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Socioeconomic vulnerability in China's hydropower development
China Economic Review, 2008Abstract Approximately 78% of China's electricity demand is met by burning coal, which has taken a serious toll on the environment. Hydropower represents a sustainable alternative source, and China already derives 16% of its electricity supply from hydropower.
Phil Brown, Darrin Magee, Yilin Xu
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The potential of astronomy for socioeconomic development in Africa
Nature Astronomy, 2018Since 2013, the International Astronomical Union’s Office of Astronomy for Development has been funding and nurturing astronomy-for-development projects across the globe. In Africa, these projects aim to use astronomy to stimulate educational, technological and socioeconomic development.
McBride, Vanessa +4 more
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Optimum Information Technology for Socioeconomic Development
Information Management & Computer Security, 1994Uses the analytic hierarchy process to identify and rank the multi‐criteria which influence the socioeconomic goal of improving the quality of life and then classify these factors based on their levels of difficulty. Uses quality function deployment to establish a linkage between socioeconomic factors and information technology programs.
Christian N. Madu, Chu-hua Kuei
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The Socioeconomic Impact of Schooling in a Developing Country
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1984tional attainments suggests the usefulness of special training programs for unskilled immigrants. Further, the persistence of racial differentials underscores the importance of the enforcement of anti-bias employment regulations to protect non-white immigrants.
Behrman, Jere R, Wolfe, Barbara L
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Food and Socioeconomic Development
1976Food and health are two inseparable fundamental biological principles on which the evolution and progress of mankind are partially based. Health is the final consequence of many interrelated and interdependent physical, biological, and sociocultural factors, among which food and, therefore, nutrition is one of the most important (1).
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Nutrition work in socioeconomic development agencies
Food Policy, 1985Abstract Since the early 1980s nutritional levels have deteriorated in Latin America. The multilateral development agencies are stepping up their attempts at incorporating nutrition considerations into selected agricultural, fisheries and rural development projects.
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Socioeconomic Development in Bulgaria
2016The Bulgarian transition from a centralized to a market-oriented economy started in 1990. Inconsistent changes and almost constant decline in income, reduction in employment rate, and high inflation characterized the period between 1990 and 1996. As a result, in the second half of 1996 and the beginning of 1997, Bulgaria found itself on the verge of a ...
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Socioeconomic Development and Quality of Life in Italy
2003The paper concerns the analysis of the evolution of Quality of Life (QOL) in Italy considering the size of the cities and the geo-economic division of the country. In particular, starting from the model of the Three Italies elaborated by Bagnasco in the seventies, it shows the linkages existing between different types of socioeconomic development and ...
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