In this paper, I examine differentials in under-five mortality for the state of São Paulo, Brazil, between urban and rural areas and by location within urban areas over a 21-year period between 1970 and 1991. I also investigate economic inequalities in under-five mortality for urban areas....

This work shows a brief overview of the main approaches to coordination of industrial and territorial development in foreign countries. Analysis of documents of strategic planning reveals that in the last time more countries have cluster initiatives aimed at solution of several tasks of economic...

Development of village, micro and small enterprises in India has a special significance with regard to bridging up the disparities between urban and rural sectors of the economy on the one hand and the more industrialized and the less industrialized states on the other. It would also channelize...

This paper, using data from the 2000 Iran Demographic and Health Survey and a range of time-varying district-level contextual information derived from the 1986 and 1996 censuses of Iran, applies a discrete time hazard model to study ethnic differences in women’s transition to first...

It has long been recognized that the patterns of growth play an important role in the evolution of age trajectories of fertility and mortality (Williams, 1957). Life history studies would benefit from a better understanding of strategies and mechanisms of growth, but still no comparative...

In this study, based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework, we empirically examine the effects of trade openness and the level of economic development on pollution emission across the Chinese provinces. Our regression analysis shows that increasing trade openness contributes to...

Lifelong learning is a concept with a goal to increase an adaptation level of a person towards the changing conditions of social environment. It had its own impulse after applying to personnel of modern organizations. Additional development of criteria and procedures was made in this field....

The financial system of the country after the destruction of the administrative management has become the main regulatory institution of the reproduction process on macro-, meso - and microeconomic levels and formed with account of the realities of globalization. At the same time, the financial...

The development of the Russian banking system is divided into several stages after the systemic crisis of 1998. Each stage is characterized by a variety of external parameters and directly implemented strategies and monetary policy, policy in the field of attraction of funds, the development of...