Poor Countries Research Articles

Research on the Supply-side Structure Reform of China's Company Law

At present and in the future, China's economic development faces some problems about supply and demand, but the main contradiction lies in the supply side. Facts have proved that China's problem is that the supply cannot change with the changing demand, that is, the lack of effective supply capacity leads to a large number of "demand spillovers", leading to a serious outflow of consumption capacity. To solve these structural problems, people must make efforts from the supply side and find the right position in the world supply market. In other words, Chinese government must take improving the supply side structure as the main direction of attack, and realize the leap from the low level of supply and demand balance to the high level of supply and demand balance. Among them, the company system plays a vital role in the company's survival and supply-side structural reform. In 1993, after 30 years of double-digit growth, South Korea ranked among the "four Asian dragons" from the poorest country in the world, and its per capita income rose from 82 to 8449 dollars. In this process, all countries in the world clearly believe that the supply-side structural reform of the Jin Yongsan government is indispensable. At present, some problems faced by Chinese companies are also unprecedented. The reform of China's company law is not simply a change of departmental rules, but more importantly, it can improve the competitiveness of the country and social reform and development through the revision of the company law. In this case, this paper uses the methods of comparative study and case analysis to analyze the common problems of the company system, in order to deepen the supply-side reform of the system and promote the comprehensive modernization of the company law.

Quantifying expenditure hierarchies and the expansion of global consumption diversity

Economic growth stimulates fundamental changes in consumption patterns as consumers who get rich tend to spread their spending more evenly across a wider variety of goods and services. Comparing cross sectional spending patterns across rich and poor countries, we investigate how this diversification process enables more niche patterns of spending to emerge across the global population of consumers. We use entropy measures to quantify the dispersion of household spending across goods and study how it unfolds as GDP rises. Using a gravity model to study international differences in the relative order of income elasticities, i.e. expenditure hierarchies, we show how this diversification process on the national level is correlated with cultural norms, GDP and income inequality. We find that national expenditure hierarchies are relatively similar across countries among necessities, while they are increasingly unique among luxuries. We further consider how rising affluence tends to generate more niche consumption patterns by examining how rising income is positively correlated with demand heterogeneity and income inequality is negatively correlated with market depth.

Global overview of early public policies towards the Covid-19 pandemic: Specific case review of Lebanon

The novel coronavirus and its corresponding infection, the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), increased to more than 176 million cases with up to 3.8 million deaths registered until June 2021. The pandemic led to a global socio-economic crisis, affecting both rich, and poor countries. The governments' responses towards this outbreak were critical in protecting the communities from the virus' effects. Citizens had to abide by the authorities' regulations facing its fast spread. Our paper aims to cite multiple public policies taken from different countries, with special attention being given to Lebanon, a Middle Eastern country, to emphasize on the importance of the decision-making process in a challenging political, and socio-economic environment. It discusses further the Lebanese authorities’ performance in the health and administrative sectors, despite a few stubborn loopholes in the crisis management, a collapsing economy, and incessant socio-political conflicts amidst multi-regional influences. A better planned response strategy is advised to face upcoming post-Covid challenges in the near future.

WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT, CADRE TRAINING, AND MASS EXAMINATION FOR CERVICAL CANCER DETECTION

Cervical cancer is the most common type of cancer in women and the main reason people die from cancer in poor countries like Indonesia. Cervical cancer is a type of cancer that is caused by the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and can be dangerous to a woman's health. Cervical cancer has the second most cases and deaths in the world, after breast cancer. The East Java Provincial Health Office's Health Profile for 2021 says that Trenggalek is an area with a low rate of cervical cancer screening. So, we started doing community service projects to make more people aware of cervical cancer. This community event began with drinks for the staff and a talk about cervical cancer and how to find it early. Some of the things that are done are health education about cervical cancer and ways to find it early. During this practice, women of reproductive age (WUS) were also asked to take part in a free Visual Acetate Acid (VIA) test done by the team. The next event was a free VIA test, which 21 WUS students took part in. The results of the VIA test showed that 20 people had bad VIA and one person had good VIA. The team then sent people who had a good VIA to get more care. Women, cadres, and other important people in the community can learn more about cervical cancer through community service. However, community service in other areas is needed in the coming year so that this issue can be brought up and the community can benefit from it, especially since cervical cancer is on the rise. People also think that this would change how women with cervical cancer get their treatments and improve their quality of life.

ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING MATERNAL MORTALITY IN THE CASE OF POOR COUNTRIES

This article presents an observational study aimed at understanding the complex set of factors influencing maternal mortality, the prevalence of anemia among non-pregnant women, and road traffic injuries among HIV-infected women in poor countries. Using panel data from 10 poor countries as sample observations from around the world, econometric models were developed to explore the complex relationships between maternal mortality and important health indicators.

The Experiences of Nutrition Fulfillment in Mothers with a History of Anemia During Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study

Background: Anemia during pregnancy is one of the most common disorders, especially in middle and poor economic countries, including Indonesia. Anemia is closely related to nutrition consumed during pregnancy. Objectives: This research aimed to explore the experience of nutritional fulfillment in pregnant women with a history of anemia during pregnancy. Methods: The research used a qualitative design with a phenomenological approach. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling with inclusion criteria, so a sample of 20 pregnant women with a history of anemia was obtained. Data collection was carried out through semi-structured in-depth interviews. Data analysis used the Colaizzi method. Results: The results showed five themes: lack of intake and diversification of food types during pregnancy; food processing with hot temperatures and dry intensity reduces the nutritional value of food; choosing the type of food without knowing its benefits can affect health; several types of vegetables, fruit, and protein are dietary restrictions during pregnancy; and non-compliance in consuming Fe tablets regularly. Fulfillment of nutritional status is essential for pregnant women and must be fulfilled thoroughly so that anemia does not occur during pregnancy. Conclusions: Mothers' lack of knowledge and inability to care for themselves during pregnancy. Lack of information, starting from the selection, processing, and consumption of food during pregnancy, can increase the mother's health risks, including anemia. Pregnant women must improve prenatal care to get education about fulfilling nutrition during pregnancy.

Brain Tumor Classification using Transfer Learning

Brain tumors are one of the more severe medical conditions that can affect both children and adults. Brain tumors make up between 85 and 90 percent of all primary Central Nervous System (CNS) malignancies. Each year, brain tumors are found in about 11,700 persons. The 5-year survival rate is around 34% for males and 36% for female patients with malignant brain or CNS tumors. Brain tumors can be classified as benign, malignant, pituitary, and other forms. Appropriate treatment, meticulous planning, and exact diagnostics must be used to prolong patient lives. The most reliable way for detecting brain cancer is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The images are examined by the radiologist. As brain tumors are complex the MRI serve as guide to diagnose the seriousness of the disease. Since the placement and size of the brain tumor seems incredibly abnormal for persons affected by the disease it becomes difficult to properly comprehend the nature of the tumor. For MRI analysis, a qualified neurosurgeon is also necessary. Compiling the results of an MRI can be extremely difficult and time-consuming because there are typically not enough qualified medical professionals and individuals who are knowledgeable about malignancy in poor countries. Thus, this issue can be resolved by an automated cloud-based solution. In the proposed model, The Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) is used for the classification of the brain tumor dataset with an accuracy of 99%.

The Return of Debt Crisis in Developing Countries: Shifting or Maintaining Dominant Development Paradigms?

ABSTRACTIn the aftermath of the COVID‐19 pandemic, much of the global South has been immersed in a debt crisis of a breadth and depth not seen since the early 1980s. The debt distress was apparent before the pandemic and the situation over the last decade is best described as a slow burn, which the pandemic and war in Ukraine ignited in often sudden and dramatic ways. However, what remains a surprising feature of the ongoing situation has been the avoidance so far of a generalized domino effect, unlike previous systemic Southern debt crises. This fact does not diminish the severity of the consequences given that the containment of crisis has been achieved by regular and persistent applications of austerity and adjustment programmes with deleterious impacts on development in poor countries. This article frames the Debate by exploring these aspects of the current Southern debt crisis, focusing on its deeper structural drivers versus the role of more proximate triggers of the crisis; the similarities or differences with past crises of recent decades; and the degree to which anything has in fact changed in orthodox responses to crisis management. A theme that emerges from the more heterodox scholarship profiled by this Debate is that the current crisis and its responses are maintaining the dominant development paradigm of the last 40 years, rather than eliciting a shift away from it. There is a continued adherence to neoliberal ideology in macroeconomic policy making and to the punitive subordination of developing countries in debt distress, through crisis responses, to the Northern and especially US‐centred international financial system. Ignoring the very strong similarities to the past, especially the 1982 debt crisis that ushered in this paradigm, risks repeating the lost decades to development that followed.

