To minimize potential measurement errors, instrumental variables using data on robots from multiple countries (i.e., Germany, South Korea, the United States, Japan, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) were also employed and the results of the regression analyses are presented in Column (1) of Pane...
cattle on other people's land. Security measures of even the simplest kind (e.g., lock, guard dog, lighting with simple lightbulbs) were taken by less than half of the respondents. This might be because such investments might not be affordable (for example due to lack of electricity) ...
2005. Renewable energy technologies for decentralised rural electricity services: Report from an international workshop held in Studsvik Sweden 10-12 June 2004... A Arvidson - Società Italiana di Fisica 被引量: 4发表: 2005年 Renewable Energy Technologies for Decentralised Rural Electricity Services. ...
We used factors like electricity and piped water as a proxy for socio-economic status, and these findings may suggest that being of higher socio-economic status, better enabled men to test, whereas most women might have had to test at some point in their lifetimes during pregnancy regardless ...
Researchers found that people using solid fuel for cooking, including wood, coal, crop and animal waste, had greater risks of cardiovascular mortality, increasing by 20 percent, with all-cause mortality increasing by 11 percent, compared to those using clean fuels, such as gas and electricity. ...
Sixty eight percent of women reported prior testing compared to 29% of men. In this study, men and women who had heard about ARV therapy were more likely to report HIV testing, and repeated testing. Men who had more than 12 years of education and who were of high economic status, and ...
Wang & Sun (2016) report a positive correlation between the length of rail infrastructure and crop yield in rural areas in China. A study in Sweden echoed the finding that rural areas connected to rail had around a hundred to three hundred percent increase in economic productivity and ...
In 2004, the number of personal computers per 1,000 persons in Tanzania was 7,4 compared to 763 in Sweden[10]. However, mobile phone penetration passed 40% in SSA already in 2010 and continues to increase rapidly[11], offering other possibilities for introduction of ICT tools in both ...
Since then, rural entrepreneurship has contributed to China’s 10 percent annual economic growth and is transforming the rural countryside. The creation of non-farm employment in rural areas has resulted in return migration of tens of millions of migrant workers from urban areas to their home ...
In comparison, the countries with the lowest proportion of people without a financial surplus are Sweden at 14%, Portugal at 19%, Ireland at 23% and Belgium at 23%. Inability to afford emergency expenses correlates with the risk of poverty and social exclusion. In the event of a job loss...