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"One of the major social policy issues facing the U.S. in the first decade of the 21st century is the large number of Americans lacking health insurance. This article surveys the major economic issues around covering the uninsured. I review the facts on insurance coverage and the nature of the...
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"The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and it was in 2014 halved compared to 1990, and now … the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is to a high degree the consequence of the … rapid economic development in a few countries, especially China, but in many countries around the globe poverty is still …
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The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...
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