'Benevolent' patent extensions could raise billions for R&D in poorer countries.

'Benevolent' patent extensions could raise billions for R&D in poorer countries.

Fear, Sufferation, and Mythology in the Metamorphosis of Ivan to Rhygin

Abstract: Mythologies have long reigned supreme in the Jamaican psyche. While there are supernatural stories such as Rivah Mumma, of note to Jamaica's history of resistance to colonialism and enslavement are antiestablishment figures like Nanny and Tacky, then colonial outlaws. More and more popular imagination is consumed by heroics of Hollywood figures such as the legendary outlaws in westerns. Utilizing Cultural Studies textual analysis, this paper explores the transformation of Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin to Rhygin, from poor country boy to working-class urban dweller to desperate outlaw dying on his own terms. The music and language used in The Harder They Come (dir. Perry Henzell, 1972, Jamaica) will be analyzed to explore this transformation. This paper takes the view that mythmaking was the response to sufferation with fear straddling both sides of the divide—that of the wealthy and powerful whose power the poor fear; and the poor who collectively or individually and legally or illegally rise up against the system that would seek to keep them oppressed.

Worth Your Weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesity in Low-Income Countries

I study the economic value of obesity—a status symbol in poor countries associated with raised health risks. Randomizing decision-makers in Kampala, Uganda to view weight-manipulated portraits, I find that obesity is perceived as a reliable signal of wealth but not of beauty or health. Thus, leveraging a real-stakes experiment involving professional loan officers, I show that being obese facilitates access to credit. The large obesity premium, comparable to raising borrower self-reported earnings by over 60 percent, is driven by asymmetric information and drops significantly when providing more financial information. Notably, obesity benefits and wealth-signaling value are commonly overestimated, suggesting market distortions. (JEL D82, G21, G51, I12, O16, Z13)

Toward sustainable landscape irrigation using a novel design for water collection systems that use atmospheric moisture condensation

Abstract This paper introduces a novel design that uses high-emissivity materials with no hydrophobic surfaces to increase the speed of condensation and the dropping-off process in water collection systems from atmospheric moisture. The design incorporates simple and low-cost technology that takes advantage of advanced material properties to enable sustainable irrigation in regions characterized by water resource scarcity, generally favoring greening. The concept is based on the application of universal physics principles such as dew point, wetting and antiwetting, and material emissivity coefficients. The innovative collection system design and experimentation confirm the feasibility of collecting water from the air in various semi-arid regions with a low number of rainy days. The first novel aspect of the collection system design is the rapid increase in condensation and the use of materials with a high capacity to release collected water to address unwanted evaporation. The second novel feature is that the volume is reduced, and the system is flexible and inexpensive, allowing it to be distributed across a specific landscape. Reduced construction costs and ease of use demonstrate the real possibility of its use in developing and poor countries to first increase vegetation diffusion and then contribute to sustainable agriculture and green architecture.

Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty: Correlation, Mismatches, and a Combined Approach

We consider the relationships between multidimensional and monetary poverty indices in international and national poverty profiles, and empirically explore the consequences of identifying poor people relying on a combination of both approaches. Taking first a cross-country perspective, focusing on 90 countries in the developing world, we corroborate that the incidence of poverty by money metrics and the global Multidimensional Poverty Index, a non-monetary measure of poverty, are correlated. Digging deeper, we use microdata from six countries—Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Uganda—to study the joint densities of monetary and multidimensional welfare and the poverty identification mismatches for a comprehensive array of poverty line pairs. Mismatches are important, particularly in the poorer countries. Although mismatches could be avoided by combining both approaches in a dual cutoff-based poverty measure, the choice of the monetary poverty line remains a considerable issue as it changes the nonmonetary composition of poverty.

