Africa's tropical disease burden, heavy concentration of landlocked countries, decline of aid for infrastructure during the 1980s and 1990s, and misguided attempts by Africa's creditors to collect debt servicing under "structural adjustment programs" during the 1980s and 1990s all played their part.
It is, by far, the biggest concentration of Indian country within the United States, and holds the largest tribe, with a population approaching 250,000, according to tribal estimates.
The concentration of our country's wealth among the very rich has gone from being an unsettling factoid to a rallying cry, and Jacob Kornbluth's "Inequality for All" hands the bullhorn to Robert Reich, the labor secretary under President Bill Clinton.
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation its first draft, handwritten by Lincoln, will be on display until Feb. 18. Shown here too is an extraordinary map published by the United States Coast Survey in 1861, shaded to show the concentration of the country's 3,952,838 slaves in Southern counties.
Historically, a concentration of the country's startups with the most upside move to the Valley, Boston, New York and Austin for what the geography can do for them.
We also need to address the unprecedented and dangerous concentration of the country's financial resources in the hands of a few institutions that have become even more arrogant, unmanageable, and disdainful of regulation than they were five years ago.
Supply risk is considered to arise from a combination of several factors, namely a high concentration of production in countries with poor governance, limited material substitutability, and poor end-of-life recycling rates.
There is a heavy concentration in a handful of countries.
The second factor was most commonly dominated by loadings of interest and enjoyment items (eight countries), with occasional lower level loadings of concentration (three countries).
More than 3,400 people live in shelters or on the sidewalks of the 52-square-block area — the densest concentration of homeless in the country.
