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Ernährung, wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Bürgerkriege in Afrika südlich der Sahara (1950-2000)
Moradi, Alexander - 2005
growth. Based on this biological relationship, we analyse heights of more than 160 000 women from 28 African countries drawn … countries mean heights stagnated or decreased between 1950 and 1980 and even though in several African countries the nutritional …. The adverse African climate causes a multitude of diseases like Malaria, which strongly affected African heights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475318
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Regional Differences and Temporal Development of the Nutritional Status in Europe from the 8th century B.C. until the 18th century A.D.
Köpke, Nikola - 2008
Das Ziel dieser Doktorarbeit ist die Untersuchung der Nettoernährung der Europäer vom 8. Jh. v.Chr. bis zum 18. Jh. n.Chr., und somit der Versuch erstmals das Desiderat anzugehen, eine Langzeitstudie zum (biologischen) Lebensstandard der Europäer in der Vor- und Frühgeschichte zu...
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Risk of Exposure to and Mitigation of Effect of Aflatoxin on Human Health: A West African Example.
Cardwell, Kitty F.; Henry, Sara H. - 2004
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the relative risk of exposure of different human populations to food-borne aflatoxins; the types of health impact that may be incurred by dietary exposure to aflatoxins; and possible strategies likely to mitigate risks to human health. Risk of exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429577
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Declining Growth Status of Indigenous Siberian Childrenin Post-Soviet Russia
Leonard, William R.; Spencer, Gary J.; Galloway, Victoria A. - 2011
Human health status in Russia has declined sharply over the last decade. The massive social changes that have taken place since the fall of the Soviet Union have resulted in increasing morbidity and mortality rates. However, relatively little information is available on the changes in health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431741
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Terms of trade movements and the global economic crisis: Implications for the Asia-Pacific region
Bloch, Harry; Sapsford, D. - 2009
Dramatic changes in the relative prices of goods in international trade have accompanied, and indeed preceded, the global crisis. These changes are reflected in the terms of trade ofindividual countries and in the relative prices of goods within those countries. Asia-Pacific countries are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434781
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Terms of trade movements and the global economic crisis: Implications for the Asia-Pacific region
Bloch, Harry; Sapsford, D. - 2009
Dramatic changes in the relative prices of goods in international trade have accompanied, and indeed preceded, the global crisis. These changes are reflected in the terms of trade of individual countries and in the relative prices of goods within those countries. Asia-Pacific countries are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434784
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Trend and Cycles in Coal and Oil Prices in the Long Run: A Schumpeterian Approach
Bloch, Harry; Sapsford, D. - 2011
We contribute to the task of identifying trends and cycles in energy prices by examining very long series of prices for coal and oil, going back to 1650 in the case of coal and 1859 in the case of oil. We find annual rates of increase in real price of greater than two percent are found for coal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435028
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The Welfare Cost of Business Cycles Revisited: Finite Lives and Cyclical Variation in Idiosyncratic Risk
Storesletten, Kjetil; Telmer, Chris I; Yaron, Amir - 2000
This paper investigates the welfare costs of business cycles in a heterogeneous agent, overlapping generations economy which is distinguished by idiosyncratic labor market risk. Aggregate variation arises both in terms of aggregate productivity shocks and countercyclical variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441157
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A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment-productivity nexus: SKOPE Research Paper No. 38, Spring 2003
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2003
This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth", describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441372
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The properties of cycles in South African financial variables and their relation to the business cycle
Boshoff, Willem Hendrik - 2006
The goal of this thesis is twofold: it aims, firstly, at a description of cycles in SouthAfrican financial variables and, secondly, at the evaluation of the relationshipbetween cycles in financial variables and the South African business cycle. The studyis based on the original business cycle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442149