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The 'Diverse, Dynamic New World of Global Tobacco Control'?:An Analysis of Participation in the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control [PDF]

, 2012
INTRODUCTION: The increasingly inequitable impacts of tobacco use highlight the importance of ensuring developing countries’ ongoing participation in global tobacco control.
Buse, Buse, Collin, David, de Beyer, Evgeniya Plotnikova, Fisher, Glenn, Hammond, Jeff Collin, Liberman, Malone, Mathers, McGregor, Ross, Sarah E Hill, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, Wilkenfeld, Yach   +29 more
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Monitoring breastfeeding indicators in high‐income countries: Levels, trends and challenges

Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2021
Monitoring indicators of breastfeeding practices is important to protect and evaluate the progress of breastfeeding promotion efforts. However, high‐income countries lack standardized methodology to monitor their indicators.
J. Vaz, M. F. S. Maia, P. A. Neves, T. Santos, L. Vidaletti, C. Victora   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A scoping review of media campaign strategies used to reach populations living with or at high risk for Hepatitis C in high income countries to inform future national campaigns in the United Kingdom

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background With the advent of direct acting antivirals, the World Health Organisation proposed eliminating Hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030. To achieve this, countries need to diagnose, engage in care and treat their undiagnosed populations.
David Etoori, Monica Desai, Sema Mandal, William Rosenberg, Caroline A Sabin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding why children die in high-income countries [PDF]

The Lancet, 2014
Many factors affect child and adolescent mortality in high-income countries. These factors can be conceptualised within four domains-intrinsic (biological and psychological) factors, the physical environment, the social environment, and service delivery.
Sidebotham, Peter, Fraser, James, Covington, Teresa, Freemantle, Jane, Petrou, Stavros, Pulikottil-Jacob, Ruth, Cutler, Tess, Ellis, C.   +7 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Corruption’s Crossroads: Exploring Firm Performance and Auditors’ Role in Emerging Markets

Economies
This study examines the relationship between country-level corruption (proxied by the Corruption Perception Index, CPI) and firm performance (measured by Return on Assets, ROA) across 18,286 firms in the East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia regions.
Sheela Sundarasen, Izani Ibrahim, Ahnaf Ali Alsmady, Tanaraj Krishna   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The economic impact of weather and climate [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I test it on a sample of 160 countries over the period 1950-2014.
arxiv  

Trade and income inequality in developing countries [PDF]

, 2009
We use a dynamic specification to estimate the impact of trade on within-country income inequality in a sample of 65 developing countries (DCs) over the 1980-1999 period.
Abramovitz, Acemoglu, Aghion, Alarcón, Alvarez, Arbache, Arellano, Atkinson, Attanasio, Autor, Barro, Barro, Barro, Berman, Berman, Berman, Blalock, Blundell, Bourguignon, Bruno, Bun, Calderón, Chamarbagwala, Cline, Coe, Coe, Cornia, Cornia, Cragg, Deininger, Dollar, Easterly, Edwards, Elena Meschi, Feenstra, Feenstra, Feliciano, Galbraith, Galbraith, Gourdon, Grossman, Hanson, Hanushek, Judson, Kiviet, Krugman, Kuznets, Lall, Leamer, Leamer, Lee, Li, Lundberg, Machin, Marco Vivarelli, Melitz, Montobbio, Oxfam, Perkins, Ravallion, Robbins, Rodrik, Schiff, Stiglitz, Verbeek, Vivarelli, Wood, Wood, Xu, Yeaple, Zhu   +70 more
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Prostate Cancer Disparities and Management in Southern Africa: Insights into Practices, Norms and Values

Cancer Management and Research, 2022
Rahaba Marima,1 Mandisa Mbeje,1,2 Rodney Hull,1 Demetra Demetriou,1 Nompumelelo Mtshali,3 Zodwa Dlamini1 1SAMRC Precision Oncology Research Unit (PORU), DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Precision Oncology and Cancer Prevention (POCP), Pan African Cancer Research ...
Marima R, Mbeje M, Hull R, Demetriou D, Mtshali N, Dlamini Z   +5 more
doaj  

The varying impact of financial development on the environmental footprint due to geopolitical risk: The difference between high- and middle-income countries

Borsa Istanbul Review, 2023
The global debate among policy makers and environmentalists concerns how environmental degradation can be minimized without impeding economic growth. Because of intensification of geopolitical uncertainty, achieving this balance has become difficult.
Lan Khanh Chu, Huong Hoang Diep Truong, Dung Phuong Hoang   +2 more
doaj  

Rankings of countries based on rankings of universities [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Although many methods have been designed for ranking universities, there is no suitable system that focuses on the ranking of countries based on the performance of their universities. The overall ranking of the universities in a region can indicate the growth of interests in science among the people of that land.
arxiv