However, when theAsian Financial Crisisrocked the financial foundations of Indonesia in 1997-1998 it had a devastating impact on poverty alleviation, causing the poverty rate to slip back from 11.3 percent to 19.9 percent in late-1998, meaning that much of the New Order's good work had been ...
while Thailand strives to promote its LGBT-friendly image, the LGBT community is still facing stigmatization and pressure to adhere to mainstream social norms (World Bank Group,2018). Moreover, LGBT people in the labor market are still being discriminated...
ANALYSIS OF POVERTY DETERMINATION METHODS IN MALAYSIA ZAKAT INSTITUTIONSBhari, AzriKhalidi, Mohammad MahyuddinZaki Yaakob, Mohd AshrofMohamed Yusof, Mohd Faizbinti Shaharin, Nurfitriyah Salihahbinti Mohd, Nurul 'AinMamat, Norazlina bintiSaidi, Nurulaina binti...
Our estimates of the annual PIKE of the first part of the time series are broadly consistent with estimates from earlier analyses7,12. In later parts, we found a peak in 2011 and slowly decreasing PIKE levels thereafter: the median annual poaching rate in MIKE sites in 2011 was 10.4% (90...
MANILA, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The poverty rate in the Philippines has declined by 5 percent but the World Bank (WB) stressed on Wednesday the need to provide more well-paying jobs especially to the 22 millions Filipinos who still live below the poverty line. ...
Mounting evidence is pointing to the world having entered a sixth mass extinction. If the current rate of extinction continues we could lose most species by 2200. The implication for human health and wellbeing is dire, but not inevitable. ...
Conversely, there are diverse long-term energy poverty alleviation policies implemented in Lithuania like financing measures under Modernization programme for promotion of RES in residential buildings; soft loans with fixed 3% interest rate for promotion of energy efficiency and use of RES in ...
Especially in 2020, the incidence and death rate in these three regions have all increased, which was associated with disrupted diagnosis and treatment services during the COVID-19 pandemic [3, 4]. WHO has indicated that endemic countries tend to hold weak health system. It’s difficult for ...
Two strains of TMUV and Chaoyang virus (CHAOV) and 47 strains of Quang Binh virus (QBV) were detected in 412 mosquito pools, with the infection rate of 0.16, 0.16, and 3.92 per 1000 Culex tritaeniorhynchus, respectively. Furthermore, TMUVs viral RNA was found in serum samples of domest...
With this in mind, this paper aims to further investigate differences between poverty measures for specific groups (i.e., children with disabilities and their families). In the UK in 2017/18, families with a disabled child had a poverty rate of 26% (JFR, 2020) compared to 19% of ...