Given current trends, 574 million people—nearly 7% of the world’s population—will still be living on less than $2.15 a day in 2030. The challenge is made harder by the fact that extreme poverty is concentrated in parts of the world where it will be hardest to eradicate: in Sub-...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The global economy is "dangerously close" to a recession, as inflation remains elevated, interest rates rise, and growing debt burden hits the developing world, World Bank President David Malpass said Thursday. "We've lowered our 2023 growth forecast from 3 p...
Fig. 1: ERA5 climatology and trends for CAPE, convective precipitation and vertical wind shear. A 41-year (1979–2019) climatology and trends for the (a) 95th percentile of convective available potential energy (CAPE), (b) accumulated convective precipitation, and (c) 50th percentile of 0–...
Reflecting 2018 and 2020 conditions, we use global high-resolution data on ambient air pollution (outdoor PM2.5 concentrations), population distribution, and poverty to provide aggregate exposure estimates (see Methods). We show that pollution levels are most hazardous in middle-income countries, ...
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of poverty in the world today – covering both recent trends and the current situation – taking into consideration income-based poverty as well as non-income dimensions, such as access to basic services. It also examines the incidence of poverty ...
We first summarise the trends across all modelled pathways under three different temperature outcomes, and perform a classification and regression tree analysis to identify the most important factors influencing the levels of cumulative supply for a given fossil fuel. We then perform additional ...
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Informality underpins the sector's poor performance and traps the majority of miners and communities in cycles of poverty and exclusion from legal protection and support. "Formalisation has to include miners' views and it needs to include measures to effectively monitor and enforce regulation," said...
those living in poverty, exposed to physical climate risks, with already limited access to quality health systems, and the elderly. There are also direct economic impacts, such asfiscal and financial strainson health systems,productivity lossfrom working in hotter environments, and the dis...
Understanding the temporal trends in the burden of overall and type-specific cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in youths and young adults and its attributable risk factors is important for effective and targeted prevention strategies and measures. We aimed