognitive, physical, and metabolic developmental impairments that can lead to later cardiovascular disease, reduced intellectual ability and school attainment, and reduced econo...