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State of the World's Children

Author : UNICEF.

Publisher : UNICEF

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 22,28 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9280644424

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On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children's Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World's Children to examining the Convention's evolution, progress achieved on child rights, challenges remaining, and actions to be taken to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children.



Food and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea

Author : R. Michael Bourke

Publisher : ANU E Press

Page : 665 pages

File Size : 27,64 MB

Release : 2009-08-01

Category : Cooking

ISBN : 1921536616

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Agriculture dominates the rural economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG). More than five million rural dwellers (80% of the population) earn a living from subsistence agriculture and selling crops in domestic and international markets. Many aspects of agriculture in PNG are described in this data-rich book. Topics include agricultural environments in which crops are grown; production of food crops, cash crops and animals; land use; soils; demography; migration; the macro-economic environment; gender issues; governance of agricultural institutions; and transport. The history of agriculture over the 50 000 years that PNG has been occupied by humans is summarised. Much of the information presented is not readily available within PNG. The book contains results of many new analyses, including a food budget for the entire nation. The text is supported by 165 tables and 215 maps and figures.



How was Life?

Author : J. L. van Zanden

Publisher : OCDE

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 20,74 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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How was life in 1820 and how has it improved since then? What are the long-term trends in global well-being? Trends in real GDP per capita may not fully reflect changes in other dimensions of well-being, such as life expectancy, educational attainment, personal security, and gender inequality. The product of collaboration between the OECD, the OECD Development Centre, and the CLIOINFRA project, this report represents the work of a group of economic historians to systematically chart long-term changes in the dimensions of global wellbeing and inequality, making use of the best sources and expertise currently available and the most recent research carried out within the discipline. The historical evidence reviewed in the report is organized on ten different dimensions of well-being that mirror those used by the OECD in its report, How's Life? (www.oecd.org/howslife): per capita GDP, real wages, educational attainment, life expectancy, height, personal security, political institutions, environmental quality, income inequality, and gender inequality



The Demographic Dividend

Author : David Bloom

Publisher : Rand Corporation

Page : 127 pages

File Size : 27,48 MB

Release : 2003-02-13

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0833033735

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There is long-standing debate on how population growth affects national economies. A new report from Population Matters examines the history of this debate and synthesizes current research on the topic. The authors, led by Harvard economist David Bloom, conclude that population age structure, more than size or growth per se, affects economic development, and that reducing high fertility can create opportunities for economic growth if the right kinds of educational, health, and labor-market policies are in place. The report also examines specific regions of the world and how their differing policy environments have affected the relationship between population change and economic development.



Gender Analysis in Papua New Guinea

Author : Elizabeth C. Brouwer

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 164 pages

File Size : 17,27 MB

Release : 1998-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780821343944

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In October 1996, The East Asia and Pacific Region developed a Regional Gender Action Plan that stressed the importance of country-specific strategies regarding gender issues. This report on gender in Papua New Guinea intends to lay the foundation for such a strategy. The report provides an outline of the key historical, economic, demographic, political, geographic, socio-cultural, legal and institutional issues that are relevant to understanding the status of women in Papua New Guinea today.



Family Demography in Asia

Author : Stuart Gietel-Basten

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 412 pages

File Size : 44,8 MB

Release : 2018-11-30

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1785363557

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The demographic future of Asia is a global issue. As the biggest driver of population growth, an understanding of patterns and trends in fertility throughout Asia is critical to understand our shared demographic future. This is the first book to comprehensively and systematically analyse fertility across the continent through the perspective of individuals themselves rather than as a consequence of top-down government policies.





Population, Reproduction, and Fertility in Melanesia

Author : Stanley J. Ulijaszek

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 33,28 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 9781571816443

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Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense.



Papua New Guinea

Author : John Connell

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 444 pages

File Size : 32,97 MB

Release : 2005-07-28

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1134938314

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Papua New Guinea is the first book to explore the economic development of this socially complex, rapidly changing nation. Subjects discussed include: * rapid economic growth and political conflict * civil war on the island of Bougainville * population growth and urbanisation * mining: gold, copper and environmental conflicts * uneven development and social divisions.



Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

Author : Alan D. Lopez

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 511 pages

File Size : 12,42 MB

Release : 2006-04-02

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0821362631

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Strategic health planning, the cornerstone of initiatives designed to achieve health improvement goals around the world, requires an understanding of the comparative burden of diseases and injuries, their corresponding risk factors and the likely effects of invervention options. The Global Burden of Disease framework, originally published in 1990, has been widely adopted as the preferred method for health accounting and has become the standard to guide the setting of health research priorities. This publication sets out an updated assessment of the situation, with an analysis of trends observed since 1990 and a chapter on the sensitivity of GBD estimates to various sources of uncertainty in methods and data.