The Evolution of Financial Technology in Indonesia

Financial technology has its origins in industrialized nations with well-established infrastructure, cutting-edge technology, and a more digitally-oriented populace. Fintech has had trouble entering poor countries and enhancing their financial inclusion, even if this is not the case for emerging nations. This study attempts to identify global fintech best practices and examine how they could enhance the economic well-being of those living in poor nations. We categorized the issues into three categories: a lack of infrastructure, a society that is less digital, and an unorganized and informal culture. Then we looked at Microfinancing, Crowdfunding, Digital payment system as the three fintech’s that best embody the three categories. The development of financial technology began in industrialized countries with advanced infrastructure, cutting-edge technology, and a population that was more accustomed to using digital devices. Even while this is not the case for rising countries, fintech has difficulty reaching poor countries and improving their financial inclusion. This study looks for global fintech best practices and considers how they could improve the economic security of people in developing countries. We divided the problems into three groups: a dearth of infrastructure, a society that uses less technology, and an unstructured and disorganized culture. The three fintech’s that most closely represent the three categories were then examined: Micro Financing, Crowdfunding, Digital payment system.

Barriers to green human resources management (GHRM) implementation in developing countries: evidence from China.

Because of the current climate adaptation and long-term viability advancements, campaigners both locally and globally are pressuring businesses to embrace green practices. But there are challenges to putting green policies into action. The goal of this research was to analyze the most significant challenges encountered by Chinese businesses when attempting to implement environmentally responsible HR practices (GHRM). There were seventeen setbacks found, and these were sorted into five main groups. In order to pilot test the survey questions, we spoke with twenty experts in the fields of human resources and environmental management. One hundred and ninety-nine questionnaires were subsequently distributed to a random sample of company CEOs (19), HR managers (30), CFOs (30), and HR directors (40). The PSI approach was used to establish a hierarchy of the most significant obstacles and their subobstacles. Twenty-three percent of GHRM barriers in the research area were attributable to economic factors. The absence of financial resources emerged as the most crucial obstacle overall (with a score of 0.99) and among the subbarriers. The second most common barrier was found to be political and regulatory (20.1%), while the least common was found to be cultural and educational (18.2%). Government and financial institutions can help businesses overcome the most significant obstacles by offering low-interest loans for the development and implementation of sustainable business strategies and initiatives. As such, this study complements the current body of literature on green HR. Examining the challenges faced when trying to put GHRM into practice in a poor country context, this helps policymakers and practitioners in China and other similar economies understand environmental innovation barriers and develop policies to overcome them.

The Influence of Sino-american Cultural Differences on Economic Development based on Game Theory and Solow Growth Model

From 1960 to 2000, East Asian countries' gdp grew at an average annual rate of 6 percent, much higher than the OECD average annual growth rate of 2 percent. As analyzed by the Solow growth Model, when relatively poor countries share some of the same factors as developed countries, the average annual growth rate of East Asian countries is much higher. The economies of poor countries tend to converge with those of rich ones, including better legal systems, competitive markets, and better health programmes. But the real process and the model's conclusions do not match perfectly. Despite the continuous optimization of various systems in East Asia, it is still far away for East Asia to converge with the economic level of developed countries. One of the reasons is that developed countries led by the United States take advantage of their economic advantages and international status under the guidance of capitalist human rights values. The intention is to hinder the development of developing countries, including China, in order to maintain their international status advantages and seek benefits. As the largest developing country, China's development speed in recent years is beyond doubt. With the improvement of economy, the improvement of system and the continuous improvement of international status, different from the exploitation of other countries by the so-called human rights doctrine by the United States, under the principle of socialist core values derived from Chinese culture, China carries out the Belt and Road Initiative, deepens practical cooperation among countries, and holds the World Expo. To issue a green call to the world, jointly build a green earth, jointly cast a community of shared future for mankind, and use comparative advantages to benefit the world. With the improvement of the strength of most developing countries such as China, the contradiction between the behavior patterns determined by the different consciousness of developing countries and developed countries in the international world is deepening day by day. From the perspective of Marxist contradiction analysis, the contradiction is bound to be solved in a way that conforms to the fundamental interests of most people. Let's combine this argument with different arguments in economics to think about what cultural ideas end up dominating world culture when two cultures collide. This paper first uses Marxist materialist dialectics to introduce the reasons for the formation of social forms in developed capitalist countries and the dominant cultural thoughts in the formation process, and then introduces the dominant culture in China's 5,000 years of history. Compare different domestic and international economic behaviors determined by different consciences influenced by different cultures, and compare and analyze the process and results of economic interaction between the two cultural conflicts on the basis of the game model and Solow's growth model. The analysis results show that the expanded Soro growth model of domestic economy on the basis of adhering to the moral primacy culture overcomes the free-rider problem of scientific and technological innovation under the principle of human rights primacy. Therefore, in the end, under steady state, China's domestic economic growth will still be higher than that of the United States, while the international status of the United States will decline due to the rise of a large number of developing countries. Finally, the United States will be forced to give up the current exploitation of developing countries, and the idea of win-win cooperation will become the mainstream idea of international trade.

