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DIAGNÓSTICO E RECOMENDAÇÕES PARA AUMENTO DA COMPETITIVIDADE DA CADEIA PRODUTIVA DA CARNE BOVINA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO
Filho, Hildo Meirelles De Souza; Rosa, Fabiano Tito; … - 2008
revisão do sistema tributário.-------------------------------------------Brazil is the main player in the beef world market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445229
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438517
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Income Inequality and Racial/Ethnic Infant Mortality in the United States
Jesmin, Syeda Sarah - 2008
environment interpretation of the income inequality and health link. The hypotheses examined were that race …/ethnicity-specific IMRs are influenced by intra-race/ethnicity income inequality, and that these effects of income inequality on health are … National Center for Health Statistics Linked Birth Infant Death database, 2000 U.S. Census, and 2000 General Social Survey, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475004
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Implications of Inertia for Assessing Drug Control Policy: Why Upstream Interventions May Not Receive Due Credit
Caulkins, Jonathan P. - 2007
Background: There is ongoing interest in assessing the effectiveness of various drug control strategies, including policy intended to reduce initiation and prevalence. Compartmental models of trajectories of drug use have been developed that demonstrate that drug “systems” display...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441060
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Implications of Inertia for Assessing Drug Control Policy: Why Upstream Interventions May Not Receive Due Credit
Caulkins, Jonathan - 2007
Background: There is ongoing interest in assessing the effectiveness of various drug control strategies, including policy intended to reduce initiation and prevalence. Compartmental models of trajectories of drug use have been developed that demonstrate that drug “systems” display...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441090
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Time Preference and Its Relationship with Age, Health, and Longevity Expectations
Chao, Li-wei; Szrek, Helena; Pereira, Nuno Sousa; … - 2007
Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439141
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Voices of the Poor: Poverty and Growth in Albania
Tsaneva, Magda - 2007
analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474975
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Voices of the Poor: Poverty and Growth in Albania
Tsaneva, Magda - 2007
analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474985
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Malaria and National Income: Examining a Two Way Causal Relationship
Datta, Saurabh; Reimer, Jeffrey J. - 2010
Simple plots of data show that malaria has a negative correlation with national income per capita, whether looking across countries at a point in time, or looking at a single country over time. Some countries have been able to move from an equilibrium characterized by low income and high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446098
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A Comparison of Methodologies for Valuing Decreased Health Effects from Wildfire Smoke
Richardson, Leslie; Loomis, John B.; Champ, Patricia A. - 2010
of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke using a simple cost of illness approach and for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446107