Since its first occurance in January 2020 COVID-19 has spread globally. In order to contrain the COVID 19, China has adopted a zero-covid policy and consequently contributed to local economic crises in the form of slowed industry growth. Consequentily in the first Quarter of 2020, this crisis...

Purpose - The key challenge that urban cities in most developing and transitional economies is confronting is municipal solid waste (MSW) management. Waste separation is a critical component to successful recycling management in terms of enhancing the quality of recyclables, reducing MSW and...

We utilize data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to study borrowing decisions and other factors related to the run-up in housing prices in 1999-2007, their precipitous decline in 2007-2009, and how they contributed to mortgage distress and foreclosures as of 2009-2011. Difficulties...