Book review: <i>The Wealth of Cities</i> <i>and the Poverty of Nations</i> by B. Belina

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Nigeria: Hungry Nation in a Land of Plenty by Philip Fwaldin Kasuwa

“…The goal of this work is to 1) analyse the concept of national wealth and its implications for economic development, 2) investigate the factors contributing to hunger and food insecurity in Nigeria despite its abundant resources, 3) provide insights and recommendations for addressing the country’s wealth inequality and hunger challenges, and 4) contribute to the academic understanding of the complex relationship between wealth, poverty, and development in nations. …”
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Wealth: A Family Matter by Céline Bessière, Maude Pugliese

“…But exploring inequalities in asset and debt also provides a better understanding of family relationships, since wealth participates in the making of the family. Contribution: This introductory article affirms the importance of studying family wealth strategies across all social classes, and of multiplying the historical, national and cultural contexts of study.…”
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Operation Wealth Creation and Poverty Reduction in Kabale District: A Case Study of Rubaya Sub-County by Marion, Katusiime

“…Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) faced a number of challenges, such as poor coordination among stakeholders at both national and district levels across the agricultural sector, low quantity and quality inputs, huge losses due to no or limited extension services, a lack of supervision and monitoring of OWC activities, corruption, and elite capture, among others.…”
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Wealth-based inequality in underweight among Scheduled Tribe women in India: a regional analysis by Anshika Singh, Aditya Singh, Mahashweta Chakrabarty, Shivani Singh, Pooja Tripathi

“…Abstract Background Despite widespread undernutrition among tribal women, there is limited understanding of wealth-based disparities in underweight within this group and how these inequities have changed over time across different regions of India. …”
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Operation Wealth Creation and Poverty Reduction in Kabale District: A Case Study of Rubaya Sub-County by Katusiime, Marion

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The contributions of foreign aid and natural resource wealth to democratic institutions: Evidence from over 40 years of sub-Sahara Africa's history by Alex O. Acheampong, John Taden

“…Using five different democracy indices, six different foreign aid variables and six different natural resource rent variables, our endogeneity-corrected results establish the following conclusions: (i) all the democracy indices respond positively and significantly to multilateral foreign aid, total development assistance committee (DAC) aid and bilateral aid from Australia, the USA, the United Nations, and the European Union (ii) the political resource curse, rentier and repression theories are valid for rent from mineral, gas and oil resources (iii) the democracy indices respond positively and significantly to rent from coal and forest resources (iv) the effect of foreign aid on the democracy indices is contingent on natural resource wealth (v) these findings are robust to an alternative econometric estimation technique and specifications. …”
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Global oil risk price management in Iran and Russia by S. Alikhani

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MEMBERSHIP IN NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AMONG WORKERS IN INDONESIA by Ratna Dwi Wulandari, Agung Dwi Laksono, Tumaji Tumaji, Maria Holly Herawati, Noer Endah Pracoyo, Ina Kusrini

“…Background: The government regulates National Health Insurance (NHI), making it mandatory for everyone. …”
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Integration of Islamic Jurisprudence Principles within the UN Global Human Security Framework by Munawar Fuad

“…The findings reveal a strong alignment between maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa and the human security dimensions outlined by the UN, encompassing protection of religion, life, intellect, lineage, and wealth. By incorporating Islamic principles, this research offers a culturally inclusive and ethically grounded approach to global security challenges. …”
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Oil and Iran Regions Rural Economic Structure Alteration by Hassan Afrakhteh, Mohammad Hajipur, Farhad Javan

“…Result show that there have not been any incentive in the local, regional and national management for strengthening rural economic structure using oil wealth. …”
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Meal Pattern in the Colombian Population: Results of the National Nutrition Survey. ENSIN, 2015 by María del Pilar Zea, Oscar F. Herrán

“…Design. Cross-sectional, nationally representative surveys. Setting. Colombia. …”
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Quality of antenatal care services in Afghanistan: findings from the national survey 2022–2023 by Essa Tawfiq, Muhammad Haroon Stanikzai, Zabihullah Anwary, Khalid Akbari, Hadia Sayam, Abdul Wahed Wasiq, Omid Dadras

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Prevalence of and factors associated with tobacco smoking in the Gambia: a national cross-sectional study by Abu Naser Zafar Ullah, Md Shariful Islam, Md Golam Rabbani, Haifaa AlWajeah, Md Ferdous, Nusrat Sharmin Mahfuza, Daniel Konka, Eva Silenga

“…We included 16,066 men and women in our final analysis.Data analysis We analysed data from the Gambia Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), 2019–2020. DHS collected nationally stratified data from local government areas and rural–urban areas. …”
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Doing Justice to the Future: A global index of intergenerational solidarity derived from national statistics by Jamie McQuilkin

“…Nine indicators are drawn from national-level statistics: forest degradation rate, share of low-carbon energy consumption, and carbon footprint in the environmental dimension; adjusted net savings, current account balance, and wealth in equality in the economic dimension; and primary pupil-teacher ratio, fertility rate, and GDP-adjusted child mortality in the social dimension. …”
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Improving the scientific and methodological foundations for determining environmental requirements and criteria for infrastructure projects by Ya. D. Vishnyakov, P. P. Godlevskiy, S. P. Kiseleva

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Fostering National Identity Through Sustainable Heritage Conservation: Ushaiger Village as a Model for Saudi Arabia by Silvia Mazzetto

“…As the Middle East experiences rapid growth due to its oil wealth, there is a pressing need to balance contemporary development with the preservation of its rich cultural heritage. …”
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Household water security is a mediator of household food security in a nationally representative sample of Mexico by Teresa Shamah-Levy, Ignacio Méndez-Gómez-Humarán, Verónica Mundo-Rosas, Alicia Muñoz-Espinosa, Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez, Sera Lewise Young

“…Design: A cross-sectional study with nationally representative data from the National Health and Nutrition Survey-Continuous 2021 (in Spanish, ENSANUT-Continua 2021), collected data from 12 619 households. …”
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Le national à distance. Circulation de normes et réécriture du politique de la Tunisie by Stéphanie Pouessel

“…Ben Ali through participation in the election of 18 representatives to the National Constituent Assembly. Whether students residing abroad, expatriate workers, children of mixed Tunisian couples, political exiles or descendants from prominent political families in exile, such «national but remote» expatriates represent a wealth of potentially mobilisable outside social and political experience available to the practice of politics in Tunisia. …”
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Decomposing social groups differential in stunting among children under five in India using nationally representative sample data by Mriganka Dolui, Sanjit Sarkar

“…The study used 1,93,886 children’s data aged 0–59 months from the recent round of the National Family Health Survey. Descriptive statistics, multivariable logistic regression, F-test, t-test and chi-squared (χ²) test were applied to understand the prevalence, determinants, and associations, respectively. …”
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