The objective of this paper is to analyze the link between geographic location and level human development in Cameroon. To achieve that objective, we use Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) techniques on regional indices (HDI) Cameroon from 2001 2014. Moran test confirms presence a positive significant global spatial autocorrelation indices. Thus, values index are not randomly distributed....

This study aims to determine the factors that influence regional development disparities in Java economic corridor. research data uses secondary taken from several official government publications. The analytical method used this is panel regression estimation method. results of show best model for estimating determinants corridor Fixed Effect Model. explain disparity significantly influenced b...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the progress and regional variations of crop production in Bangladesh. The secondary data were used and collected for the years 1980-81 to 2002-03 from the ‘Statistical Yearbooks of Bangladesh’, ‘Yearbook of Agricultural Statistics’ and population census of different years. The study was conducted during the period from September 2006 to February 2008. A...

While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the past century marked changes have occurred in the country's regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the re-emergence of stark differences between eastern and western Germany after 1970, which have almost disappeared again in the decades after the reunificatio...

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Deeper integration of MERCOSUR aims at reducing the barriers to the international mobility of goods, factors and ideas as well as at promoting effective policy coordination among member countries. Lower barriers make the interactions among customers and suppliers in the integrated area increasingly tight, thus fostering the creation of a common market within the MERCOSUR economic space. The pre...

BACKGROUND In the United States, asthma hospitalization rates are disproportionately high among blacks compared with other racial/ethnic groups and vary by geographic region. These disparities among asthma hospitalizations might be affected by social, environmental, and health-care access factors. OBJECTIVE To determine demographic risk factors for asthma hospitalizations in urban versus rura...