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Drug Rehabilitation and Practice Dilemmas in the Maldives [PDF]
, 2006 Substance misuse is a global phenomenon. However, little is known about substance misuse issues in Islamic nations or about the provision of preventative and rehabilitative services in such nations. This thesis explores the legal context of such services
Ageel, Ihsana
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Becoming and being academic women: Perspectives from the Maldives
Cogent Education, 2015 This exploratory study aimed at understanding the role of women teaching in a university in the Maldives is a first of its kind. The many studies of academic women in Western countries guided the 20 semi-structured interviews.
T.W. Maxwell +5 more
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New biothreat of JN.1 variant SARS CoV-2: viral genome, mutations and comparison with Delta and Omicron variants – a brief commentary [PDF]
Infectious Diseases and Tropical MedicineSARS-CoV-2, the etiologic agent of COVID-19, is susceptible to mutations and emerged into many variants. This study aims to investigate a new variant called JN.1 with a remarkable number of mutations reported from many countries.
S. Kannan +7 more
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Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post‐MFA Era: Exploring Bangladesh's Competitive Edge
Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study revisits Bangladesh's competitive edge by examining patterns of global apparel trade during the post‐Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MFA) era using a large bilateral panel of 27 leading apparel exporters trading with 163 destinations with coverage of 90% of the world apparel exports.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman
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Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
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Trans‐oceanic migration and wind utilization by Amur Falcons (Falco amurensis)
Ibis, EarlyView.The Amur Falcon Falco amurensis performs one of the world's longest raptor migrations, involving a non‐stop crossing of the Indian Ocean of approximately 2800 km. While the existence of this route is known, the mechanistic details of wind exploitation and seasonal navigation remain to be fully elucidated.
Bernd‐Ulrich Meyburg +3 more
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Synchrony on the reef: how environmental factors shape coral spawning patterns in Acropora corals in the Maldives [PDF]
PeerJElucidating our knowledge on the reproductive phenology of scleractinian corals and the environmental drivers of reproductive synchronicity is pivotal for assessing gene flow between populations and the potential for ecosystem recovery.
Kate Sheridan +4 more
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). To this end the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment.
Amat Adarov +2 more
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VULNERABILITY AND POVERTY DYNAMICS IN THE MALDIVES [PDF]
Despite rapid economic and social development of the Maldives, the vulnerability of the island population in terms of poverty remains high. Using household panel data for the period 1997/98 Ð 2004 we show that, although the majority of the poor manages ...
Martine Rutten, Hans de Kruijk
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IMF Staff Country ReportsThe 2024 Article IV Consultation highlights that despite headwinds from the war in Ukraine, the Maldives’ economic recovery from coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has shown resilience. Real gross domestic product growth is estimated to moderate to 4.4 percent in 2023, before gradually rising to 5.2 percent in 2024.
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