scholarly journals On the Extent of Digital Preference in Reporting of Ages in Pakistan

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhat Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Sample Surveys ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Round Numbers

In Pakistan, like many other developing countries of the world, age distributions availabe from the decennial population censuses and sample surveys have shown substantial distortions and irregularities [2; 3; 4; 6, pp.64-75; 9, pp.638-658; 13; 14, pp.64-95]. Some of these distortions could be real and may have been the result of events such as the Bengal famine of 1943 and the post-Independence migration between India and Pakistan. Others could be due to the coverage and response problems encountered in the collection of age data. Among the coverage and response problems, two are of most importance: underenumeration of females and erroneous age-reporting. In countries like Pakistan, which have low literacy rates (19.2 per cent literates according to the 1961 Census of Pakistan), most of the people do not know their correct ages. As a result they tend to report their ages either in round numbers or instead ask the enumerators to write down whatever age they think proper. This pheno¬menon of reporting ages in round numbers is usually called "digital pre¬ference". As a result of this the single-year age distributions show distinct peaks and troughs at ages ending with certain digits.

Covid-19 Vaccines and their Interchangeability Could be Effective in Developing Countries Like India to Generate Stronger Adaptive Immune Response in Large Population

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Saif Ali ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
Adverse Side Effects ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
The People ◽  
Blood Clots ◽  
The World

Vaccine considered as a boon for every individual across the world in the time of pandemic situation. India has developed its own vaccine which shows promising results. Receiving vaccine does not mean that we are completely immune to the disease. Covishield shows some rare but adverse side effects of blood clots in those people having thrombocytopenia. Covaxin has not recorded any such cases as it is of inactivated type. But, the manufacturers of the vaccine have not established the longevity of protection against COVID-19. Unavailability of vaccines in India could pose a serious impact on the lives of the people. Government of India and Medical authorities should take clinical trials and make decision on interchangeability of vaccines as soon as possible.

Reflections on solidarity in global and transnational environment: Issue of social recognition in the context of the potential and limitations of the media

Human Affairs ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Solík ◽  
Juliána Laluhová
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Transnational Organizations ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Informative Role ◽  
The Media

AbstractThe present article deals with issues of social recognition in the global and transnational environment. It deals with the issue of solidarity, a form of recognition that has no adequate parallel beyond nation state borders and manifests itself mainly in the transnational economy. We focus on the articulation of the extraterritorial recognition of social rights-holders at the international and transnational levels of justice. It is clear that conditions in developing countries do not allow the people there to express disapproval in ways that are typical for Western societies. We stress that states should strengthen their influence in global and transnational organizations and equally that the media should improve its informative role and should provide information on what is happening in developing parts of the world.

Covid-19 Vaccines and their Interchangeability Could be Effective in Developing Countries Like India to Generate Stronger Adaptive Immune Response in Large Population

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Saif Ali ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Adaptive Immune Response ◽  
Adverse Side Effects ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
The People ◽  
Blood Clots ◽  
The World

Vaccine considered as a boon for every individual across the world in the time of pandemic situation. India has developed its own vaccine which shows promising results. Receiving vaccine does not mean that we are completely immune to the disease. Covishield shows some rare but adverse side effects of blood clots in those people having thrombocytopenia. Covaxin has not recorded any such cases as it is of inactivated type. But, the manufacturers of the vaccine have not established the longevity of protection against COVID-19. Unavailability of vaccines in India could pose a serious impact on the lives of the people. Government of India and Medical authorities should take clinical trials and make decision on interchangeability of vaccines as soon as possible.

scholarly journals A Proposed Sketch of a Distance Education Model for the Enrichment of Adult Literacy in Pakistan

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Khalid Saleem ◽  
Mumtaz Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Model

Various efforts have been made to overcome the problem of illiteracy throughout the world, particularly in the developing countries. But, none of these had valuable results. Therefore, in most of the developing countries like Pakistan, governments are concerned about handling the literacy problem effectively. The present paper was conducted in view of the poor literacy condition in Pakistan.it focused upon the analysis of existing literacy situation in Pakistan as well as finding out workable suggestions for overcoming the literacy problem. The study revealed that there was no use of broadcast media or the motivational techniques to attract the illiterate people to the literacy centers. Above all there was no consistency in the literacy programmes due to political factors. The main objectives of the study included to analyze the past literacy programmes in Pakistan and to create a distance education literacy model for Pakistan. The modern way for imparting literacy should be used rather than following the conventional methods. For this purpose a distance education model for enhancing literacy is proposed to be used in Pakistan. This is a theoretical model workable in the low literacy areas with suitable physical provisions.

An Appreciation of the Contribution of NIR to Agriculture

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme D. Batten
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Nir Spectroscopy ◽  
Fibre Production ◽  
World Population ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Natural Resource Base

As the 20th century ends the world population approaches 6 billion people and is expected to increase to 8 billion by the year 2020. It is the responsibility of agriculture to provide food and fibre for all these people. Application of existing technology and innovation of new technology will be essential if agricultural scientists are to achieve this enormous task. In the 40 years to the present NIR spectroscopy has made major contributions to food and fibre production, and to the assessment of food quality and potential end-uses of produce. As NIR scientists we must strive to make contributions which help agriculture meet the challenge to feed and clothe the people of the world. The major challenge for NIR scientists in agriculture is maintaining sustainable yields, whilst reducing wastage and damage to the natural resource base. To have the greatest impact NIR-based technologies must be made available in developing countries at affordable prices. These challenges will involve developing and promoting options that are acceptable politically, sociologically and economically. NIR technology will provide the greatest benefits to feeding and clothing the world's people if there is closer interaction with plant breeders, agronomists, environmentalists, food processors and marketers.

