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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  Many African countries have placed economic diversification high on the policy agenda, yet they first need to define what it means in their specific structural and socioeconomic contexts. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Summary For decades, economic diversification has been a policy priority for low- and middle-income economies. In the words of former managing director of the ...

 E-Mail Researchers have long known that problem drinking increases a mans likelihood of being violent towards his wife or girlfriend, but a new study published today by the scientific journal Addiction suggests that this relationship between drinking and violence is also affected by the mans attitude toward womens equality; that is, toxic masculinity also plays a role. In a study of men in low and middle income countries, heavy drinking males were more likely to commit violence against thei...

Tropical rainforests Tropical rainforests are the most biodiverse places on earth – they support around three quarters of the planets land-based species. The worlds forests are also the lungs of the world. They store huge quantities of carbon and act as one of the key regulating mechanisms for the global climate. In this way, the worlds whole human population depends on tropical rainforests. More directly, millions of people live in and depend on them. The forests of the w...

“What would you do if someone dumped nine Olympic swimming pools of oil into your community?” This is the question that is splayed across Amnesty International’s webpage on the Niger Delta oil spills. As it turns out, since 2011, Shell alone has reported 1,010 spills, with 110,535 barrels or 17.5 million litres dumped into water bodies in the Niger Delta—a conservative number, as the Nigerian government and other experts have estimated it to be even more. As this data is from 2018, the ...

ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021 UPDATED: April 27, 2021 21:17 IST Migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna junction railway station, Aoril 10, 2021 For over a fortnight now, 24-year-old Chander Kumar from Bihar’s Bahadurpur village has been living with a sense of déjà vu in his one-room shack in Delhi’s Chhatarpur area. His smartphone has been flashing constant updates on Covid-19 cases in the national capital where he works as a domestic help. He is in two minds, and despite ...

Making data and statistics more inclusive in developing countries Young Asian woman with smiling face sitting in the wheelchair. plo/Shutterstock.com Measuring disability through household surveys and population censuses is challenging and there is not a gold standard approach. In censuses or surveys, disability is often captured through questions on functional difficulties (e.g. seeing, hearing), activities of daily living (e.g. bending, bathing), broad activity limitation (e.g. inability to ...

India has a long history of partnership with Africa, with solidarity and political affinity going back to the early 1920s when both regions were fighting against colonial rule and oppression. India’s freedom movement had an internationalist outlook; many Indian nationalists viewed the struggle for independence as part of the worldwide movement against imperialism. After India gained independence, it became a leading voice in support of African decolonisation at the United Nations. Independent...

Seven years down the line, Adeyemo has not only built an organization that seamlessly creates solutions that make the environment safer but has successfully built a brand that has got the attention of Bill Gates and his Billionaires’ friends. The Billionaires included Arnergy Solutions in the Top 5 Cleantech outfits that will help save the Planet. The plan of Bill Gates and his friends is to invest in scientific breakthroughs that have the potential to deliver cheap and reliab...

ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021 UPDATED: April 24, 2021 12:57 IST Migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna junction railway station, Aoril 10, 2021 For over a fortnight now, 24-year-old Chander Kumar from Bihar’s Bahadurpur village has been living with a sense of déjà vu in his one-room shack in Delhi’s Chhatarpur area. His smartphone has been flashing constant updates on Covid-19 cases in the national capital where he works as a domestic help. He is in two minds, and despite ...

2International Livestock Research Institute, Dakar, Senegal The expected increase in livestock production to meet its increasing demand could lead to increased water depletion through feeds production. This study aimed at estimating the amount of water depletion through feeds and its corresponding productivity in livestock within the three dominant livestock management systems namely sedentary-intensive, sedentary-extensive, and transhumance in Yatenga and Seno provinces in the Sahelian zone of...