This paper conducts an assessment of the global costs for expanding, upgrading, and improving irrigation infrastructure … partial equilibrium model of the global agricultural and forestry sectors. It examines the impacts of irrigation expansion on … (goal 6). It finds that irrigation support policies improve food security globally and can reduce the burden on land by …

The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the … of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly … for income evaluations turns inward. "Financial hardship", the shortfall from one's own previous peak income, takes over …

In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income …, using a number of assumptions, we are able to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility with respect to income. We obtain …

) Does GDP have uniform impact on financial development in heterogeneous income countries? (ii) Is the relationship non …, heterogeneity and endogeneity. They show that GDP has a positive impact on financial development in high and middle-income countries …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …