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The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of google searches
Scientific Reports, 2023 Real-time data is essential for policymakers to adapt to a rapidly evolving situation like the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from 221 countries and territories, we demonstrate the capacity of Google search data to anticipate reported COVID-19 cases and ...
Robert Marty +3 more
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Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 2008 The control of human onchocerciasis (river blindness) is one of the most successful global partnerships ever supported by the World Bank. Mectizan mass treatments have greatly contributed to this success and have shaped the strategies of the programmes in which the World Bank has been involved - the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP), which covered
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Trade in Developing East Asia: How It Has Changed and Why It Matters
East Asian Economic Review, 2018 East Asia, for long the epitome of successful engagement in trade, faces serious challenges: technological change that may threaten the very model of labor intensive industrialization and a backlash against globalization that may reduce access to ...
Cristina Constantinescu +2 more
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Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2015 The 2001–02 Argentine crisis had a profound impact on Uruguay’s economy. Uruguay’s gross domestic product shrank by 17.5 percent, and the proportion of people living below the poverty line doubled in only two years.
Oscar Barriga Cabanillas +4 more
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China Economic Quarterly International, 2021 Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, we examine the role of a comprehensive list of business and institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth.
José-Daniel Reyes +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.Abstract Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive hemoglobinopathy affecting millions of individuals worldwide. The clinical expression and psychosocial burden of SCD vary widely across geographical, cultural, and healthcare system contexts, underscoring the need for setting‐specific approaches to assessment.
Desiré Fantasia +7 more
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Socioeconomic disparities in mobility behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries
EPJ Data ScienceMobile phone data have played a key role in quantifying human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing studies on mobility patterns have primarily focused on regional aggregates in high-income countries, obfuscating the accentuated impact of the ...
Lorenzo Lucchini +8 more
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Social Protection in MENA [PDF]
, 2005 An overview of economic and social risks and reforms in the social protection system in the MENA ...
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Hemoglobinopathies are prevalent globally; diagnosis is complex in high genetic admixture populations like Brazil. We report, in two pediatric siblings, the first documented cases in Brazil of heterozygosity for hemoglobin (Hb) O‐Arab with coinheritance of α‐thalassemia (αα/−α4.2; −α3.7/−α4.2), resulting in microcytic and hypochromic anemia ...
Elisângela de Souza Miranda Muynarsk +9 more
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Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019 A complete civil registration and vital statistics system is the best source of data for measuring most of the Sustainable Development Goal 3 indicators. However, civil registration does not include migration data, which are necessary for calculating the
Samuel Mills +2 more
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