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 …

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 …

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

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 …