Despite its evident importance relatively little is known about links between Body Mass Index (BMI) and participation … paper attempts to fill this void and examines the association between BMI and participation in, duration of employment in …

Overall participation in the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in Maharashtra (an Indian state) fell sharply over the … rise in participation in subsequent years, it was dampened by a change in the composition of the EGS. Specifically … official explanation for the decline in EGS participation in recent years in terms of expansion of farm and non-farm employment …

The issue of energy security has been a subject of discussions in Indonesia for a long time. However, until the end of … domestic prices of fuel and electricity through subsidies. With approximately 43 percent of the country's energy sources … derived from crude oil, the amount of government spending on energy subsidies increased from almost nothing in 1996 to …

set on energy and economic growth from Sweden spanning 150 years to determine whether increases in energy use and energy … with larger samples are more likely to show that energy causes output growth but it is also possible that the relationship … between energy and growth has changed over time. Energy prices have a significant causal impact on both energy use and output …

If long-term greenhouse gas emissions in Australia are to be reduced, renewable energy is likely to be critical. This … electricity rests mainly with the success, or otherwise, of its Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and expanded Renewable Energy …

Interfuel substitutability has been of longstanding interest to energy economists and policy makers. However, there has …

This study uses a stochastic production frontier to model energy efficiency trends, in 85 countries over a 37 year … and a theoretical model of energy-efficient technology choice. An improvement in a country’s energy efficiency is measured … as a reduction in energy intensity, while holding constant that economy’s mix of inputs and outputs. All other things …

Physics shows that energy is necessary for economic production and, therefore, economic growth but the mainstream … theory of economic growth, except for specialized resource economics models, pays no attention to the role of energy. This …. A possible synthesis of energy-based and mainstream models is presented. This model shows that when energy is scarce it …