The report is organized into seven chapters, as follows, with additional text supported by data in the annexes: this first chapter sets out the context for the report, presents the objectives, outlines the methodology and approach, and briefly introduces the scope and organization. Chapter two...

The objective of this report is to assess the usefulness of providing guidance for scaling up good practices in core ARD business lines, and to test the prospects for doing so. The output of the document is a guide for a systematic discussion on scaling up of Competitive Grant Schemes (CGSs) for...

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals is impossible without addressing fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV), especially as two thirds of the extreme poor are projected to live in such situations by 2030. Conflicts as well as climatic and natural hazards displace millions of people...

Wind power, as a promising renewable energy source, has environmental benefits, as well as economic and social ones. To evaluate wind energy properly and efficiently, this study proposes a hybrid forecasting approach that combines the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM), which rarely presents in...

Objectives We assessed the contribution of health insurance and a functioning public sector to access to care and medicines and household economic burden.Methods We used descriptive and logistic regression analyses on 2002/3 World Health Survey data in 70 countries.Results Across countries,...

The paper examines the optimal monetary policy when firms are constrained by information processing capability and infrequent price adjustments. Firms' information processing limit gives rise to imperfect knowledge about macroeconomic aggregates and endogenous information learning contingent on...

This aim of this study was to determine the extent of any convergence in house prices across China, using a regional panel data set. The results showed little evidence of convergence across the regions, although there is evidence of a ripple effect starting in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing,...

Greenhouse gas emission has been scientifically shown to be the primary cause of observed global climate change. The reduction of greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere deserves international attention. Aside from strategies to reduce emissions, increasing carbon (C) storage by forests has...

Hydrogen supersaturation in extreme-thermophilic (70°C) mixed culture fermentation (MCF) was demonstrated for the first time by membrane inlet mass spectrometry. It was found that hydrogen supersaturation ratio (RH2) increased dramatically (from 1.0 to 20.6) when H2 partial pressure (PH2) was...

We assessed the contribution of health insurance and a functioning public sector to access to care and medicines and household economic burden.