South Africa’s youthful population is gradually aging, as the country’s total fertility rate (TFR) has declined dramatically from about 6 children per woman in the 1960s to roughly 2.2 in 2014. This pattern is similar to fertility trends in South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa,...
particularlyinAsia.Asiaisseenasthemostvulnerableregionforhumantraffickingbecauseofitshugepopulationpyramid,growingurbanization,andever-presentpoverty.Estimatesofthenumberofpeopletraffickedeachyearvaryfromtensofthousandstomillions.Suchvariationsareduetotheclandestinenatureofhumantraffickingandthenumerousmethodo-logical...
Asia Area total:99,720 sq km land:96,920 sq km water:2,800 sq km country comparison to the world:110 Area - comparative slightly smaller than Pennsylvania; slightly larger than Indiana Land boundaries total:237 km border countries (1):North Korea 237 km ...
Iraq, Syria, Libya, Eritrea and now Palestine are mere symptoms of this inexorable movement towards economic centration. It has created an inverted social pyramid. If left uncorrected it will topple over and will end
Factfile Asia correspondent Don Silcock is based in Bali, Indonesia. For extensive location guides, articles and images on some of the best diving locations in the Indo-Pacific region, visit his website at: Indopacificimages.com.There is a reason for the abundant life in the region. Often...
At the centre of that common patrimony stand the figures of the great Sufi saints, who played so large a role in bringing Islam to South Asia and in crossing the fundamental religious divides of their day in such a way as to appeal also to the Hindu population, and who through the ...
(4) It aims to raise money to help poor people in Asia and Africa. (5) Yes, it is, participants have to walk 100 kilometers within 48 hours, without sleep. They’ll walk through eight country parks and over twenty mountains and hills. 8 (1)It can show all kinds of feelings, wishe...
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In this study, we use an empirical example to demonstrate how a multi-stage pattern matching process can inform and substantiate the construction of partia
There is increasing evidence of unequal access to resources within the household between children and adults. The literature suggests that patterns of intra-household inequality are context specific: while some find that households prioritise children (Main and Bradshaw2016), others find that children ar...