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International oil and gas exploration and development: 1991

2008

listed for about 85 countries, where available, from 1970 through 1991. World and regional summaries are given in both …

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Effect of market structure on international coal trade

Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009

examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …

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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria

Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

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Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan

Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim - 1989

Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...

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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa

van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986

The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … censuses and demographic surveys particularly the World Fertility Survey to ascertain trends in fertility and mortality. The … Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and …

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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975

Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980

This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...

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Mechanisms affecting the link between nuptiality and fertility: Tanzania, 1973

Sekatawa, Emmanuel K. - 1981

The analytical framework proposed by Davis and Blake (1956) divides the process of reproduction into three elements: (i) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with the first element. Data from the 1973 National...

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Connectivity and the Digital Divide – Technology, Policy, and Design tradeoffs for Developing Regions

Tongia, Rahul - 2006

for broadband, using estimated costs and some limited real-world emerging economy data, we can see what reasons there are … idealized model, I also present a new design for broadband across Africa (“FiberAfrica”) based on GIS modeling and a bottom …

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Connectivity and the Digital Divide – Technology, Policy, and Design tradeoffs for Developing Regions

Tongia, Rahul - 2006

for broadband, using estimated costs and some limited real-world emerging economy data, we can see what reasons there are … the idealized model, I also present a new design for broadband across Africa (“FiberAfrica”) based on GIS modeling and a …

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Health and Growth: Causality through Education

Huang, Rui; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Peterson, E. Wesley F. - 2009

investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa and the role of health in the level of educational … attainment and slower economic growth world wide. …

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