Fair Trade is an international movement which aims to strengthen the livelihoods of producers in the South, and to give the opportunity for conscious customers in the North to buy socially and environmentally friendly products. The conventional trade system is criticised, as well as the efficiency of aid to support developing countries. The core idea of Fair Trade is therefore “Trade not Aid”, ...

Introduction Spreading proven or promising Aboriginal health programs and implementing them in new settings can make cost-effective contributions to a range of Aboriginal Australian development, health and wellbeing, and educational outcomes. Studies have theorized the implementation of Aboriginal health programs but have not focused explicitly on the conditions that influenced their spread. Th...

objective: over the last few decades, bangladesh has made significant progress towards achieving targets for the millennium development goals (mdgs) and women empowerment. this study is aimed at identifying the levels and patterns of women empowerment in relation to health seeking behavior in bangladesh. materials and methods: we conducted a cross-sectional study among 200 rural married women i...

BACKGROUND In order to improve the health of the most vulnerable groups in society, the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) called for multi-sectoral action, which requires research and policy on the multiple and inter-linking factors shaping health outcomes. Most conceptual tools available to researchers tend to focus on singular and specific social determinants of health (S...

This chapter is to explain the China Model characterized with “high economic growth rate concomitant with high frequency of vicious accidents” by constructing a formal model of the local government–firm collusion. Section 2.1 introduces three famous or infamous events about PX (p-Xylene) projects in China and raises two questions relevant to these events. Section 2.2 makes a literature review o...

(1 Structure Engineering Lab, Chongqing Jiaotong University, No.66 Xuefu Road Nan’an District Chongqing China ,China,400074) (2 School of Civil Engineering & Archtecture, Chongqing Jiaotong University, No.66 Xuefu Road Nan’an District Chongqing China ,China,400074) Abstract: This paper based on GIS land suitable assessment principle and method, use supermap to analysis suitability of crop land ...