Ross T. Nickson, J.M. McArthur, William Burgess, Kazi Matin Ahmed et al.
Ross T. Nickson, J.M. McArthur, Peter Ravenscroft, W. G. Burgess et al.
Derek P. Tittensor, Matt Walpole, Samantha L. L. Hill, Daniel G. Boyce et al.
In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related "Aichi Targets" to be achieved within a decade. We provide a comprehensive mid-term assessment of progress toward these global targets using 55 indicator data sets. W...
Monika Böhm, Ben Collen, Jonathan Baillie, Philip Bowles et al.
Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which affect them. Knowledge of reptilian diversity remains surprisingly disparate, and innovative means of gaining rapi...
Alan MacDonald, H.C. Bonsor, Kazi Matin Ahmed, W. G. Burgess et al.
Peter Ravenscroft, William Burgess, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Melanie Burren et al.
Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci et al.
Abstract We study how women's choices over labor activities in village economies correlate with poverty and whether enabling the poorest women to take on the activities of their richer counterparts can set them on a sustainable trajectory out of poverty. To do this we conduct a large-scale randomize...
Abhijit Mukherjee, Poulomee Coomar, Soumyajit Sarkar, Karen H. Johannesson et al.
Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Diana Romero, Christopher J. Kopka, Salim S. Abdool Karim et al.
Abstract Despite notable scientific and medical advances, broader political, socioeconomic and behavioural factors continue to undercut the response to the COVID-19 pandemic 1,2 . Here we convened, as part of this Delphi study, a diverse, multidisciplinary panel of 386 academic, health, non-governme...
W. G. Burgess, M. A. Hoque, Holly A. Michael, Clifford I. Voss et al.
David M. Geiser, Abdullah M. S. Al‐Hatmi, Takayuki Aoki, Tsutomu Arie et al.
Scientific communication is facilitated by a data-driven, scientifically sound taxonomy that considers the end-user’s needs and established successful practice. In 2013, the Fusarium community voiced near unanimous support for a concept of Fusarium that represented a clade comprising all agricultura...
H.C. Bonsor, Alan MacDonald, Kazi Matin Ahmed, W. G. Burgess et al.
The Indo-Gangetic aquifer is one of the world's most important transboundary water resources, and the most heavily exploited aquifer in the world. To better understand the aquifer system, typologies have been characterized for the aquifer, which integrate existing datasets across the Indo-Gangetic c...
Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess et al.
We design a labor market experiment to compare demand‐ and supply‐side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low‐income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to compare the effect of offering workers either vocational training (VT) or firm‐provi...
Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak et al.
There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in fundamentals, such as ability, talent, or motivation. The poverty traps view emphasizes differences in opportunities that stem from access to wealth. To test these views, we exploit a large-scale, randomized asset tr...
Carol A. Gilchrist, Sarah E. Petri, Brittany N. Schneider, Daniel Reichman et al.
BACKGROUND: An estimated 1 million children die each year before their fifth birthday from diarrhea. Previous population-based surveys of pediatric diarrheal diseases have identified the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica, the etiological agent of amebiasis, as one of the causes of moderate-to...