Health progress, as measured by the decline in mortality rates and the increase in life expectancy, is usuallyconceived as related to economic growth, especially in the long run. In this investigation it is shown thateconomic growth is positively associated with health progress in Sweden...

The impact of an ageing population on the economy is one of the key issues in most developed countries. It is a generally accepted notion that an ageing population could cause negative effects, including a decrease of per-capita output and economic welfare, on the economy mainly due to the...

This article assesses the empirical relationship between per capita income growth fluctuations and the age-structured human capital variations across four groups of geographically clustered developed and developing countries from spatial perspective. We estimate a spatial Vector Autoregressive...

With respect to the prepared accession of the Czech Republic into the EU it is necessary to identify oneself with trends and rules of the EU in the field of rural development. The new demarcation of regions (of rural districts in the Czech republic) in harmony with the common methodology of OECD...

In regions there is demonstrated the different extent of the adaptability to new market conditions, and, therefore, it is necessary to identify those problem regions, to consider carefully and to evaluate their potential for the needful structural and social changes. It is, proceeded from the...

Much of the endogenous growth literature has dwelled on evaluating the spillover effects of trade on growth, but much less efforts have been directed towards tracing and quantifying the spillover effects of foreign investments. This paper, in incorporating the effects of various types of foreign...

A demographic development of advanced countries is characterized by worsening of the age structure and population aging. Similar trends show themselves also in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Owing to political and economic changes in both the states, there were also changes in a population...