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Once the current political crisis in Yemen has been resolved, it will be ever more urgent to speed up progress … model for strategy analysis, and a linked microsimulation model, this paper addresses Yemen’s MDG challenges. A first …
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This paper provides a model-based assessment of local and global climate change impacts for the case of Yemen, focusing … global climate models (GCMs) with respect to future rainfall patterns in Yemen. Local climate change impacts manifest itself …
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assessment of the agricultural, economy-wide, and nutritional impacts of the 2008 Hadramout flash flood in Yemen. The model …
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This paper reviews the German miners' model of mutual insurance from its introduction in 1854 to its basic reformation in 1923. Its core feature was the provision of cash benefits for compensation of income losses due to temporary sickness and permanent invalidity or death of the bread-winner....
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Industrial mining is currently one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy, particularly in the Global … South. The present mining boom is, however, accompanied by numerous conflicts: conflicts over labour relations, over … ecological systems, and over the distribution of profits and tax revenues. In this paper, a typology of mining conflicts is …
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' framing strategies in conflicts over large-scale mining and agro-industrial projects. Discursive opportunity structures (DOS … discursive structures. Empirically, the study compares conflicts over gold mining and agro-industry in Senegal. Some elements of …Konflikte um großflächige Landtransformationen zugunsten von Bergbau und Agrarindustrie haben in den letzten Jahren …
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mining activities, and shows for the case of South Africa how it can be implemented numerically. The CGE model belongs to the …
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protests against gold and coal mining. …
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"Malnutrition is part of a vicious cycle involving associated underlying factors; meaning that undernourishment is related not only to biological but also social aspects (WHO, 1995). Some factors - known as proximal factors - are directly associated with malnutrition, such as inadequate dietary...
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