Yet New Guinea's awkward geography, poor infrastructure and myriad ethnic divisions make it difficult to mount an effective prevention campaign.Myanmar presents even more daunting challenges.
Too many countries, he argues, are caught in a "poverty trap," a combination of poor geography, poor infrastructure and poor health care.
It's a sharp change from the early 1990s, when Mexico City's problems seemed intractable – a product of unfavorable geography and poor urban planning, Mr. Velasco says.
Honduras remained stable, albeit under mainly military rule, until 1982, but has been condemned to poverty by difficult geography and poor soil.
Using online education to improve access makes sense in the developing world, for example, where geography and poor infrastructure make universities materially inaccessible to many citizens.
Amid growing concern about runaway health spending, he thinks the industry can find inspiration in India.Poverty, geography and poor infrastructure mean that India faces perhaps the world's heaviest disease burden, ranging from infectious diseases, the traditional scourge of the poor, to diseases of affluence such as diabetes and hypertension.
The mountain and hill districts (Bajhang and Dailekh, respectively) have difficult geography and poor road conditions.
The outcomes were at the body level (pain, joint stiffness), person level (difficulty moving around, doing fine hand movements, self care, obtaining and maintaining employment, etc)., and societal level (loss of employment, difficulty in moving around because of the geography and poor public transport, loss of social interactions because of negative attitudes, etc).
But the existing Caucasian pipeline once looked just as unlikely; political will turned it into reality, and could still save the Caspian scheme.Stand your groundRussia can hardly be blamed for maximising the economic benefits of its energy riches and geography; every other poor, resource-rich country does the same.
Last night our conversation, prompted by an excellent meal and suitable quantities of wine, ranged over subjects including physics – how conduction, convection and radiation might affect the warmth of our sleeping bag; geography – how my poor navigation had sent us down a cul-de-sac in Marple; politics – whether as Lib Dems we would rather be in Brighton; and sex.
According to the decision tree, one of the reasons why firms are not growing could be the poor geography of the country.
