Regional economic disparities are often regarded as signs of a country's uneven or backward development. After analyzing China's regional economic performances from 2003 to 2007, this paper concludes that the emergence of interior regions provides new momentum for China's economic growth, and...

In this paper we consider the impact of Human Development Index and Environmental Health on sustainable development in 178 observed countries. We focus on the necessity of multidisciplinary approaches that estimate and predict how selected indicators such as:(1) Improved sanitation facilities (%...