Unemployment rates differ widely across U.S. metropolitan areas. In 2007, they ranged from 3.1 percent or less among the 25 lowest unemployment metropolitan areas to 6.6 percent or more among the 25 highest unemployment metropolitan areas. Such large differences in metro unemployment rates have held continuously since at least 1990. Moreover, those metro areas that had a relatively high unemplo...

The study investigated the effect of Community-Based Paid Extension (CPE) on vulnerability reduction of smallholder dairy farmers. Randomly sampled 255 farmers were interviewed together with 15 key informants’ interview. Both statistical analysis and thematic approach were employed to achieve triangulation. In about 68 % of cases, CPE reduced vulnerability to a degree experienced as ‘moderate’,...

COVID-19 has harmed lives and businesses locally, regionally, globally, saying worldwide. Before the pandemic, tourism supported Philippines' unstoppable economic growth. The pandemic slowed it. adversely affected tourist industry by lowering Global Domestic Product (GDP) other key macroeconomic microeconomic indicators. In words, tourism's decline macroeconomics microeconomics Covid-19's impac...

Conduct disorder (CD) is characterized by a pattern of behaviour that violates the basic rights of others or age-appropriate norms and rules of society. CD is extremely challenging for parents, teachers, and mental health professionals. The common symptoms of CD are aggression, theft, lying, destruction, vandalism and violation of societal norms and basic rights of others. The cause of CD is be...