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This lecture examines current Amazonian populations, highlighting that the Amazon today is home to more than 47 million people, 60% of which live in urban areas. There are nearly 2.2 million…
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Kavaja General Hospital Project in Albania was aimed to complement the efforts of the Government of Albania in maintaining appropriate health standards for the population and to specifically provide…
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Islamic social finance institutions can be developed to protect against the impact of negative shocks on poorer households. In the case of negative shocks, zakat can be used as debt relief for the…
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Financial exclusion can exist due to involuntary or voluntary reasons. Involuntary financial exclusion arises due to economic or social reasons as financial institutions are reluctant to provide…
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The aim of this chapter is to outline water challenges in the Mediterranean by describing some water related common problems, such as: concentration of population in coastal areas, degradation of…
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This lecture is about marine aquaculture, the fastest growing food sector in the world. You will learn in this lecture that eating tuna is actually like eating a wolf-eater, if it was an equivalent…
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Learning about marine food webs is essential to understand how the ocean provides us with seafood. Enjoy the whiteboard animation before watching Chapter 4.2 "Dance of the Plankton." This…
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Jeffrey Sachs and Peter H. Lindert
discuss Prof. Lindert’s new book: Making Social Spending Work. Lindert’s new work brilliantly examines the
history of public social spending around…
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The middle class which used to be a concept that was only relevant to a few countries in North America and in Europe has really shifted dramatically today to Asia. And that change in the composition…
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This video is the second video of unit 5.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and Xinyue Gu. What are…
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6 February, 2021
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During the initial stages of development, Korean society also faced a severe brain drain. A not insignificant number of people left to study abroad. Between 1953 and 1967, 7,958 people dropped out,…
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This lecture is about long run trends in automation and technological change and its impacts on work and well being for the population. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
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Nathanial Matthews of the Global Resilience Partnership answers questions on the water-energy nexus and how climate change, population growth and economic change will put increasing demands on both…
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Did you know that experts estimate an additional three billion people will live in cities by 2050? What will the impact be on the current world population – half of which currently lives in…
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This chapter serves as a recap for the importance of industrialization for African countries, particularly in view of the young and growing population, the four key drivers of industrialization, and…
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This chapter discusses challenges for sustainable farming globally and in the Mediterranean region. Dynamic population growth poses the first problem; by 2050, the world population will probably be…
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