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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
, 2014 Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries—in education, personal autonomy, and more—explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality?
S. Jayachandran
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Bayesian local clustering of age-period mortality surfaces across multiple countries [PDF]
arXivAlthough traditional literature on mortality modeling has focused on single countries in isolation, recent contributions have progressively moved toward joint models for multiple countries. Besides favoring borrowing of information to improve age-period forecasts, this perspective has also potentials to infer local similarities among countries ...
arxiv
Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsCropland expansion, driven by increasing population pressure and economic demands, is a major contributor to accelerating deforestation. While most studies have focused on the spatial and temporal analysis of landscape changes using Geographic ...
Hamza Moluh Njoya +10 more
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Dynamics and Spatial Distribution of Global Nighttime Lights [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 Using open source data, we observe the fascinating dynamics of nighttime light. Following a global economic regime shift, the planetary center of light can be seen moving eastwards at a pace of about 60 km per year. Introducing spatial light Gini coefficients, we find a universal pattern of human settlements across different countries and see a global ...
arxiv
Mitochondrial DNA disorders in neuromuscular diseases in diverse populations
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.Abstract Neuromuscular features are common in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) disorders. The genetic architecture of mtDNA disorders in diverse populations is poorly understood. We analysed mtDNA variants from whole‐exome sequencing data in neuromuscular patients from South Africa, Brazil, India, Turkey and Zambia. In 998 individuals, there were two definite
Fei Gao +34 more
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Summary of developed and potential waterpower of the United States and other countries of the world, 1955-62 [PDF]
, 1964 Loyd L. Young
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Deposit insurance in developing countries [PDF]
About a dozen developing countries have deposit insurance systems and several others are considering establishing them. These systems are typically created to prevent contagious bank runs, to provide a formal national mechanism for handling failing banks,
Mas, Ignacio, Talley, Samuel H.
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Pedagogy, curriculum, teaching practices and teacher education in developing countries [PDF]
, 2013 This rigorous literature review focused on pedagogy, curriculum, teaching practices and teacher education in developing countries. It aimed to: 1. review existing evidence on the review topic to inform programme design and policy making undertaken by ...
Boddy, Janet +6 more
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