As a result of armed civil conflict in South Sudan that started in mid-December of 2013, an estimated 1.1 million persons were internally displaced, and approximately 400,000 refugees fled South Sudan to neighboring countries (primarily to Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, and Kenya). Refugees from South Sudan arriving in Ethiopia are sheltered in three refugee camps located in Gambella region: Leitchuo...

In 2008, for the first time, the world’s urban population surpassed the rural population, crossing the threshold of 50%, according to the most coherent and most comparative estimates at international level (United Nations: Population Division, 2008). Indeed, the major obstacle to overcome in the study of the world urbanization resides in differences in the definition of urban agglomerations and...

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This paper has peculiarity. It has been drafted as a particular response to a specific calling: the convening by the United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development of an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on “Intergenerational Solidarity: Strengthening Economic and Social Ties”. Its content tries to be responsive to this particular calling and it has not been drafted according to common rule...

We examined differences in health indicators and associated factors across countries according to the proportion of the population who are Muslim. Of 190 UN countries, 48 were classified as Muslim-majority countries (MMC) and 142 as non-MMC. Data on 41 potential determinants of health were obtained from 10 different data sources, and 4 primary outcome measures (male and female life expectancy, ...

Environmental accounting is a recent phenomenon in the modern jurisprudence. It may reflect the corporate governance mechanisms in line with the natural resources and environmental sound management and administration systems in any country of the world. It may be a corporate focused on the improving of the environmental quality. But it is often identified that it is ignored due to some reasons ...

Methods Incidence data on lung cancer for the period 1988-2008 were obtained from the Croatian National Cancer Registry, while mortality data were obtained from the World Health Organization mortality database. Population estimates for Croatia were obtained from the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations. We also calculated and analyzed age-st...

R.K. SAXENA Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Jai Narain Vyas University Jodhpur 342001, INDIA A.M. MATHAI Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, 805 Sherbooke Street West, Montreal, CANADA H3A 2K6 H.J. HAUBOLD Office for Outer Space Affairs, United Nations, P.O. Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, AUSTRIA Abstract. The subject of this paper is to derive the solution of genera...