Therefore, we expect people in more individualist countries to be more resistant to social distancing measures because they underestimate the risk and place personal freedom over concerns about the dangers of COVID-19. Individualism is associated with a desire to maintain self-concept and with ...
Births were classified as South Asian if the mother and father were both born in Bangladesh, British India Ocean Territories, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, or Pakistan. These locations were chosen in consultation with immigrant and cultural support organisations in British Columbia. Immigrants from these...
According to NDTV India; 2013, poverty reduction in Nepal is significantly higher in Nepal than Bangladesh and India. This could partly explain the higher prevalence of hypertension in Nepal amongst its neighbors. In addition, per capita alcohol intake is relatively higher in Nepal than its counter...
Meanwhile, East and South Asian countries, such as Bangladesh, China, India, and the Persian Gulf experienced the highest level of PM2.5 concentration in 2015. Ambient PM2.5 is the leading environmental factor for death, accounting for about 4.2 million deaths in 2015, nearly 40 percent of ...
the child’s first birthday (Marston and Cleland2003; Singh et al.2015; Echaiz et al.2018), but no relationship was found in Bolivia and the Philippines (Marston and Cleland2003). Likewise, for nutritional status, children of unwanted pregnancies in Bangladesh were more likely to be stunted,...
Tiwari (1994) elucidated that opportunity costs may change because of changing economy, and using a single discount rate (estimated either by any of the measures of central tendency or by econometric methods) may not be appropriate as it can overestimate or underestimate the expected market value ...