Insights into Fertility Variability in Africa: A Path Toward Achieving the SDGs by Nelson Doe Dzivor, Alice C. Mensah, Edith Mensah, Moses Odamtten

“…Conclusion: The insight provided by this study is a necessary tool for policymakers to design demographic interventions that align with regional realities and contribute to progress toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…”
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DETERMINANTS FOR TOURISM AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION by SUSANA LIMA, CELESTE EUSÉBIO, MARIA DO ROSÁRIO PARTIDÁRIO

“…This was established as a major priority by donors, governments, NGOs, national and international tourism bodies, bilateral and multilateral institutions, like the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The purpose of this paper is to identify the main determinants that should be integrated in the international cooperation for development programs that use tourism as a tool for poverty alleviation. …”
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South Africa, Sweden, and Good International Citizenship by Suzanne Graham

“…A good international citizen (state) must also be a proponent of multilateral cooperation, usually manifesting in global platforms such as the United Nations (UN). Scholars refer to middle power states being ideally situated in the power rankings of international affairs, respected by major and minor powers, to become custodians of emerging international norms and to pave a pathway forward for the community of states. …”
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The roles of universities in virtual intellectual migration via evolving technologies and STEM by Beverly Lindsay

“…This article responds to the queries and concludes by articulating the importance of virtual intellectual migration as can be observed by two foremost statesmen and diplomats—United Nations Secretary‐General Kofi Annan and American Senator J. …”
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The contributions of foreign aid and natural resource wealth to democratic institutions: Evidence from over 40 years of sub-Sahara Africa's history by Alex O. Acheampong, John Taden

“…Using five different democracy indices, six different foreign aid variables and six different natural resource rent variables, our endogeneity-corrected results establish the following conclusions: (i) all the democracy indices respond positively and significantly to multilateral foreign aid, total development assistance committee (DAC) aid and bilateral aid from Australia, the USA, the United Nations, and the European Union (ii) the political resource curse, rentier and repression theories are valid for rent from mineral, gas and oil resources (iii) the democracy indices respond positively and significantly to rent from coal and forest resources (iv) the effect of foreign aid on the democracy indices is contingent on natural resource wealth (v) these findings are robust to an alternative econometric estimation technique and specifications. …”
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Some Qualitative Analyses of Neutral Functional Delay Differential Equation with Generalized Caputo Operator by Abdellatif Boutiara, Mohammed M. Matar, Mohammed K. A. Kaabar, Francisco Martínez, Sina Etemad, Shahram Rezapour

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Specifics and evaluation of the organisational and economic mechanism of industrial products regulated purchases in terms of ensuring their environmental safety by A. E. Gukasova

“…The research relevance is due to the tasks set in the Concept of Sustainable Development of the United Nations. One of the state mechanisms through which the state can influence both producers and buyers to develop socially responsible behavior, which would contribute to the greening of industrial products, could be the organisational and economic mechanism of regulated procurement. …”
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A Three-Stage Anomaly Detection Framework for Traffic Videos by Junzhou Chen, Jiancheng Wang, Jiajun Pu, Ronghui Zhang

“…As reported by the United Nations in 2021, road accidents cause 1.3 million deaths and 50 million injuries worldwide each year. …”
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Feminist spiritualities, gender equality and sustainable development: The possibilities of a countermovement by N. Swanepoel, T. van Wyk

“…This article explores the possibilities of feminist spirituality as countermovement that contributes to the realisation of gender equality, in the way that gender equality finds expression in the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. It is situated within a growing field of work that explores how faith communities’ religion and spirituality contribute to their being agents of sustainable development, and within the contextual urgency of the sustainable development agenda. …”
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Life Quality: More than Just a Concept. by Hilda Robaina Becerra, Ana Teresa Fernández Vidal, Alicia del Rosario Ramírez Pérez

“…The achievements of social policies applied in Cuba, allow guaranteeing the accomplishment with all the life quality rights recognized in the legal instruments of United Nations. The specialized consultation for family planning and reproductive risk in the Area III Polyclinic of Cienfuegos provided an opportunity to develop the assessment of life quality in women whose records accounted for preconception risk. …”
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İNSANİ KALKINMA ENDEKSİ VE TÜRKİYE İÇİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ by Şevket Tüylüoğlu, Burak Karalı

“…Bu bağlamda Birleşmiş Milletler Kalkınma Programı (United Nations Development Programme-UNDP) tarafından geliştirilen İnsani Kalkınma Endeksi (Human Development Index-HDI); sağlık, bilgi ve gelir düzeyi şeklinde üç temel unsura dayalı olarak hesaplanmaktadır. …”
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Comparative analysis of higher education on the example of certain countries of the European and Asia-Pacific regions by S. E. Titor, S. V. Cherkasova

“…Its structure is described, with consideration to characteristics of each state, the place of these countries in the leading world rankings on the level of education is given (Education Index 2022 of the United Nations Development Programme and Human Development Report 2021–2022). …”
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Fulfilment of fertility desires for the attainment of Global Sustainable Development Goals by James Kiarie, Pascale Allotey, Rita Kabra, Gitau Mburu, Nancy Kidula, Asantesana Kamuyango, Nandita Thatte

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Advances in public policies and epidemiological surveillance related to the human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS in Ecuador by Joshua Daniel Govea Intriago, Patricio Damián Mayorga Medina, Francisco Xavier Poveda Paredes

“…Some projects have been implemented aimed at fulfilling what was agreed in the United Nations declaration, and within the framework of the national development plan. …”
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MIGRATION CRISIS AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR TURKEY by N. M. Mikheeva

“…Some progress in the negotiation process between the communities of Cyprus EU starts to participate in the negotiations on Cyprus, together with the United Nations. Creates good conditions for the settlement of the conflict. …”
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Children's experiences of play in digital spaces: A scoping review. by Fiona M Loudoun, Bryan Boyle, Maria Larsson-Lund

“…The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has substantiated play for play's sake, thus focusing on the doing or being of play rather than any potentially desired outcomes. …”
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The Role of UNCLOS 1982 in Maintaining and Protecting the International Marine Environment by Anita Dian Eka Kusuma, Akbar Kurnia Putra

“…Japan, a major producer of nuclear waste, faces international pressure to manage this waste according to global legal and environmental standards. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) provides a framework for managing marine resources, including waste disposal, but ambiguities in the law complicate the definition of state responsibilities. …”
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Reconceptualizing Corruption as an International Crime: A Review of International Law by Satria Unggul Wicaksana Prakasa

“…The findings suggest that corruption crimes impacting security, human rights, and environmental integrity, particularly in contexts where states are unable or unwilling to act, should be classified as international crimes, necessitating a global commitment to amend the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) accordingly. …”
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Sustainable Development, Digital Democracy, and Open Government: Co-Creation Synergy in Ukraine by Khutkyy Dmytro, Matveieva Olga

“…The article examines the interplay between the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), digital democracy, and open government in Ukraine in 2018 and 2020. …”
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The General Assembly Resolution ˝Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts˝ of 2022: Where We Stand 30 Years after by Vesna Barić Punda, Irena Nišević

“…After the adoption of the General Assembly Resolution ˝Protection of the Environment in Times of Armed Conflict˝ in 1992, this United Nations organ adopted another resolution on the subject matter in 2022 entitled ˝Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts˝. …”
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