A very good summary for non-demographers....
Population Decline Isn’t a Problem (and ‘More Babies’ Isn’t a Solution) https://nyti.ms/3XPeOTP
Tom Moultrie
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Professor of demography at U Cape Town; cricket; politics. Analyst of South African Covid testing data and excess deaths (2020-)
Let no-one in South Africa say, in 2023, that between the Zondo reports and this deep dive into Eskom and its corrupting deals with the ANC, they were not aware of the phenomenal extent of that corruption.
Great work by @[email protected]
Mega projects Kusile and Medupi are misfiring because of design faults and poor execution and construction — and it was the ANC that helped Hitachi land the contracts. For a fee. https://www.news24.com/news24/investigations/eskomfiles/the-eskom-files-documents-confirm-political-sway-in-ancs-chancellor-house-r38bn-boiler-deal-with-hitachi-eskom-20230130
THE ESKOM FILES | Political sway in ANC's Chancellor House R38bn boiler deal with Hitachi, Eskom
ANC investment firm Chancellor House used its political connections and friends inside Eskom at the urging of Hitachi executives to influence the outcome of a R38 billion boiler tender for Medupi and Kusile power stations, according to never-before-seen documents.
Let no-one in South Africa say, in 2023, that between the Zondo reports and this deep dive into Eskom and its corrupting deals with the ANC, they were not aware of the phenomenal extent of that corruption.
Great work by @[email protected]
Mega projects Kusile and Medupi is misfiring because of design faults and poor execution and construction — and it was the ANC that helped Hitachi land the contracts. For a fee. https://www.news24.com/news24/investigations/eskomfiles/the-eskom-files-documents-confirm-political-sway-in-ancs-chancellor-house-r38bn-boiler-deal-with-hitachi-eskom-20230130
THE ESKOM FILES | Political sway in ANC's Chancellor House R38bn boiler deal with Hitachi, Eskom
ANC investment firm Chancellor House used its political connections and friends inside Eskom at the urging of Hitachi executives to influence the outcome of a R38 billion boiler tender for Medupi and Kusile power stations, according to never-before-seen documents.
The direct line between a corrupt ANC and load shedding.
THE ESKOM FILES | Political sway in ANC's Chancellor House R38bn boiler deal with Hitachi, Eskom https://www.news24.com/news24/investigations/eskomfiles/the-eskom-files-documents-confirm-political-sway-in-ancs-chancellor-house-r38bn-boiler-deal-with-hitachi-eskom-20230130
THE ESKOM FILES | Political sway in ANC's Chancellor House R38bn boiler deal with Hitachi, Eskom
ANC investment firm Chancellor House used its political connections and friends inside Eskom at the urging of Hitachi executives to influence the outcome of a R38 billion boiler tender for Medupi and Kusile power stations, according to never-before-seen documents.
Number of EU students enrolling in UK universities halves post-Brexit https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jan/27/number-eu-students-enrolling-uk-universities-down-half-since-brexit?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1674800331
These are blatant *LIES*. @[email protected] has *NOT* "been working tirelessly" to engage with the AU over wage negotiations; nor have they done "everything possible to, at best, avert any possible staff protest action". A timeline as per AU official info. #UCTAcademicsStrike 1/19 https://twitter.com/UCT_news/status/1616842593727283200
For the first time in @[email protected] almost 200-year history, academic staff have begun preparations to go on strike over the 3% pay offer for 2023. Other institutions are able to offer 6%.
#UCTAcademicsStrike
#UCTAcademicsStrike
Counting #deaths matters for countries.
Our new policy brief shares why and how we can improve #CRVS in the region - https://bit.ly/3XnMuaO
Reaching a regional estimate of death registration completeness
ESCAP serves as the United Nations’ regional hub promoting cooperation among countries to achieve inclusive and sustainable development. It is the largest regional intergovernmental platform with 53 Member States and 9 associate members.
New paper, "The Population Seen from Space: When Satellite Images Come to the Rescue of the Census" is available. @[email protected] @[email protected] Read more #datascience: https://bit.ly/3jTn7Pf
The Population Seen from Space: When Satellite Images Come to the Rescue of the Census
Le dénombrement de la population, dénominateur de nombreux indicateurs statistiques, est crucial pour les politiques publiques d’un pays. Il est du ressort des instituts nationaux de statistique d’en organiser la collecte, le plus souvent par le biais d’un recensement. Que se passe-t-il lorsqu’une partie du territoire n’est pas accessible aux agents recenseurs ? Actuellement, les données spatiales, telles qu’extraites de l’imagerie satellite, offrent une information géographique complète et de haute résolution, qui représente, lorsque combinée à un dénombrement partiel de la population, une opportunité sans précédent pour estimer les effectifs des territoires manquants. Leur précision spatiale rend également possible une estimation carroyée de la population en haute résolution, un format de données innovant à la croisée de la géographie et de la démographie. À partir du cas du Burkina Faso, cet article analyse comment le découpage du pays en carreaux de 100m sur 100m permet dans un premier temps de développer un modèle pour estimer, par le biais d’une approche hiérarchique bayésienne, la population des zones caractérisées par des problèmes sécuritaires n’ayant pas pu être dénombrées lors du dernier recensement de 2019. Ce découpage permet dans un second temps de désagréger les effectifs obtenus, par le biais d’un modèle d’apprentissage statistique pour obtenir une précision spatiale d’estimation de la population inégalée.
We recognise that our sailors have been active in other more competently designed ships.
However we will no longer allow free promotion of ideas such as tumblehome being a bit shit, the usefulness of stability, or that boilers should be designed to make more steam and less smoke