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innovation to prevent injury has lagged behind that of many other LMIC public health priorities, there exist low-cost approaches to prevent injury in urbanized and urbanizing areas—especially for road crashes. There remains an urgent need to adapt models of prehospital and hospital-based trauma car...
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Most importantly, fiscal resources are always limited, even in the affluent industrialized world, where its effects have been proven insufficient to reverse or contain rising inequality1. It should be stressed that the distributional problem is more urgent and important in developing countries, ...
He claims that while poverty rates are falling, the sizeable growth in urban populations means that urban poverty is becom- ing an important issue in Asia. Riyana Miranti examines possible interdependencies between internal migra- tion, urbanization, urban poverty, and inequality in Indonesia in ...
Despite the considerable economic growth caused by globalization, developing countries face various problems like the erosion of sovereignty and income inequality, as they remain at the lower end of industrial and value chains (Gollin et al., 2016; Ma and Sun, 2020; Munck, 2021). Many ...
Our study suggests that these various drivers manifest disproportionately in larger cities. This compli- cates the role of urbanization in enhancing human well-being as it creates a trade-off between the opportunity for higher wages that come with larger cities and increasing inequality of those ...
In South Asia, too, India in 1991 forsook its erstwhile conservative import substitution policy and lowered tariff barriers which had hitherto kept multinationals at bay. This was followed by the globaliza- tion of consumption patterns and the explosion of South Asian economies, with a large range...
opportunities is very limited [73]. In relation to rural–urban migration, the relationship is usually found that when urban and rural inequality is sharpened, the attractiveness of the city will be stronger, which in turn will result in increased in-migration to the city [76]. The increase ...
Why, given the same rate of urbanization, does Asia contain a number of explosive economies while sub-Saharan Africa has seen very little growth? Moreover, in developed and advanced industrialized economies, is there appears to be a competitive advantage in continuing this urbanization process ...