This thesis explores health technology innovation within indigenous enterprises in China, India, and Brazil. The main … discussions are presented in five papers/manuscripts. The first is a case study of Brazil’s health biotechnology sector. It … technologies in their pipelines or on the market. It concludes that that a growing number of health enterprises in these countries …

educational and health aspirations. Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the individual’s own … education. However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when surrounded by others …

health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second …

coverage of disasters has a dramatic impact on donations to relief agencies, with an additional minute of nightly news coverage …

A generalized framework of Economic Analysis of natural and man-made disasters is applied to the estimation of business …

participants to do business through information and communication technology (ICT) tools and systems is dependent on the innovation … of the user, not only the technology itself – i.e. the successful implementation of ICT requires careful consideration to …

aspect of mainstream economics using a very traditional approach. We introduce a simple endogenous growth model that shows …