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Non-industrialised countries and affluence [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Medical Bulletin, 2001
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rising rapidly in all non-industrialised populations. By 2025, three-quarters of the world's 300 million adults with diabetes will be in non-industrialised countries, and almost a third in India and China alone. There is strong evidence that this epidemic has been triggered by social and economic development and ...
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The State Of Democracy In Advanced Industrialised Societies

open access: yesPolitikon, 2005
Throughout the last two centuries and especially since the Second World War, no theme has more preoccupied the fields of political science and political sociology than nature, conditions and possibilities of democracy.
Jesper Lysgard
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Globalisation

open access: yesPSL Quarterly Review, 2013
Globalisation, which was predicted by experts to do away with the nation state and create a single world market, has not turned out exactly as foretold.
H.W. ARNDT H.W.
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HIV care in non-industrialised countries [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Medical Bulletin, 2001
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is now most rapidly expanding in the non-industrialised world. As more and more poor people fall sick and die prematurely, the issue of care for the HIV-infected person living in a resource-poor country is of paramount importance.
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Science policy at the crossroads of global change research: Mongolia

open access: yesProceedings of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2021
In the last more than half a century, the science policies of countries have been interchanging in a cyclical manner between science, technology and innovation policies.
Enkhamgalan Damiran   +3 more
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Eduardo Torroja. 1949 Strategy to Industrialise Housing in Post-World War II

open access: yesHistories of Postwar Architecture, 2017
The huge housing demand existing in Spain in 1949 could not be met by traditional construction systems. The severe social problem thus generated was not exclusive to Spain: the countries that had participated in World War II were facing the same ...
Pepa Cassinello
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The Financial and Economic Crisis and Developing Countries

open access: yesRevue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2010
Developing countries were hit hard by the financial and economic crisis, although the impact was somewhat delayed. Every country had different challenges to master.
Bruno Gurtner
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The readiness of industry for a transformative recovery from COVID 19

open access: yesGlobal Sustainability, 2020
Many countries are committed to emerge from COVID 19 on a more sustainable environmental footing. Here we explore what such a structurally transformative recovery would mean for the manufacturing sector of 14 major economies.
Sam Fankhauser   +2 more
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Successful Spatial Development Requires Comprehensive Mobility, Represented on an Example of a Middle Centre in China

open access: yesPromet (Zagreb), 2003
Increasing demand of traffic is in strong interaction withspatial as well as economic development. The resulting problemsparticularly appear in countries with high population densityand high development potential.
Ullrich Martin
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Inequality of learning in industrialized countries [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
Abstract The importance of human capital in determining incomes leads quickly to interest in the extent of educational inequalities. Differences in education have a major impact on the distribution of earnings and on the number and characteristics of the poor.
Micklewright, John, Schnepf, Sylke V.
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