During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, health system disruptions, fear of becoming infected with COVID-19, mobility restrictions and lockdowns, and reduced household incomes likely contributed to households forgoing needed health care. Using repeated measures collected with a...

A WHO and UNICEF joint report states that in 2008, 884 million people lacked access to potable drinking water. A life-cycle approach to develop potable water systems may improve the sustainability for such systems, however, a review of the literature shows that such an approach has primarily...

Using data from the National Income Dynamics Study, we document differentials in both underweight and obesity across race and gender in post-Apartheid South Africa. Using a nonlinear decomposition method, we decompose these differences across gender within race and then across race within...

The reasons why mergers have a hazy, hostile or indifferent image in the minds of many otherwise rational people will not allow superficial, simple or easy explanations. As a business activity, in one form or other, mergers have been with us for a very long time, though the wider recognition of...

The merger brokers' task is to use his skills so as not to allow superficial attitudinising by the negotiating parties to solidify into rigid postures; because if they do, that is the end of the affair and both parties will leave the negotiating table disenchanted with themselves, with each...

THE FUTURE prosperity of the free world's industrial societies is currently in the balance. It is timely therefore that the role of the entrepreneur in industry and the conditions which nurture his development should be the subject of general discussion. Industrial capitalism and the market...