1: Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries

This research expands the original analysis of Baker and Costa (1987) including data from Europe and South America with the objective to understand if there are emerging latitudinal patterns. In addition, the threshold proposed by Zimmermann et al. (1997) it is evaluated with the data from tropical zones finding that this is a good predictor.Mainly, recent Debris Flow occurred in South America are analyzed with the aim of identifying the best risk management strategies and their replicability for developing countries, particularly, the cases that have occurred in Colombia and Venezuela in the last 30 years are analyzed in order to compare management strategies and understand which are the most vulnerable areas to this phenomenon.It is concluded that large-scale and multinational projects such as SED ALP are required in South America to better characterize events that have left multiple fatalities (sometimes hundreds of people) and better understand how to manage the risk on densely populated areas.Finally, the use of amateur videos is proposed to characterize these events in nations with limited budgets for projects such as SED ALP, methodology that will be described extensively in later works.

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New Trends in Interaction of Developed and Developing Countries in Innovation Sphere

World Economy and International Relations ◽

10.20542/0131-2227-2012-12-3-14 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 3-14

Author(s):

A. Eroshkin ◽

M. Petrov

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

International Relations ◽

Low Income ◽

Large Scale ◽

Research Capacity ◽

Transnational Corporations ◽

Income Groups ◽

Global Innovation ◽

Low Income Groups ◽

Adaptive Nature

The economic and innovative rise of the developing states stimulated a deep restructuring of the existing system of international relations in science and technology sphere. As the article points, one of the main manifestations of this trend can be seen in the transformation of global innovation strategies of transnational corporations. The world’s largest TNCs, mostly based in the industrial nations, have begun to transfer growing segments and parts of their R&D programs to the developing countries in order to take advantage of their increased research capacity. As a result, the nature of the projects being implemented there by the TNCs is changing. Historically, the TNCs’ local R&D activities were of adaptive nature. Namely, the stress was made on modification of the products and services offered by the TNCS globally to the specifics of local markets. Currently, a growing number of transnational corporations are implementing the large-scale programs in the developing countries aimed at designing new types of products, including those targeted at the low-income groups of consumers that make up the bulk of the population in developing countries.

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Investment in the agricultural sector as a way to solve food security problems in developing countries: the example of investment activity of the US agribusiness

Social'naja politika i social'noe partnerstvo (Social Policy and Social Partnership) ◽

10.33920/pol-01-2106-04 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Elena Stepanovna Ustinovich ◽

Tatyana Petrovna Boldyreva

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Large Scale ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

International Investment ◽

Investment Activity ◽

Agricultural Investment ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Us ◽

The World ◽

Potential Benefits

It is clear to everyone that investment in the agricultural sector in developing countries is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty and hunger in the world. Agricultural investment can generate a wide range of development opportunities. However, these benefi ts cannot be expected to arise automatically. Some forms of large-scale investment pose significant risks to investor states. It should be noted, however, that, despite discussions about the potential benefits and risks of international investment, there is still no evidence of negative actual consequences for the countries receiving investments. This article examines the issues of investment activity in relation to developing countries using the example of US agribusiness entities.

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Aligning Levels of Instruction with Goals and the Needs of Students (ALIGNS): Varied Approaches, Common Principles

10.35489/bsg-rise-ri_2020/022 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yue-Yi Hwa ◽

Michelle Kaffenberger ◽

Jason Silberstein

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Large Scale ◽

After School ◽

Design Features ◽

Children’S Learning ◽

Analysis And Synthesis ◽

Children's Learning

In this Insight Note, we present a set of principles shared by varied approaches that have all succeeded in improving foundational learning in developing countries. These approaches were not explicitly designed with this list of principles in mind; rather, the principles emerged through analysis and synthesis of successful approaches. We call such efforts ALIGNS approaches, which stands for Aligning Levels of Instruction with Goals and the Needs of Students. ALIGNS approaches take many forms, ranging from large-scale policy and curricular reforms to in-school or after-school remedial programmes. In this note, we describe the principles that ALIGNS approaches have in common (Section I); review interdisciplinary evidence on why aligning instruction with children’s learning levels improves learning (Section II); present three cases from across the spectrum of approaches and illustrate how each embodies the ALIGNS principles (Section III); and provide a longer (though not exhaustive) table of programmes that illustrates the range of possible approaches to implementing ALIGNS principles and describes the design features across which they vary (Table 1).

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Co-creating a large-scale adolescent health survey integrated with access to digital health interventions

10.26686/wgtn.12904544 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Roshini Peiris-John ◽

Lovely Dizon ◽

Kylie Sutcliffe ◽

Kristy Kang ◽

Theresa Fleming

Keyword(s):

Adolescent Health ◽

Health Survey ◽

Large Scale ◽

Service Providers ◽

Digital Health ◽

Health Interventions ◽

Future Research ◽

Health Providers ◽

Health And Wellbeing ◽

The Impact

Aim This paper describes how we engaged with adolescents and health providers to integrate access to digital health interventions as part of a large-scale secondary school health and wellbeing survey in New Zealand. Methods We conducted nine participatory, iterative co-design sessions involving 29 adolescents, and two workshops with young people (n = 11), digital and health service providers (n = 11) and researchers (n = 9) to gain insights into end-user perspectives on the concept and how best to integrate digital interventions in to the survey. Results Students’ perceived integrating access to digital health interventions into a large-scale youth health survey as acceptable and highly beneficial. They did not want personalized/normative feedback, but thought that every student should be offered all the help options. Participants identified key principles: assurance of confidentiality, usability, participant choice and control, and language. They highlighted wording as important for ease and comfort, and emphasised the importance of user control. Participants expressed that it would be useful and acceptable for survey respondents to receive information about digital help options addressing a range of health and wellbeing topics. Conclusion The methodology of adolescent-practitioner-researcher collaboration and partnership was central to this research and provided useful insights for the development and delivery of adolescent health surveys integrated with digital help options. The results from the ongoing study will provide useful data on the impact of digital health interventions integrated in large-scale surveys, as a novel methodology. Future research on engaging with adolescents once interventions are delivered will be useful to explore benefits over time.

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Poyang Lake basin: a successful, large-scale integrated basin management model for developing countries

Water Science & Technology ◽

10.2166/wst.2011.413 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 63 (9) ◽

pp. 1899-1905 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Meiqiu Chen ◽

Xiaohua Wei ◽

Hongsheng Huang ◽

Tiangui Lü

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Economic Development ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Large Scale ◽

Poyang Lake ◽

Management Model ◽

Lake Basin ◽

Clear Water ◽

Basin Management ◽

Poyang Lake Basin

Protection of water environment while developing socio-economy is a challenging task for lake regions of many developing countries. Poyang Lake is the largest fresh water lake in China, with its total drainage area of 160,000 km2. In spite of rapid development of socio-economy in Poyang Lake region in the past several decades, water in Poyang Lake is of good quality and is known as the “last pot of clear water” of the Yangtze River Basin in China. In this paper, the reasons of “last pot of clear water” of Poyang Lake were analysed to demonstrate how economic development and environmental protection can be coordinated. There are three main reasons for contributing to this coordinated development: 1) the unique geomorphologic features of Poyang Lake and the short water residence time; 2) the matching of the basin physical boundary with the administrative boundary; and 3) the implementation of “Mountain-River-Lake Program” (MRL), with the ecosystem concept of “mountain as source, river as connection flow, and lake as storage”. In addition, a series of actions have been taken to coordinate development, utilisation, management and protection in the Poyang Lake basin. Our key experiences are: considering all basin components when focusing on lake environment protection is a guiding principle; raising the living standard of people through implementation of various eco-economic projects or models in the basin is the most important strategy; preventing soil and water erosion is critical for protecting water sources; and establishing an effective governance mechanism for basin management is essential. This successful, large-scale basin management model can be extended to any basin or lake regions of developing countries where both environmental protection and economic development are needed and coordinated.

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