According to a Nigeria Poverty statistics, the poverty rate in Nigeria south-west of the country is 19.3 percent. That of the south-south of Nigeria is 25.2 percent. The statistics also revealed that the poverty level in the south-east is about 27.4 percent. In the north-center, the level...
Guyana’s poor quality of life is causing skilled workers--teachers, doctors, nurses, managers--to flee. Despite an increase in the birth rate, the population has dropped in the last decade by about 100,000. U.S. officials estimate that 5% of the population awaits immigration visas. Lines ...
Hypothesis testing of the local Moran statistic Ii was performed to calculate the statistical significance based on a false discovery rate correction for a 95 percent confidence interval (95% CI). Four categories of clusters were mapped. Clusters with high values of new malaria cases in the focal...
We find, first, that the poorest country- quintile has an expected rate of consumption growth which is considerably greater than that of the top twenty per cent. However, while significant, these constant growth trends account for only a very small proportion of observed variation in growth 16 ...
21% of regular workers in Indonesia are paid below the minimum wage rate (=-=Bird and Manning, 2008-=-); 32.4% of workers in Honduras earn less than 90% of the minimum wage rate (Gindling and Terrell, 2009); and about 40% of the population in Paraguay, Ecuador, Guyana, Nicaragua,...
Note also the high crime rate in many poor countries. We have seen the failures of both centralized socialism and capitalism, the latter exemplified at its worst by the greed in Wall Street. Yes , there are many problems to tackle in what are seemingly apparent ( population explosion, the...
in the year 2016. However, by 2020 the rate of poverty reduction slows down to below 50 people per minute after most of the Asian continent has already achieved the poverty SDG target. This implies that the big bulk of the poverty reduction challenge is expected to be in Africa, which is...
South America now is one of the most urbanized regions in the world, following the industrially advanced areas. Although the rate of growth in larger cities has decreased since 1950, the urban population has continued to be concentrated in the larger districts: a large proportion of the urban,...
leading to more severe infections and deaths even in places with high vaccination coverage. This study aims to assess the spatiotemporal variability of the COVID-19 pandemic and estimate the infection fatality rate (IFR), infection attack rate (IAR) and reproduction number (R0) for twelve most ...
Annual rate of poverty reduction in developing countries; Impact of the process of globalization on the poor; Theory and practice of food security.doi:10.1111/0002-9092.00196Carlton G. DavisFood and Resource Economics DepartmentUniversity of FloridaClive Y. Thomas...