As many as 13,000 people were reported missing. There were a staggering 2.8 million homeless people in Nicaragua, the Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Of a total combined population of 11 million in Nicaragua and the Honduras, about 1 million were left shelterless....
Not only does SES have a differential impact across population groups within a country, but there is also evidence of cross-national variations in the shape of SES-health gradients. For example, low SES leads to higher degrees of disadvantage in the USA than in Canada, the United Kingdom, a...
One of the first big Planeterra projects for G Adventures, money to build the centre was raised by a huge five-year-long international fundraiser by G travellers. Children who live in extreme poverty in Cusco are usually forced to drop out of school and beg on the street to help their fa...
Energy povertyLevelized cost of electricityClimate change mitigationMany countries have taken on ambitious but potentially costly renewable energy development goals to combat climate change. The government of Guatemala has introduced a plan to increase renewable generation capacity, while an estimated 76% ...
Soon after taking office, President Biden suspended some Trump asylum restrictions, including the so-called "Remain in Mexico" program and deals that allowed the U.S. to reroute asylum-seekers to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador with instructions to seek protection there. ...
After walking for about three hours, Gloria’s group finally arrived in Guatemala, where they stayed in a hostel. There they found another group that had been there a week, longer than usual. The political atmosphere in the country was tense with anti-government protests and fighting on the ...
Or did people forget which country's intelligence agency helped overthrow the governments in Chile, Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama? Instead of conquering other nations through the barrel of the gun, or subverting regimes they don't like by force, or sometimes by del...
The couple wanted to travel the world and they wanted to have children, and decided to do it in that order. They quit their jobs, took a train up to Maine, cycled to Niagara Falls and down the Appalachians. They flew to Guatemala, cycled Central America, flew to Patagonia, cycled up ...
Penny Wars is a two-week event that I have helped organize over the past four years. It is a school-wide competition whose proceeds fund microloans for women-owned businesses in Guatemala. When I was a sophomore on the then-nascent Penny Wars Rally Committee, I performed discrete tasks, su...
The main implication of this effect is that wealth reduces growth and poverty increases it—the benefits of backwardness. The R2s of Table 3 was higher than that of Table 4. Psychometric IQ appears to be a better indi- cator of CA than student IQSA, but country samples also differed ...