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Reflections on student tourism research in South Africa. [PDF]

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2017
In South Africa, the tourism system has seen considerable policy attention over the past twenty years. As a consequence, there has been a large body of scholarship tracing its development.
Gustav Visser (Ph.D. London School of Economics)
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An economic perspective on the causal explanations for the socioeconomic inequalities in health

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2018
Socioeconomic inequality, or the socioeconomic status (SES) gradient, is arguably one of the most-studied phenomena in health. The gradient in health is apparent in objective and subjective measures, across virtually all countries, and is evident at ...
Lori J. Curtis
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Regionalization and Partitioning of Soil Health Indicators for Nigeria Using Spatially Contiguous Clustering for Economic and Social-Cultural Developments

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019
Understanding the spatial variability of soil health and identifying areas that share similar soil properties can help nations transition to sustainable agricultural practices.
Alaba Boluwade
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Promoting Energy Efficiency: Barriers, Societal Needs and Policies

Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022
The Climate Change urgency requires a swift reduction of energy consumption. One way to achieve this is through increased energy efficiency. Over the past decades, the debate on how to encourage energy efficiency has been guided by the physical–technical–
Nives Della Valle, Paolo Bertoldi
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Poverty: A Very Short Introduction [PDF]

, 2018
No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, we find ourselves in a situation where millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank in 2010, 1.2 billion people lived below the extreme poverty line
Jefferson, Philip N.
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Questioning relationships between socioeconomic and demographic factors in the light of characteristics of rural Wallonia during the 19th century

Espace populations sociétés, 2021
Although relationships between economic and demographic changes have often been debated, studies have long remained focused on urban and industrial areas. Converging evidence, however, suggests that early birth control emerged in rural Wallonia.
Mélanie Bourguignon
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A literature review of the economics of COVID‐19

Journal of economic surveys (Print), 2020
The goal of this piece is to survey the developing and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID‐19 and the governmental responses, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies.
A. Brodeur, David Gray, A. Islam, Suraiya Jabeen Bhuiyan   +3 more
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Economic Assessment of the Use Value of Geospatial Information

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015
Geospatial data inform decision makers. An economic model that involves application of spatial and temporal scientific, technical, and economic data in decision making is described.
Richard Bernknopf, Carl Shapiro
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Digital Economics

Journal of Economic Literature, 2017
Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data.
Avi Goldfarb, Catherine Tucker
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THE NECESSITY TO CHANGE THE APPROACH TO THE TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TAUGHT AS A SECOND FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN SLOVAK SCHOOLS

Linguarum Universe
Currently, most Slovak elementary and secondary schools teach English as the first foreign language and German, French, Spanish, Italian, or Russian as the second foreign language.
ŠUKOLOVÁ, Lucia, University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia, Magdaléna PATÉ   +2 more
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