• Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Africa was on the cusp of demographic transition, driven by falling birthrates and rising overall life expectancy. (imf.org)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has undercut human capital accumulation and gender equity. (imf.org)
  • Although the dynamic has suffered from changing circumstances in policy, funding, and the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a valuable accumulation of successful experiences and best practices to build on. (brookings.edu)
  • Despite the pandemic and associated economic downturn it has created an extraordinary feeding frenzy by the property speculators. (links.org.au)
  • long, medium and short-term development policies and strategies taking due account of global development trends, in particular, those of Asia, Central and Northeast Asia, both positive and negative impacts of globalization. (who.int)
  • But what's the evidence, and how clearly can we see the impact of climate change on conflict? (skepticalscience.com)
  • Nevertheless, while it is still possible to avoid irreversible climate change through a massive transformation in the mode of production, it is no longer feasible to circumvent accelerating environmental disasters in the present century on a scale never seen before in human history, endangering the lives and living conditions of billions of people. (transcend.org)
  • Humanity, therefore, is facing issues of ecological survival on two levels: (1) a still reversible but rapidly worsening Earth System crisis, threatening to undermine civilization as a whole and make the planet uninhabitable for the human species, and (2) accelerating extreme weather and other ecological disasters associated with climate change that are now unavoidable in the coming decades, affecting localities and regions throughout the globe. (transcend.org)
  • This introductory article starts from the renewal of development challenges in Africa with regard to the increase in inequalities, climate change, food insecurity, population growth and political conflicts, and questions the effectiveness of public policies. (openscience.fr)
  • Is the Fundamental Cause of Climate Change Capitalist Economic Growth? (manchester.ac.uk)
  • At the same time, It is undeniable that in modern times, the explosive growth of human production and social activities is the reason for the growing intensity of climate change. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • In the natural cycle, climate change is a very long process, and human beings are also flourishing in the relatively stable ecological environment of 12000 years. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • To sum up, capitalism and the development of its capitalist economy are one of the fundamental causes of climate change indirectly, however, just as we cannot deny ourselves, nor can we say that our human existence is wrong. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • For the climate change, Human beings can no longer escape and we should do our best to develop our economy while maintaining a small impact on the environment, and we need to repair the damage that has been caused so that the environmental problems that are now out of balance can be brought under control. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • One is that it is firmly based on modern economic thinking and empirical analysis, in particular endogenous growth. (eh.net)
  • To provide a useful framework we must go beyond the Solow model and Crafts outlines a bare-bones endogenous growth model in which the rate of technological progress, relative to its potential, is conditioned by a country's institutions. (eh.net)
  • The course covers theories of economic growth and models and their application pertaining to contemporary issues of the developing world, such as poverty, income distribution, unemployment, and macroeconomic destabilization. (economicscity.com)
  • Apart from providing an up-to-date account of the macroeconomic dimensions of Britain's growth experience in a comparative perspective, it has three important features. (eh.net)
  • Ultimately, we will help member states harness job opportunities emerging from the advent of newer technologies, while taming challenges to attain outcomes stated in SDG-8---support member states sustain economic growth (8.1), reach high levels of economic productivity (8.2), promote productive activities (8.3), attain full productive employment and decent work for all (8.5) and reduce the number of youth not in employment, education or training (8.6). (un.org)
  • Household outcomes were measured to assess the differential impacts of the two different types of transfers. (theigc.org)
  • The long-term development policy of Mongolia, its priorities, and strategies for their implementation and expected outcomes are defined in the MDG-based Comprehensive National Development Strategy of Mongolia in two phases: first, to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and intensive development of its economy in 2007-2015, and second, to make a transition to knowledge-based economy in 2016-2021. (who.int)
  • There have been such moments in the past, such as the post-war social compromise between capital and labour specific to the social democratic state in the West, the actually existing socialism in the East, and the popular national projects of the South. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Democracy and economic growth and development have had a strong correlative and interactive relationship throughout history. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] While there is no doubt of their existing relationship, whether it being in favor of economic development or democracy, there is no evidence to claim that it is in fact a causal relationship. (wikipedia.org)
  • The processes in associations with peace, social stability and rapid socioeconomic development are not yet fully understood, which may be the reason for a widespread opinion and many hypotheses. (wikipedia.org)
  • The objective of this consultancy is to contribute to the development of the Job Monitor software tool to enhance economic and social analysis of job markets in the Arab region. (un.org)
