This study investigates the effect of economic development on womens well being by relating a countrys per capita GDP with several dimensions that affect womens affluence and well being within the economic, social and political context. Data from a sample of low and middle-income category of...

This paper investigates the effect of food prices on a number of health outcome indicators using published data for Pacific Island countries. The empirical results provide confirmation that while food prices are shown to be positively correlated with infant mortality and crude death rates, they...