The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total worth of all goods and services produced within a country's borders in given year. background study includes importance GDP as an important economic indicator reflecting overall performance growth country. As Somalia faces unique challenges, this research aims to provide insight into its dynamics, trends, potential future developments. In order crea...

This study explores the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI), renewable energy, gross capital formation, population growth, domestic product (GDP), and square GDP on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Somalia between 1990 2019. To investigate short- long-run elasticity environmental degradation other variables, autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is employed. In Somalia, coefficient...

OBJECTIVES To measure the receptive risks of malaria in Somalia and compare decisions on intervention scale-up based on this map and the more widely used contemporary risk maps. DESIGN Cross-sectional community Plasmodium falciparum parasite rate (PfPR) data for the period 2007-2010 corrected to a standard age range of 2 to <10 years (PfPR(2-10)) and used within a Bayesian space-time geostati...

BACKGROUND After the last case of type 1 wild poliovirus (WPV1) was reported in 2007, Somalia experienced another outbreak of WPV1 (189 cases) in 2013. METHODS We conducted a retrospective, matched case-control study to evaluate the vaccine effectiveness (VE) of oral polio vaccine (OPV). We retrieved information from the Somalia Surveillance Database. A case was defined as any case of acute f...

Nomads and pastoralists represent around 30% of the population of North East zone of Somalia (Puntland) and have very limited access to basic health including immunization. During the 2013-2014 polio outbreak in Somalia, an increase number of polio cases notified health services among these underserved communities highlighted the urgent need to devise innovative strategies to reach them. Harnes...

1Ministry of Health and Labour, Hargeisa, Somalia. ABSTRACT An intervention study was conducted on the introduction of the larvivorous fish Oreochromis spilurus spilurus as a method of malaria vector control in Kalabeydh village, northern Somalia. This species is resistant to chlorine in water up to a concentration of 1.0 mg/L. Fish were introduced into 25 berkit (reservoirs). After 1 month the...

This paper studies state failure and governance in two conflict-states in the Middle East: Iraq and Somalia. Iraq is currently undergoing a social experiment under which a new form of government is being constructed after the passage of autocratic rule. The government envisaged is a consociational democratic state designed a priori as a political mechanism for the redistribution of resources, m...

This report offers a review of the policies and players that impact media and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policies and practices in Somalia. The research, supplemented with interviews with senior policy advisors on ICTs, civil society organizations, journalists’ unions, and the private sector, suggests that the Somali Federal Government faces significant hurdles in constructi...