While significant progress has been made towards achieving the MDGs, critical environmental, social, economic and institutional challenges are still to be overcome. Two crucial connected challenges are: i) the persistently high levels of hunger and malnutrition (870 million people in 2010‐ 2012 [FAO, 2012a]) and– particularly in the rural areas of many developing countries – only slowly declini...

Melanoma is one of the most aggressive malignant skin neoplasms worldwide with more than 20% of world melanoma seen in black Africa and Asia. Late presentation due to ignorance, poverty, and lack of adequate health facility in Nigeria is always the norms. We present this case report because of precision in diagnosis, using fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) to reemphasize that the technique...

Hunger and malnutrition are intricately bound up with ill-health, poverty and underdevelopment. Freedom from hunger and malnutrition is a basic human right, and their alleviation is a prerequisite for human and national development. Dietary deficiencies of vitamins and minerals are still responsible for massive mortality and morbidity in developing countries, especially amongst pregnant women a...

Many developing countries have managed to increase their participation in the global economy through development of international tourism. Tourism development is increasingly viewed as an important tool in promoting economic growth, alleviating poverty, and advancing food security. This briefing note aims to review the relationship between tourism and poverty reduction, and to explore how inves...

Poverty remains a substantial threat in rural areas of many developing countries, and solving this problem requires an in-depth understanding the income generating capacity that determines poverty. This paper examines impact agricultural commercialisation on capability households to accumulate productively use assets reduce structural multidimensional A longitudinal dataset around 2000 with tot...

In this chapter, I use critical theory to explore the underlying philosophy of the infostate framework for measuring information societies in developing countries. I find the hallmarks of instrumental reason when examining the framework and argue that this risks giving policymakers a false sense of clarity when shaping poverty reduction policies in developing countries. Given the influence of t...

In the last decades growing evidence of a worldwide increase in atopic diseases and sensitisation to common allergenswas provided. Prevalence of asthma is increasing most rapidly among children, especially where urbanisation takes place. Several risk factors that we can observe in developing countries or in inner-city communities of the developed countries contribute to asthma morbidity and mor...