  • The increase of competitiveness in Mexico depends largely on the development of its human capital nationwide, a process that would benefit from a wide array of cooperative regional projects involving student mobility, research, and short-term practical courses for young students engaged in dual and apprenticeship programs in which corporations and small businesses play a key role. (brookings.edu)
  • Chinese-language journals focus on urban and economic transformation, while English-language journals focus on sustainable development and the circular economy, which are quite different. (frontiersin.org)
  • Their development mainly depends on the exploitation and processing of nonrenewable resources such as minerals, forests, and oil in the region. (frontiersin.org)
  • Resource-based cities have played a vital role in China's economic development. (frontiersin.org)
  • At a time of intensifying climate impacts and speculative increases of food and energy prices, governments, particularly in the Global South, are responding to unsustainable public debts and the lack of development and climate finance, with a rising wave of austerity, subjugation and extractivism. (cadtm.org)
  • The loan conditionalities, policies, and practices endorsed and promoted by the WB and the IMF facilitate the accumulation of unpayable and crippling debts and impose the prioritization of debt payments over human and nature rights, social welfare, sustainable development and climate action. (cadtm.org)
  • The study investigates the impact of foreign direct investing on economic development of post Comecon transition economy countries. (atoom.ru)
  • He then summarizes some of the shortcomings in our global economic system and its impact on the environment, arguing that the emphasis on profits over people promotes a great disparity in wealth and poverty, that the externalization of environmental costs allows for great waste and pollution, and that the short term focus on growth and development comes too often at the expense of long-term sustainability. (bahai-library.com)
  • Why The Green Revolution Was Short Run Phenomena In The Development Process Of Pakistan: A Lesson For Future. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • 5. In Fukuoka we agreed to continue our efforts to strengthen the international financial architecture by focusing on the reform of the IMF and of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), on responses to the challenges posed by Highly Leveraged Institutions (HLIs), Offshore Financial Centers (OFCs) and cross-border capital movements, and on regional cooperation. (utoronto.ca)
  • [2] Karamoja remains the least developed part of the country with lower human development indicators due to limited access to school, poor infrastructure resulting in abject poverty and regional inequality. (grin.com)
  • But we want to go further and assert that the development and maintenance of capitalism as a system that exploits humans is in some ways dependent upon the abuse of animals. (libcom.org)
  • Prosperity' calls for broad-based and sustainable development that results in poverty reduction and growth benefiting even the most marginalized. (unu.edu)
  • Previous researches have proved the positive effect of creative human capital and its development on the development of economy. (hindawi.com)
  • The expansion of the scale of education, development of healthy environment, growth of GDP, development of skill training, and population migration could reduce the input of creative human capital and promote the technical efficiency, while development of trade and institutional change, on the contrary, would block the input of creative human capital and the promotion the technical efficiency. (hindawi.com)
  • Since American economist Schultz put forward Human Capital Theory in 1960s, the Human Capital Theory and its impact on social and economic development are one of the hot research issues for specialists and scholars at home and aboard. (hindawi.com)
  • Human capital usually has greater appreciation of space than material capital and other production factors, especially in the postindustry era and in the stage of rapid economic knowledge development. (hindawi.com)
  • As a "live" capital form, human capital, with its creativity and innovation, has greater value and development potential in the aspects of optimizing allocation of resources or speeding up the economic development and promoting the social progress. (hindawi.com)
  • A lot of researches show that human capital is playing a more and more significant role in the development of national culture or society or economy or employment or income and so on [ 5 - 8 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Participants recognized the benefits of girls' education, including increased self-efficacy and life skills for girls and opportunity for economic development. (springer.com)
  • If virtual worlds do become a large part of the daily life of humans, their development may have an impact on the macroeconomies of Earth. (gamestudies.org)
  • In April 2022, Margaret was appointed chair of the board of directors of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. (blackeconomicalliance.org)
  • Attention is concentrated on defining the aspects of Georgia's competitiveness, evaluating the country's economic performance, and suggesting practical recommendations for reforms and development. (cria-online.org)
  • The main goal is to capture, from amongst the existing methodologies and best practices on the innovation systems concept, the ideas that can enrich our discussion about the instrumental role of NIS in competitiveness-oriented economic development policies in Georgia. (cria-online.org)
  • In this course, students are introduced to the conceptual meaning of economic development while distinguishing it from economic growth and the common characteristics of developing countries. (economicscity.com)
  • The course develops necessary abilities in the students to generalize and apply development economic theories to solve the most pressing problems of the developing world. (economicscity.com)
  • Measurement of Economic Development and Growth. (economicscity.com)
  • National Development Strategy of Mongolia defines in a comprehensive manner its policy for the next fourteen years aimed at promoting human development in Mongolia, in a humane, civil, and democratic society, and developing intensively the country's economy, society, science, technology, culture and civilization in strict compliance with global and regional development trends. (who.int)
