. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well-being of markets, in which promoting …

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature … suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about … whether increases in pollution could cause additional or more severe infections from COVID-19, which typically manifests as a …

striking contradiction is China where, despite a fourfold multiplication in two decades in real GDP per capita from a low … term ; short term ; Easterlin paradox ; developed countries ; transition countries ; less developed countries ; China …

Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the … global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …

world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …

ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …

In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …