This iswhereI live. 这是我住的地方。 牛津词典 SitwhereI can see you. 坐在我能看到你的地方。 牛津词典 Wherepeople were concerned, his threshold of boredom was low. 涉及人的事情,他便极易感到厌烦。 牛津词典 That'swhere(= the point in the argument at which) you're wrong. ...
Nigeria spent the most time connected to social networks, devoting more than four hours a day to the digital social sphere. Filipinos typically spent almost as much time per day on social media sites, while Indians and Chinese clocked in around 2.5 hours and 2 hours, respectively, per day. ...
To identify areas at highest risk of infectious disease transmission in Africa, we develop a physical distancing index (PDI) based on the share of households without access to private toilets, water, space, transportation, and communication technology an
To estimate within country wealth inequality, we used the Slope Index of Inequality (SII). Using logistic regression, the SII represents the absolute difference in the fitted value of birth certificate coverage between the highest and the lowest extremes of the wealth distribution [16, 19]. The ...
There is also a growing literature studying the role of language skills in explaining immigrant social outcomes, such as education (e.g., Aoki and Santiago, 2018). However, there is still limited knowledge on the causal impact of language skills on one of the key aspects of integration; ...
For its part, Nigeria, whose mineral sector now constitutes only 0.3 percent of the country's GDP, is consulting with industry stakeholders in an effort to enhance the sector's operating capacity, reduce mining site waste and boost productivity and output.22 This is a trend that may resonate ...
Consistent with the literature on conflict traps, 13 countries experienced a steady increase in attacks on civilians, such as Algeria, Cameroon, Morocco, and Nigeria. For example, Nigeria has been increasingly plagued by political violence driven by, among others, Boko Haram since the 2000s (Oba...
For small countries, such as Guinea-Bissau, this translates to esti- mates changing by only a few thousand people, whereas for more populous countries, such as Nigeria, this results in many millions of children changing classes (Figure 2c). Such trends are also seen when quantifying travel ...
and Tanzania in 2008. Between 1990 and 2008 there was an upward movement in the distribution of global poor in some Sub-Saharan Africa countries such as Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ranking of countries with the highest numbers of people living in poverty also changed; in...