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This research report from the Milken Institute ranks U.S. metropolitan areas that are recording the top economic performance and creating the most jobs in the nation. The index is an outcomes-based measure as opposed to one that incorporates explicit measures of business costs, cost-of-living...
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KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures … comprise an index of child well-being used to rank states and supplemental data on education, health, and economic conditions …
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This survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to … and service economies. The evidence is that positive technology shocks to agriculture have played a key role in igniting a … transition from traditional to modern agriculture and to long-term economic growth in almost all countries. Improvements in …
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explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the … policies, therehave been few attempts to examine nutrition in less-developed countriesthrough an economic history lens.[...] …
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[...]In this paper we attempt to contribute to such an improved mapping by analyzing the nutritional status of a representative sample of households in Syria. According to the preliminary results of this analysis, average levels of nutrient intake are relatively high in Syria, indicating a...
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Much of the recent literature on price transmission focuses on whether price changesoccurring at one stage of the food sector are fully transmitted in changes to retail prices. Therole of market structure in determining the degree of price transmission is often emphasised,the presumption being...
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A unique data set on home use of computers and the Internet is used to investigate the tradeoffsbetween physically commuting to a work site and telecommuting from home via computers. Thestudy further investigates whether individuals who work from home receive greatercompensation relative to...
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Laut Umfragen stellt die Gesundheit für viele Menschen einen sehr hohen Wert, meist sogar den höchsten Wert dar. Wurde … früher Gesundheit als Abwesenheit von Krankheit definiert, so hat sich die Gesundheit heute zu einem mehrdimensionalen …
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Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement bedeutet persönliche Gesundheitswerte mit Unternehmenszielen zu verknüpfen und in Einklang zu bringen (win-win). In diesem Artikel erklärt Herr Möller die wichtigsten Instrumente aus der Personal- und Organisationsentwicklung die zur Gesundheitsförderung...
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, but as per capita income in developed countries has grown in the20th century, a new problem of over-nutrition leading to … obesity has occurred. This paper developsmodels of calorie demand and health supply, as reflected in aggregate mortality …
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