Can digital payments help countries adapt to climate change?
For thousands of farmers in the Philippines, climate change is a direct threat to their livelihoods.
For thousands of farmers in the Philippines, climate change is a direct threat to their livelihoods.
Environment
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Family conditions—specifically, how similar one's social status and background is to one's parents' status—may play a bigger role in determining how easily an individual can shift into a wealthier socioeconomic class ...
Social Sciences
Jun 20, 2024
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Efforts to boost social mobility must move away from "helicopter" policies designed to encourage some chosen few children to "escape" their communities, a study warns.
Economics & Business
May 20, 2024
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Focusing attention on your mobile phone instead of your partner doesn't just strain your relationship—it also affects women's creativity in the workplace, caution researchers from the Universities of Bath, Aston, and IESE ...
Social Sciences
Apr 8, 2024
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Four of the largest school boards in Canada are suing the companies behind popular social media apps Instagram and Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok. According to the Ontario boards, students are "experiencing an attention, learning ...
Education
Apr 2, 2024
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Gambling features such as loot boxes in video games and sports betting are the most popular forms of online gambling among young adults in the ACT, with many introduced to it before the age of 18, according to a new report ...
Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2024
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Understanding how the poor deal with the effects of the economic crisis into which Brazil plunged in 2014 was the aim of the research project "The crisis seen from the periphery: struggle for social mobility in the frontiers ...
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2024
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In studying social mobility in today's industrialized nations, researchers typically rely on data from the World Economic Forum or, in the United States, the General Social Survey. But examining the same phenomena from past ...
Archaeology
Jan 19, 2024
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Financial technology (FinTech)—innovation in the delivery of financial services and products—has grown in popularity, expanding access to finance for millions of people. But while promoting inclusive finance to accelerate ...
Economics & Business
Dec 12, 2023
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Millions of people in the UK are unable to meet their most basic physical needs: to stay warm, dry, clean and fed. This is known as destitution.
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2023
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