More broadly, widespread iodine deficiency can diminish the cognitive capital of entire nations, diminishing socio-economic progress, experts claim.
Tourism is seen as one of the main drivers of socio-economic progress in both developed and developing regions.
"Strong GDP growth cannot be relied upon by itself to generate inclusive socio-economic progress and rising median living standards," the report concluded.
Wealthier, better-educated couples are the worst offenders, the findings show, putting paid to hopes that socio-economic progress would lead to a change in attitude.
This has motivated growing emphasis on the impacts of science funding, and how funding can best be designed to promote socio-economic progress.
Socio-economic progress, developmental challenges and the intelligent addressing of complex world issues require a combination of skills drawn from the humanities, social sciences and Stem subjects to design and deliver holistic and fully informed solutions.
Awarded to nationals of the 22-member countries of the League of Arab States who demonstrate leadership, dedication, and commitment to the Arab World's human and socio-economic progress.
A fundamental problem in the field of the technological studies is to explain the source and nature of general purpose technologies (GPTs) that can support the patterns of long waves and socio-economic progress of nations.
Innumerous authors affirm that this lack of access to electricity is a key factor in perpetuating poverty around the world and compromises the socio-economic progress of those places.
This ecological engineering of wetlands in Fanchang County of Anhui Province has contributed to the transformation of local wetland ecosystems so that they can now be managed for sustainable development and local socio-economic progress.
But, said Campello, the programme was not solely responsible for the country's socio-economic progress: between 2002 and 2013, the poorest 20% of Brazilians saw their incomes rise by 6.2%, while those in the top 20% saw a rise of only 2.6%.
