Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards, with particularly disastrous impacts in low-income countries. This study presents global estimates of the number of people exposed to high flood risks in interaction with poverty. It finds that 1.81 billion people (23% of world population) are...
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...
The former British colony of Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America. This creates a trade barrier of language in the region, which is predominately Spanish-speaking. This impacts the economy as Guyana cannot trade as easily with its neighbours, limiting the trading partners...
Moreover, significant declines in the age-standardized prevalence rate and DALYs rate have been observed in association with an increase in the SDI . Globally, 0.14% of DALYs related to malaria are attributed to child underweight, and 0.08% of DALYs related to malaria are attributed to child ...
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 ...
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. ...
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...
In fact, it is noted that the Asian countries have the highest level (less household consumption with the rate of 66.22), followed by Eastern European Countries (66.38), Latin American Countries (69.07) and sub-Saharan African (73.59). This unexpected result can be explained by the fact that...
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,...
Treating each country-quintile-year as an observation, we first account for variation in consumption expenditures, finding that global shocks are of less importance than country-level shocks in explaining variation in country-quintile consumption growth. While poorer households experience more rapid ...