The reason for the hyped-up panic generally comes down to the overly simplistic ‘dependency ratio‘, which has several different forms but generally compares the number of people in the labour force against those who have retired from it. The idea here is that once the number of people no ...
Energy poverty (EPOV) is considered to have a significant impact on health and has become an essential issue on the policy agenda in most countries, especially those with rapid aging. Cognitive and mental health (CMH) for aging well is just as important a component as physical health, but ...
Most significant findings from the Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report 2023 indicate that India, Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) collectively contribute to approximately two-thi
For India we project a fairly rapid reduction of poverty in the baseline scenario, in accordance with projections by the World Bank38. Against this background also the effects of climate policy are less severe (+7 million people in SSP2 by 2030 without progressive redistribution). In addition,...
The video has a plethora of useful information, but the data on the poverty rate is particularly compelling. Prior to the War on Poverty, theUnited States was getting more prosperous with each passing year and there were dramatic reductions in the level of destitution. ...
They included items in their daily briefing stats that are not PPE e.g. cleaning equipment, paper towels, detergent, and bin bags. The second biggest item we had stockpiled were plastic aprons, the kind that dinner ladies wear. They offer almost zero protection against a virus. NO medical ...
Over the last two decades, global wealth has risen. Yet material affluence has not translated into time affluence. Most people report feeling persistently ‘time poor’—like they have too many things to do and not enough time to do them. Time poverty is
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Finally, data on GDP, grain area output, and agricultural product price came from the China Statistical Yearbook available on the website of the National Bureau of Statistics of the People’s Republic of China (http://www.stats.gov.cn/ accessed on 10 October 2024). Among them, the GDP ...