Data pooling efforts in Africa and Latin America

Ethnobotany and biodiversity conservation-holistic approaches from Eastern Africa and Latin America

Scientists widely agree that species extinction has heavily accelerated in the last decades. A grave problem for the conservation of diversity is the still very fragmentary knowledge of the ecology of most species. Attempts of sustainable management and conservation must integrate local communities and their traditional knowledge. Management decisions need to include the high importance of natu...

Ethnobotany and biodiversity conservation-holistic approaches from Eastern Africa and Latin America

Scientists widely agree that species extinction has heavily accelerated in the last decades. A grave problem for the conservation of diversity is the still very fragmentary knowledge of the ecology of most species. Attempts of sustainable management and conservation must integrate local communities and their traditional knowledge. Management decisions need to include the high importance of natu...

Does Africa grow slower than Asia and Latin America?

In this paper we address the question whether countries on the African continent have lower average growth rates in real GDP per capita than countries in Asia and Latin America. In contrast to previous studies, we do not aggregate the data, nor do we a priori assign countries to clusters. Instead, we put forward a so-called latent class panel time series model, which allows a data-based classif...

Open Government Data in Latin America

The information produced and held by governments belongs to the public. Members of society should use this information to monitor, assess and assist the decision-making process. To enable citizens to contribute to the policy-making process, and thereby effectively collaborate with government and, they need to have access to relevant information. Peoples access to government information is a pow...

Factors of Environmental Sustainability for Africa, Asia, and Latin America