The World Health Organization (WHO) recently projected that in 2010, cancer would overtake ischemic heart disease as the leading cause of death in the world. Between 2005 – when some 7.6 million people died from cancer, accounting for 13% of global deaths – and 2015, it is anticipated that 84 million people will die of cancer. In 2008, approximately 72% of cancer deaths occurred in low and midd...

Despite the increasing importance of the Internet, there is little work that addresses the degree to which the models and theories of Internet diffusion in developed countries can be applied to Internet diffusion in developing countries. This paper presents the first attempt to address this issue through theory driven modeling of Internet diffusion. Consistent with previous research, our findin...

I ALL THE MAJOR CHALLENGES CURRENTLY FACING the world, whether it is climate change, terrorism and conflict or urbanization and demographic shifts, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty. To reduce poverty sustainably, however, reducing household vulnerability and increasing household resilience are also necessary. This aspect is often overlooked by policy-makers. For instan...

The rapid urbanization in many developing countries over the past half century seems to have been accompanied by excessively high levels of concentration of the urban population in very large cities. Some degree of urban concentration may be desirable initially to reduce interand intraregional infrastructure expenditures. But in a mature system of cities, economic activity is more spread out. S...

Good clinical trials can be carried out in the developing countries but ethical issues concerning the trials are frequently brought up for international debate. The concern has its own merit but can be amended if investigators (local and international) pay serious attention to these criticisms and work out the way that will most benefit the trial participants. Although scientific progress is im...

The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with preferences or constraints affect...

there has been extensive debates about the similarities and differences between urban planning educations in developed versus developing counties. some believe that increasing interdependence among nations, an ever greater need for cross – cultural cooperation,  is required to close the gap in skill and knowledge between developed and developing countries and shrinking international borders mak...