The Philippine Archipelago

Worldview ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
Raul S. Manglapus
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Nineteen Fifties ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The People ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World

“Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!” said the sideshow barker to iiis customers. “Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!” said the economist to the developing countries. If you don't hurry there will be disaster, echoed the President of the World Bank. Only military governments are capable of stability and order, observed the Rockefeller Report on Latin America.You must move forward. Democracy is too slow. Human rights can wait.It was a stirring message, and it reached the executive mansions of Southeast Asia. In the nineteen fifties and sixties, whenever the head of a government there tired of coping with legal opposition, began to fear the people, and decided to run things permanently on his own he engaged in the amusing practice of issuing a proclamation blaming all his country's ills on “Western-style democracy”—and immediately instituted Western-style repression. He imprisoned the opposition, muzzled the press, and silenced the population by putting the fear of predawn raids in their hearts, devices all so terribly Western and so terribly effective.

scholarly journals Successful Parenting in the Contemporary Era of Technology in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
Stephen John ◽  
Dr. Muhammad Ali Shaikh ◽  
Nadia Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Literacy Rate ◽  
Small Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Technical Terms

Pakistan is one of the developing countries having low literacy rate in contemporary era of technology (Male: 72.5% and Female:51.8% but varies regionally), holding 180th position in the list of 221 big or small countries of the world. Media (social/electronic/print) has replaced parents, therefore, children learn and follow, as they find/listen/watch on it, parents have no more control over their children and consequently their teaching is no more effective. But in the present era of challenges/difficulties where parents find themselves hopeless/helpless, we find some parents have performed or are very successfully performing their duties. The objective of this research study was to discover the techniques used or parenting style followed by those successful parents. For the purpose, through snowball sampling procedure hundred (100) parents were selected. A questionnaire consisting close-ended questions was distributed among the participants and the purpose was to keep selected respondents on required track or provide them technical terms used in the world or to have fixed responses, while open-ended questions were posed to explore the techniques or parenting style adopted by them. The quantitative responses were analyzed using SPSS, while quantitative responses were sorted, labelled and quantified. The results show that parenting style or technique of using yardstick as per nature of a child is the reason behind successful parenting in the parent era.

scholarly journals COVID-19: Socio-Economic Implications for Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol V (III) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Ijaz Khalid ◽  
Aneela Akbar ◽  
Hina Malik
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
The Public ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The People ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

The paper analyzes the global pandemic of COVID-19, its evolution, development and its implications on the world and specifically Pakistan. Sparkly, it emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, was restricted to the city for less than a month, but currently, the virus has engrossed the whole world. This part of the study investigates both developed and developing countries responses to deal with the dominant global issue. The study focused on Pakistan's response to COVID-19 being damaged by War on Terror and political instability. The paper concluded that Pakistan very smartly responded to the pandemic by applying smart lockdown within its limited resources to contain the virus and maintained a balance between saving lives and saving livelihoods. This piece of paper also finds that, like in other developing countries, the pandemic also has severe Socio-economic implications as the economically of the business went down, investment came to its lowest level that heavily marked Pakistan economically unsound. Socially speaking, the virus created fear and totally break down the public gathering that made the people psychologically unhealthy.

An Approach to Solving World Food Problems

1975 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 423-427
Author(s):  
W. F. WEDIN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Food ◽  
State University ◽  
Iowa State University ◽  
The People ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The World

Approaches to solving food problems have often been too specific, both here at home and abroad. In developing countries, chronic food problems have often been attacked with a technology, the adoption-diffusion of which, if nonappropriate to mores and customs of the people, has in the long-run been counter-productive. Through the World Food Institute at Iowa State University, we propose to identify problems, analyze them, bring competencies to bear on solving them, provide a continuing feed-in of educated, competent people geared to a problem-solving, interdisciplinary attack, and study the interrelationships to Iowa and the United States. We propose a continuing thrust from our University utilizing pertinent components of the land-grant mission which permitted problems to be solved in Iowa. Through this outward thrust in the broader, international scale, we hope to improve the nutrition and hope for hunger avoidance of humans elsewhere, and simultaneously thereby to increase our own understanding. We look to the peaceful interchange of food-related knowledge which, in the ultimate, knows neither borders nor political leanings.

Searching for new Sources of growth. Are the Developing Countries Catching up with the Developed ones?

2015 ◽  
pp. 30-53
Author(s):  
V. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
The West ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Divergence ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Relative Standing

This paper examines the trajectory of growth in the Global South. Before the 1500s all countries were roughly at the same level of development, but from the 1500s Western countries started to grow faster than the rest of the world and PPP GDP per capita by 1950 in the US, the richest Western nation, was nearly 5 times higher than the world average and 2 times higher than in Western Europe. Since 1950 this ratio stabilized - not only Western Europe and Japan improved their relative standing in per capita income versus the US, but also East Asia, South Asia and some developing countries in other regions started to bridge the gap with the West. After nearly half of the millennium of growing economic divergence, the world seems to have entered the era of convergence. The factors behind these trends are analyzed; implications for the future and possible scenarios are considered.

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