J.M. McArthur, Peter Ravenscroft, S. Safiulla, M. F. Thirlwall
In the deltaic plain of the Ganges‐Meghna‐Brahmaputra Rivers, arsenic concentrations in groundwater commonly exceed regulatory limits (>50 µg L −1 ) because FeOOH is microbially reduced and releases its sorbed load of arsenic to groundwater. Neither pyrite oxidation nor competitive exchange with ...
Dao Viet Nga, Pham Thi Kim Trang, Vu Thi Duyen, Tran Thi et al.
Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a major health problem and has been a growing concern in the last decade in several regions of the world, especially in South and Southeast Asia, including the Red River delta, Vietnam. Regional groundwater studies have been carried out in the vicinity of Hano...
Peter Ellis, Mark C. Roberts
No AccessNov 2015Leveraging Urbanization for Greater Prosperity and LivabilityAuthors/Editors: Peter Ellis, Mark RobertsPeter EllisSearch for more papers by this author, Mark RobertsSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0662-9_ch1View ChaptersAboutFull TextPDF (0.6 ...
Sudhakar Patra, Kabita Kumari Sahu
ABSTRACTThe objective of this paper is to analyze the consumer price inflation in South Asian Countries from 2000 to 2008. The annual percentage change in CPI and Average Annual Growth Rate in Consumer Price Indices are analyzed to examine the trend of inflation in South Asian Countries like Afghani...
Serena Sordi
Our dataset is annual and comprehends the period from 1980 to 2014 for 20 Latin American and 14 Asian countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, El Salvador, Uruguay,...
Minh Son Le
Trade liberalisation is frequently advocated as a major potential contributor to economic growth and development. Many developing countries, such as Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Ghana, Uganda, and particularly Vietnam, attained high economic growth and reduced poverty considerably....
José Pablo Arellano, Alasdair I. MacBean, Ann Weston, Hazem El‐Beblawi et al.
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John H. Drabble, Andrew Turton, Clifford Geertz, Swadesh R. Bose et al.
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