This study examines the effects of health expenditure, energy consumption, CO2 emissions,
population size, and income on health outcomes in 46 Asian nations between 1997 and …

Background Accelerated globalisation has substantially contributed to the rise of emerging
markets worldwide. The G7 and Emerging Markets Seven (EM7) behaved in significantly …

Since man first forged metal tools and started farming for his food, thus emerging from the
stone age, no event in human history has had a greater impact than the Industrial Revolution …

This paper examines the relationship between workforce demographics and aggregate
productivity. Changes in the age structure of the workforce are found to be significantly …

In recent years, the interrelationships between the environment, energy, and health have
received a growing amount of attention due to their substantial impact on the health of …

Various studies have investigated the population-growth dynamics and the human capital-
growth dynamics without assessing the human capital-population-growth dynamics in a …

This book makes a compelling case for reintegrating structural issues into agricultural and
rural development policies, which have for the last 30 years over-focused on short-term …

Using a compiled data set of 441 censuses and surveys from between 1787 and 2015,
representing 103 countries and 51.4 million mothers, we find that:(i) the effect of fertility on …

We investigate the effect of the informal sector and a range of governance indicators on both
global and local pollutants for a panel of 58 countries during 1996–2011. The analysis …

Poverty in Africa is largely the outcome of slow growth. With the region hosting 10 percent of
the world's population but a staggering 30 percent of the world's poor, the challenges it faces …