Selon l’Indice de la faim dans le monde 2012 (GHI), la faim dans le monde a quelque peu diminué depuis 1990 mais reste « grave ». La moyenne mondiale masque des écarts importants entre les régions et les pays. A l’échelle régionale, ce sont l’Asie du Sud et l’Afrique subsaharienne...

In 2009 demographers from the Institute of Economics of the Ural branch of Russian Academy of Sciences worked out the demographic forecast in the context of the “General plan for development of the municipal entity “Ekaterinburgâ€. The paper deals with the scientific approach to...

The notice in the article is taken of the problem of differentiation of urban and rural population reproducing level in Russian regions on the basis of using of total fertility rate (TFR), gross reproduction rate (R), net reproduction rate (Ro). Classification of regions of Russian Federation...

The article deals with the sector approach and socio-economic approach to the formation and development of the transport complex. The attention is paid to the features of the socio-economic approach that revealed the social dimensions of transport sector and to the factors determining the impact...

The paper presents two demographic models. The models are built for population of the Kirov region. The first one is a dynamic model. The second one applies the technique of ageing. By way of the correlation-regression analysis significant factors influencing a birth and death rate factor are...

The paper presents two demographic models. The models are built for population of the Kirov region. The first one is a dynamic model. The second one applies the technique of ageing. By way of the correlation-regression analysis significant factors influencing a birth and death rate factor are...

While current work on socioeconomic inequality in cancer looks at lifetime incidence of cancer, it is more informative to consider survival times: healthy time lived without cancer. This paper uses the rst wave of, and latest longitudinal follow-up to, the Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS) to...