In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative survey...

This special collection includes three full length novels - hundreds of pages of well-researched adventures and thrills. Fans of George MacDonald Fraser, Ian Fleming and John D. MacDonald will enjoy former Army Ranger turned covert agent Jake Fonko's globe-spanning adventures.Includes: Fonko in the Sun (Book 4), Fonko Bolo (Book 5) and The Mother of All Fonkos (Book 6)Fonko in the Sun (Book 4)- Grand Cayman 1983. When ex-Army Ranger turned soldier of fortun...

This special collection includes three full length novels - hundreds of pages of well-researched adventures and thrills - for the price of two individual volumes. Fans of George MacDonald Fraser, Ian Fleming and John D. MacDonald will enjoy former Army Ranger turned covert agent Jake Fonko's globe-spanning adventures.Includes: Fonko Go Home (Book 7), To Russia With Fonko (Book 8), and The Fonko Connection (Book 9).Fonko Go Home – Serbia, 1992. Jake Fonko bu...

This special collection includes three full length novels - hundreds of pages of well-researched adventures and thrills - for less than the price of two individual volumes. Fans of George MacDonald Fraser, Ian Fleming and John D. MacDonald will enjoy former Army Ranger turned covert agent Jake Fonko's globe-spanning adventures.Book 1: Jake Fonko M.I.A (Vietnam/Cambodia 1975)Book 2: Fonko on the Carpet (Iran 1978 - 1979)Book 3: Fonko's Errand Go Boom (Northern Irelan...

GRAND CAYMAN, 1983. When ex-Army Ranger Jake Fonko is hired for a routine job in the Caribbean, the first day of his mission doesn't turn out as planned. After stumbling into possession of highly sensitive financial documents from the BCCI, a bloody bank robbery, a barroom shootout, multiple aerial dogfights and a chopper crash in the Jamaican jungle welcome him to paradise.With no passport and no backup, Jake finds himself pursued by crooks, cartels, corrupt polit...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays that examine reproductive health through historical research...

TEHRAN, 1978. Running low on cash, former Army Ranger Jake Fonko receives a freelance referral for an unlikely client: the Shah of Iran requires a capable bodyguard. The splintering Iranian factions have grown restless, and the Shah's popularity is waning.Jake heads to Tehran, but upon arriving, he soon realizes the job is far more dangerous than he first thought. As the country crumbles, Jake learns firsthand that the Shah's allies are no longer welcome.An...

SERBIA, 1992. At the annual Bilderberg Conference, former Army Ranger Jake Fonko bumps into an old flame from his Cambodia adventure, and one thing leads to another.And another. And another. Until he finds himself caught between the Russian Mafia, a Hong Kong crime family and both sides in the Serbian Civil War.

IRAQ, 1991. When former Army Ranger turned freelance gun-for-hire Jake Fonko receives a cushy "consulting" offer in Kuwait City, he hops a plane and heads out for what he expects will be a relaxing four week stay.Soon after Jake lands, however, Saddam Hussein's army blitzkriegs the city, trapping everyone inside. Now, Jake's new mission is simple: survive the broiling desert. But playing all the roles required to make it out alive will tax Jake's training and ironi...

PHILIPPINES, 1986. After an old CIA associate blackmails former Army Ranger Jake Fonko into accepting a covert assignment, Jake heads to the Philippines. His mission? Clandestinely stop a communist uprising threatening critical US military bases in the region—along with one of America's staunchest allies: Ferdinand Marcos.But, of course, Jake's mission isn't really that simple—and so he must use his training and satirical wit to prevent the rebels from seizing the ...

COLOMBIA, 1989. Former Army Ranger Jake Fonko's routine bodyguarding gig goes south when his client strands him in Medellin, Colombia. All alone, and without backup, Jake must make his way home on his own.And all that stands between Jake and his Malibu beach pad are: Two drug cartels. Four anti-drug efforts. One terrorist group. One covert CIA op. Two international arms smugglers. One tinpot dictator. Several candidates for The Worst Man in the World. One U.S. Army...

MOSCOW, 1993. When an old friend calls former Army Ranger Jake Fonko with a desperate plea for help in retrieving stolen millions, Jake soon finds himself in the middle of post-communist Russia.But the shattered empire teeters on the brink of total collapse. And with trillions in wealth lying in wait for those intrepid—or crooked—enough to seize it, death lurks everywhere in the misery haunted streets.Which means that Jake must use all his training and wits...