growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for ….0 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …

evidence that an increase in child mortality and Cholera deaths as well as a decrease in public spending on health care are …

The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and … associated with higher mortality. The death rate has a consistent strong positive relationship with the Gini coefficient for …