The Conversation checks the accuracy of assertions made on Q&A and airs . We thank all who have sent us quotes to check on Twitter with hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA. You can share your thoughts on Facebook or via email. You might be surprised to learn that more than 15 percent of Australian households have solar panels installed on their roofs. This is the highest amount of solar panels installed on roofs per person across the entire world. Photovoltaics (PV) technology generates electricity from solar energy directly. If you notice a solar panel on your home's roof, it's likely that solar...

Dangwen is from Yunta Dangwen, a village within Sanjiangyuan, Qinghai Province on the Tibetan Plateau. Sanjiangyuan Sanjiangyuan, which is a region of 400,000 square kilometers that is a significant habitat for a unique and rich biodiversity, and is a watershed for the three major rivers of Asia which are which are the Yellow, Yangtze and Mekong that serve more than one billion people living downstream. Dangwen isn't formally a activist or researcher. However, he has taken on himself the responsibility of monitoring local wildlife, along with a group of other villager villagers within a conservation initiative that is managed by Shanshui Conservation...

The number of women who are victims of crime are on the rise and include particularly brutal crimes like murders of dowries, rapes and honour murders. These patterns are troubling because a normal prediction would be that with increased growth comes prosperity and education, and the possibility of a decline in the adherence to the traditional social norms and gender roles that keep women behind. Sons have a preference The cultural institutions of India and in particular, those of patrilineality (inheritance through male descendants) and patrilocality (married couples who live close to the spouse's parents) have a significant function in perpetuating gender...

A modest increase in micro-lending to countries in need could help lift up to 10.5 million people from extreme poverty. This is the conclusion of my research, which was published last month in The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, which discovered that microfinance not only decreases the number of households in poverty, but also how poor they are. Presently, 836 million people, which is 12% of the global population, are living in extreme poverty and are living on less than US$1.25 every day. Utilizing data from 106 emerging countries the years 1998 to 2013, I analyze the effectiveness of microlending as an effective poverty reduction...

What is sensible for trains in India also is logical for cities in India. In Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has made plans to build 362 bio-toilets that are accessible to the public in slums where sewer networks are not in place. The government of India also funds the initiative. government's campaign to create an "Clean India", also called "Swachh Bharat" will boost the number of bio-toilets located in poorer communities that aren't connected to sewer lines of municipal utility. The transition to bio-toilets within Indian Railways and in low-income urban areas demonstrates that it is feasible to bring about changes that are systematic...

A dichotomy between the benefits of economic growth and social effects always marks migration of workers. Based on a 2016 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) study conducted in Kyrgyzstan, women who have migrated have to endure a lot of ridicule when they return home. In a survey of 6,000 households in the study, it was discovered that more than half respondents (51 percent for women and 61% males) consider that the "wife's career is less important than the career of her husband". However 43% of males as well as 38% of females believed that "woman's work has negative impact on family...

The study, conducted in Germany exa,mined the wealth of 28650 women to determine their personal wealth during the span of 10 years from 2002 until 2012. In the study, the term "personal wealth" refers to any economic asset that individuals own for themselves in addition to their part of the assets they share with a partner. We discovered that every year following the first baby was born, she earns just 98 cents per every EUR1 of wealth women without children earn. The small amount of difference can add up throughout. After a mother's existence for over 50 years, the mother's...