In this context, the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR) has initiated a series of feature articles to highlight China's achievements in hydraulic engineering and its contribution to sustainable water management on a global scale. The theme "Water for Peace" aligns wi...
"I can think of at least three reasons to support that statement: first of all, (China) helped to dignify human life by satisfying the basic needs of millions of people on a scale that is unprecedented in the history of humanity," said the economist. Secondly, China has became an engine...
This result depends on assuming that all individuals in a household have the same resource needs and no economies of scale exist, as in the World Bank standard approach. Conversely, if conservative estimates of economies of scale and individual discount factors are adopted, global extreme poverty ...
Such forecasts have significant policy implications because they are used to inform debates on the scale and objectives of future aid. However, these papers have produced some very different projections for global poverty so that a complex and rather inconsistent picture has emerged. Estimating even ...
First, Lagoie makes a persuasive case that poverty is lower today that when Milei took office. That’s very impressive, but what really matters is that he has changed the direction. Poverty was on an upward trajectory when he took office and now it’s declining. ...
(Read Indira Gandhi’s 1975 Britannica essay on global underprivilege.) Cyclical poverty Cyclical poverty refers to poverty that may be widespread throughout a population, but the occurrence itself is of limited duration. In nonindustrial societies (present and past), this sort of inability to prov...
Some estimates suggest that 1/10 of the population of developing countries is handicapped or disabled in some way; on a global scale this amounts to about ... L Doyal 被引量: 36发表: 1983年 The ARV roll out and the disability grant: a South African dilemma? pResults/p pUnemployment ...
At old revolutionary bases, ethnic minority areas and border areas, the Chinese military has been carrying on the tradition of serving locals and helping them overcome poverty. At a border village named Shawa in southwest China's Yunnan Province, locals used to grow corns for a living. However...
Social vulnerability and the pandemic in Cuba: impacts on family food security from the sociology of risk The current health situation, generated by the COVID-19 outbreak, has led to substantial impacts on local food systems on a global scale. Its consequences ... YD Ruiz,OS Narino,JMJ Almon...
China's poverty alleviation serves as a textbook for the global fight against poverty. http://www.ceweekly.cn/2016/1017/167089. shtml 1 poverty on such a large scale is a first in history. This milestone calls for a new approach in understanding more precisely the country's methods in ...