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The list has been cited by journalists and academics in making broad comparative points about countries or regions. [2] [3] The report uses 12 factors to determine the rating for each nation, including security threats, economic implosion, human rights violations and refugee flows.
Middle East & North Africa Low income N/A Turks and Caicos Islands: Latin America & Caribbean High income N/A Chad: Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 42.3% 2018 Togo: Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 45.5% 2018 Thailand: East Asia & Pacific Upper middle income 6.3% 2021 Tajikistan: Europe & Central Asia Lower middle income 22.5% 2022
Research has identified a correlation between linear-active cultures (i.e. following a daily schedule with a single task at a time) [4] with high-trust societies, and multi-active cultures (flexible schedules with many tasks at once, often in an unplanned order) with low-trust cultures.
Asia And Africa Resettled. Nearly all of the estimated 3.4 million people who have been physically or economically displaced by World Bank-backed projects between 2004 and 2013 live in Africa or one of three Asian countries: Vietnam, China and India. Read about the data and our methodology here.
Countries fall into four broad categories based on their HDI: very high, high, medium, and low human development. Currently, Seychelles is the only African country that falls into the very high human development category. Somalia has the lowest HDI in both Africa and the world according to the list.
GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. refugee agency voiced concern at the "rapidly deteriorating" situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, saying the war had left around 350,000 ...
Countries appearing with a deeper shade of green are ranked as more peaceful, countries appearing more red are ranked as more violent. [ 1 ] Global Peace Index ( GPI ) is a report produced by the Australia-based NGO Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness . [ 2 ]
Other stories published today by HuffPost and ICIJ include an overview detailing the reporting team’s key findings, a look at mass evictions in Ethiopia tied to a World Bank project and an examination of a Peruvian gold mine backed by the bank’s private-sector investment arm. ICIJ and its partners will publish more stories in the coming ...