Crisis intervention is a practice-oriented set of procedures designed to offer someone experiencing incapacitating stress emotional first-aid. Concepts and ideas found in the sociological tradition are quite applicable to crisis intervention practice. What has been offered are alternatives to the traditional psychological and psychiatric positions. There are similar characteristics between cris...

The Russia–Ukraine crisis has exposed vulnerabilities in US energy security. may import only a small amount of Russian oil but it is tied to via its participation highly globalized supply chains.

Worldwide efforts are being made to increase the use of renewable energy in order to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Africa is blessed with abundant resources of fossil fuels as well as renewable energy resources. Yet the continent, especially sub-Saharan Africa, is afflicted with power crisis. For example, in Nigeria, erratic electricity supplies will persist unless the government div...

75% of the world poor are rural people. Half a billion of them are located in countries both vulnerable to rising food prices and with weak capacity to provide social safety nets. For them, agriculture must be the main instrument to respond to the food crisis and escape poverty. The global food crisis The global food crisis made the headlines for the last year. Governments and international org...

The article provides a description of a solution-focused approach to crisis intervention with adolescents. A description of common developmental and environmental factors that may result in crises for adolescents is presented, followed by an overview of solution-focused therapy. Similarities between solution-focused therapy and strength’s-based crisis intervention and intervention with adolesce...

The study investigates whether corporate board characteristics influence dividends policy in Omani listed firms. It also examines this relationship is determined by the recent global oil crisis. Using a sample of 109 firms Muscat Securities Exchange between 2009 and 2019, we find that payout positively associated with independence, activity, nationality diversity. Though, no evidence found size...

although capital inflows affect positively economies in long-run, it is possible to generate somehow destructive effects if there is no any control on financial markets. this study tries to explore main determinants of large capital inflows episodes to emerging markets. it is also investigated whether the large capital inflows episodes lead to financial crises in forms of sudden stop phenomenon...