Social capital as a factor of innovative development

The article is devoted to the study of the influence of social capital on the ability of countries to produce innovations. The analysis of the achievements of economic science in the field of studying social capital and innovation revealed the ambiguity of views on the relationship between these categories, as well as wide discussions about the influence of the stock of social capital on the nature of economic growth. The authors associated the existing difficulties of the research process with insufficient attention of scientists to different levels and forms of manifestation of social capital, which have different potential in promoting innovation. On the basis of the methodological approach, in which individualistic and holistic ideas about economic activity are combined in the framework of institutional theory, the decomposition of public social capital into its individual and organizational levels and corresponding functional forms is carried out. On this basis, the nature of their interaction and role in the innovation process is shown. In order to quantify social capital in view of its ability to promote innovation, an integral indicator "Index of Innovative Social Capital" was constructed as a combination of three key components: close cooperation between the university and R&D, Information & communication technologies, and social capital itself. In a sample of 26 countries of different levels of development, a strong two-way direct relationship with an average degree of significance was found between the "Index of Innovative Social Capital" and GDP per capita. The presence of such dependence serves as another explanation for the unevenness of innovative development in the world, and therefore, opens up guidelines for poor countries to increase their innovative potential in view of social and institutional factors.

Bardhan, Pranab: A world of insecurity. Democratic disenchantment in rich and poor countries, Harvard university press, 2022, 240 pp., $ 27.95 (hardcover)

Bardhan, Pranab: A world of insecurity. Democratic disenchantment in rich and poor countries, Harvard university press, 2022, 240 pp., $ 27.95 (hardcover)

The Social Protection Engel Curve

Abstract Why do richer countries spend a higher share of their income on social protection than poor countries? A newly assembled dataset on social protection spending for 142 countries since 1995 allows an exploration of alternate hypotheses, treating the pandemic period separately, as it entailed a large expansion in social protection efforts. While the mean income share devoted to social protection rises with income, this is attributable to multiple confounders, including relative prices, weak governance in low-income countries, and access to information-communication technologies. Controlling for these, social protection spending is similar between rich and poor countries. This was also true during the pandemic.

Climate attribution of interpersonal violence: International evidence

Anthropogenic climate change is increasingly threatening interpersonal violence, yet global evidence for related impacts and potential transmission mechanisms remains limited. We examine whether and how climate change, particularly climate extremes, affects interpersonal violence. Using the panel data of 140 countries and regions from 2000 to 2019, we find that hot and wet extremes precipitated increase in homicide rates globally. Economic level, inequality, and resources scarcity were important intermediaries through which climate extremes affected homicide, while the direct effects still dominated the total effects. We then reveal the heterogeneous effects of climate extremes, further suggesting that poor countries and regions with relatively small contributions to climate change were particularly sensitive to climate extremes. These findings elucidate a strong climate-violence link, helping explain implications of facilitating violence prevention and mitigating climate change.