Frequently the recipient diverts the funds to other personal uses. One frailty of the human condition is to confuse charitable largess with entitled, guaranteed income and consequently view the socially respected “rich” relative as a perpetual ATM. The subsequent family fallout is usually as spect...
Debt distress concerns have mounted in the recent past as countries such as Ghana, Zambia and Ethiopia have engaged their creditors for a restructuring in a bid to ease the burden on their economies. At its just-concluded 2023 Spring Meetings, the International Monetary Fund (I...
For production, we break down the device retail price into discrete categories in order to calculate production along the device value chain (for example, retail markup, licensing, components, and assembly). For each of these steps we conducted a detailed analysis of the manufacturing location in...
However, the detrimental effects of those events on energy poverty are unlikely to have been homogenous across different types of households, impacting some more than others. Due to the unequal distribution of income, reflected in different household consumption patterns, but also due to the different...
Ideally, each SOC would map to a unique ISCO, so that we could simply calculate the ISCO share as a weighted average of SOC shares, using the SOCs' US employment counts as the weights. However, given the many-to-many mapping, this approach would put disproportionate weight on those SOCs ...
Your transcript must also include or be accompanied by an explanation of the grading system so that the university in Japan can understand the relative quality of your grades andcalculate the conversion to MEXT’s 3.0 GPA system, which is a requirement for recommendation. ...
i’ve been designing for personal use for 5 years now and i love doing it. i was recently approached by a local car dealer to create a new logo and business card for his company. i design very creative business cards and i sell them to people very well, although i believe i underchar...
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To calculate the expenditure of forest certification, we used the annual rate of 27 USD/ha/yr,6 which is the highest cost for household group certification.7 This rate is three times higher than the rate of 8.5 USD/ha/yr, which was claimed by Maraseni et al. (2017) as the threshold ...
The nation is only second to Madagascar (24.9 Mbps) in terms of Internet speed at 10.1 Mbps, which is higher than Rwanda, Uganda, Ghana and Namibia combined. This has seen new job titles birthed. “We’ve witnessed so many changes in this decade. The cost of Internet has...