David Coady, Margaret Grosh, John Hoddinott
No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Targeting of Transfers in Developing CountriesReview of Lessons and ExperienceAuthors/Editors: David Coady, Margaret Grosh, John HoddinottDavid Coady, Margaret Grosh, John Hoddinotthttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-5769-7SectionsAboutPDF (1.2 MB) ToolsAdd...
David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
Management has a large effect on the productivity of medium and large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labor force in developing countries works? We develop 26 questions that measure business practices in marketing, stock-keeping, record-keeping, ...
David Gunnell, Duleeka Knipe, Shu‐Sen Chang, Melissa Pearson et al.
BACKGROUND: Pesticide self-poisoning accounts for 14-20% of suicides worldwide. Regulation aimed at restricting access to pesticides or banning highly hazardous pesticides is one approach to reducing these deaths. We systematically reviewed the evidence of the effectiveness of pesticide regulation i...
David A. Warrell
Russell's viper, Vipera russelli (Shaw), is distributed erratically in 10 south Asian countries and is a leading cause of fatal snake bite in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand. In Burma it has been the 5th most important cause of death. Its venom is of great interest to labo...
Alka M. Kanaya, Namratha R. Kandula, David M. Herrington, Matthew J. Budoff et al.
BACKGROUND: South Asians (individuals from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) have high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) that cannot be explained by traditional risk factors. There are few prospective cohort studies investigating antecedents of CVD in South Asians. OBJECTIVES: T...
C. A. Ross, David M. Jerome, Joseph W. Tedesco, Mary L. Hughes
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Ayanthi Karunarathne, David Gunnell, Flemming Konradsen, Michael Eddleston
Introduction: The agricultural Green Revolution in the 1950s and 60s is thought to have averted many deaths from famine. However, it also introduced highly hazardous pesticides such as parathion and endrin into poor rural communities that were totally unequipped to store or use them safely. Pesticid...
Sharanabasappa S. Deshmukh, H. B. Pavithra, C. M. Kalleshwaraswamy, B. K. Shivanna et al.
The invasive fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), was reported for the first time causing severe damage on maize in Karnataka, India, during May 2018. Thereafter, the pest has spread to most states of India and then spread to other Asian countries, including Th...
Preface Contributors Introduction Part I. Conceptual and Historical Perspectives: 1. Rethinking security: a critical review and appraisal of the debate Muthiah Alagappa 2. International politics in Asia: the historical context Muthiah Alagappa Part II. Security Practice: Country Studies: 3. China: s...
Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Tushar Shaw, George M. Varghese, David A. B. Dance
Despite the fact that South Asia is predicted to have the highest number of cases worldwide, melioidosis is a little-known entity in South Asian countries. It has never been heard of by the majority of doctors and has as yet failed to gain the attention of national Ministries of Health and country o...
Bilkis A. Begum, Swapan Kumar Biswas, Gauri Girish Pandit, I. V. Saradhi et al.
Transboundary transport of air pollution in the South Asian region has been an issue of increasing importance over the past several decades. Long–range transport of anthropogenic pollution is contrasted with that of pollution produced by natural processes such as dust storms or natural forest fires....
John Horton, Christoffer Tobias Witt, Eric A. Ottesen, Janis Lazdins et al.
This review of the safety of the co-administration regimens to be used in programmes to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (albendazole + ivermectin or albendazole + diethylcarbamazine [DEC]) is based on 17 studies conducted in Sri Lanka, India, Haiti, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Ecuador, the Philippines, G...
Sarah Lamb
Intimacy in a Transnational Era:The Remaking of Aging among Indian Americans1 Sarah Lamb (bio) Sarah Lamb Brandeis University Sarah Lamb Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is the author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North Indi...
Tuhin Biswas, Nick Townsend, M. Mamun Huda, Joemer C Maravilla et al.
Background: Modifiable non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors are becoming increasingly common among adolescents, with clustering of these risk factors in individuals of particular concern. The aim of this study was to assess global status of clustering of common modifiable NCD risk factors amo...
Namratha R. Kandula, Alka M. Kanaya, Kiang Liu, Ji Young Lee et al.
BACKGROUND: Ten-year and lifetime cardiovascular risk assessment algorithms have been adopted into atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) prevention guidelines, but these prediction models are not based on South Asian populations and may underestimate the risk in Indians, Pakistanis, Banglad...
Aditi Gupta, David J. Chivers
Primate habitats in south-east Asia span the two main forest formations of this part of the Oriental region – the deciduous monsoon rainforests of mainland Asia north of the isthmus of Kra and the evergreen rain forests of the “islands” of the Sunda Shelf (Whitmore, 1975). The evergreen rainforests ...
Priyanthi Fernando, Gina Porter
* 1. Introduction: Bridging the Gap between Gender and Transport - Priyanthi Fernando and Gina Porter * 2. Social Exclusion and Rural Transport: * A road improvement project, Tshitwe, South Africa - Mac Mashiri and Sabina Mahapa * 3. Intermediate Means of Transport and Gender Relations - Zimbabwe - ...
Aneire Khan, Wei Xun, Habibul Ahsan, Paolo Vineis
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. IPCC, "IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Asia," in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, UK: ...
David B. Lank, Constance M. Smith
David C. Pyrooz, Andrew M. Fox, Scott H. Decker
Abstract There is a lack of macro‐level gang research. The present study addresses this shortcoming by providing a theoretically informed analysis of gang membership in large US cities. More specifically, our goal is to determine whether racial and ethnic heterogeneity conditions the relationship be...