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Biopharming stands to significantly expand the uses of many agricultural crops. This article examines the potential size and distribution of welfare gains from biopharming transgenic tobacco as a source of human serum albumin (HSA) using an economic surplus model under imperfect competition. The...
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South Asian (SA) countries' growth-dynamics since 1951 is examined and compared using the annual catch-up index. Their growth is more volatile than 89 countries' sample studied earlier. It does not experience a stable phase, is sharply divergent, and the country that grows fastest for two...
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Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may … attenuate income's positive effects on health, we also analyze the association between income and such health …
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We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …
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