This is consistent with our findings that associations between ACEs and adiposity exist across both levels of socioeconomic disadvantage. Moreover, we find that poverty solely was associated with greater slope in BMI/ FMI trajectories among individual ACE models but not in ACE score models, ...
< 0.001) was lower than expected levels, while it was higher than expected levels in Northeastern China (IRR = 1.484, 95% CI: 1.266–1.740; P < 0.001). The results were similar across route of transmission groups, and in a sensitivity analysis considering seasonality (Table ...
Despite the fact that the region is endowed with unprecedented amounts and varieties of natural resources (mineral, flora, and fauna), poverty levels has continued to threaten the livelihoods of most of the region's citizens as well as its sovereignty. The appalling phenomena in Angola, Botswana...
In the other papers, household survey datasets are used to evaluate implications of specific ecosystem services interventions, including conservation agriculture and wildlife management areas, and are structured accordingly. In their study of subsidy payments in Malawi, Bell et al.6 apply a classic ...
The executive director of the Water Witness International group came forward to suggest that the UK should be held responsible for the cholera outbreak in Malawi which has killed 1210 people after the UK cut the WASH aid budget of the country by GBP 90 million [30]. The UK has since ...
productivity and output levels in some parts of the economy, but these have been accompanied by increasing severity of poverty. The absolute number of the poor is roughly the same as 15 years ago and a significant proportion of the population hovers just above the poverty line and is ...
1In many parts of the world, women tend to be the poorest of the poor in a very literal sense. In addition to being the majority among the poor, they are often denied the most basic rights and access to critical resources such as land, inheritance or credit. Their labor and knowledge ...
I. Introduction Fuelwood is the forest commodity produced in large quantities and is the principal component of rural domestic energy in India and in many other developing countries. It is an alarming fact that today in the 21st century there are still billions of people who totally rely on ...
Responses on the adoption of these technologies are collected in binary response (0=No, 1=Yes). Three levels of adoption are identified: non-adopters or insignificant adopters (CSAT ≤ 2), moderate adopters (2 > CSAT < 5), and intensive adopters (CSAT ≥ 5). For ...
It is striking that poverty and corruption-related covariates correlate with local and country-wide levels of poaching more strongly than estimates of law enforcement adequacy (cf. Fig.3a–f). This is possibly due to difficulty in estimating law enforcement adequacy; however, all assessors were tr...