Half the world’s population burns wood, coal, dung and other solid fuels to cook food and heat their homes, exposing them to dangerous smoke that kills 1.5 million people a year, the United Nations health agency said recently..
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO):
Women and children in Africa and
World Bank economists estimate that developing countries need annual growth rates of 5 to 6 per cent for at least a decade to begin to move people out of poverty, says the Wall Street Journal.
Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth from 1997 to 2005 averaged just 3.5 per cent
Germans aren't reproducing fast enough to stave off extinction, says Silvana Koch-Mehrin, deputy head of the liberal group in the European Parliament. About a quarter of German women stay childless and the number is rising. Among university graduates the rate is 40 per cent. Moreover, childless men outnumber childless women.
So,
Why is the proportion of women in highly paid executive positions and in the professorial ranks of academic science and engineering so low relative to the proportion of women in the labour force? One answer may be a dislike of competition by some women, says Linda Gorman of the National
Is there, or is there not, a township property market? The answer is: of course there is! Unless you assume that the law of supply and demand has, for some mysterious reason, been suspended when it comes to housing in South Africa (and theres no good reason to
Scientific debate continues regarding the extent to which human activities contribute to global warming and what the potential impact on the environment might be. Importantly, much of the scientific evidence contradicts assertions that substantial global warming is likely to occur soon and that the predicted warming will harm the Earth’s