  • As the world economic and market relations are influenced by boundless information flow, huge movements of people, goods and services, and, based on that, a totally new context of globalization is emerging, countries around the world started to define their long-term policies for human, social development and economic growth coordinating them closely with global and regional development trends. (who.int)
  • Asia is emerging to become an important global development epicenter in addition to America and Europe, and this process is gaining momentum with rapidly developing economies and growing populations of India and China and attracting due attention of the world. (who.int)
  • But then something happened, and the roads to development, as most people know, has been very different, for example in the case of Chile, Bolivia and Peru versus Norway and Sweden," says Cristián Ducoing, researcher in economic history at Lund University School of Economics and Management. (lu.se)
  • One of the novel things about the recent project is that it takes what is lacking from Divergent Trajectories and provides further evidence on how to follow these countries economic development. (lu.se)
  • The positive changes of democracy to economic growth such as delegation of authority and regulations of social conflicts heavily outweigh the negative and restrictive effects, especially when compared to autocracy. (wikipedia.org)
  • These include improvements in leisure technology, changing social norms, increased drug use, growth in occupational licensing, and the costs and challenges associated with child care. (repec.org)
  • This constitutional principle has guided public policy, investment, diversification of services, and more importantly, the quest for quality, relevance, and connection to social needs and economic growth. (brookings.edu)
  • Capitalist production, therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth-the soil and the worker. (monthlyreview.org)
  • There Marx referred to "the squandering of the vitality of the soil" by large-scale capitalist enterprise, generating "an irreparable rift in the interdependent process of social metabolism, a metabolism prescribed by the natural laws of life itself. (monthlyreview.org)
  • This was visible in the many forms of bonded labor, in the conditions of social reproduction in the patriarchal household, and in the destructive physical impacts and the loss of the vital powers of individual human beings. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Where Dr. Dahl breaks new ground is in his theory of "ecos" - and its application to a wide range of economic constructs and social organizations that lie far beyond the confines of what is traditionally thought of as an ecological system. (bahai-library.com)
  • We provide evidence from the literature that consumption of affluent households worldwide is by far the strongest determinant and the strongest accelerator of increases of global environmental and social impacts. (nature.com)
  • There exists a large body of literature in which the relationship between environmental, resource and social impacts on one hand, and possible explanatory variables on the other, is investigated. (nature.com)
  • In this context, it questions how to adapt a systemic and interactive framework for innovation to strengthen the societal capacities that drive new technological, economic and social trajectories. (openscience.fr)
  • This is enough to show that the rise of capitalism caused the explosive growth of productivity, whether in industry or agriculture, more new technology and human resources input, and participation in social production and activities. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Therefore, Just like the greenhouse effect, human production, transportation, and social activities will bring more greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide and methane. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Serguey Braguinsky is an associate professor at the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business and the Department of Economics, a research associate at the NBER Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program, and professor (cross-appointment) at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University. (umd.edu)
  • The recently published UNU-WIDER study, Making Peace Work: The Challenges of Social and Economic Reconstruction , details how the related goals of peace, prosperity and participation need to be brought together to achieve successful and sustainable reconstruction. (unu.edu)
  • Participation' involves the design and implementation of a post-war social and political decision making processes, to enhance the involvement of all stakeholders in the peace process and to enable prosperous peace building. (unu.edu)
  • This is also the experience of Afghanistan today, where there is an overemphasis on electoral democracy at the expense of other forms of social, political and economic participation. (unu.edu)
  • The general human capital contains social average knowledge stock and the ability of analysis, computing ability, learning ability, and adaptability, and the corresponding social role is the division of ordinary workers. (hindawi.com)
  • Show" (TWIMS), hosted by Robert Breedlove, to talk about his mathematical framework describing how different types of networks, (including biological and social networks) , scale their growth over time. (onbuzz.net)
  • In his book, West uses the lens of a biological organism's metabolic rate and applies the concept to understand the metabolic rate of human social networks - namely cities, economies and companies - and their overall temporal sustainability in the context of the limits of thermodynamics and network adaptation. (onbuzz.net)
  • In doing so, he weaves together biology, physics and information science to analyze humanity's current economic trajectory and what this might imply for our collective future amid the staggering amount of social and technological change we have already begun to witness. (onbuzz.net)
  • Whereas the impact of globalization is being debated, there is a broad-based recognition that the role of the State has to be redefined to take account of the emerging political, economic, social and cultural challenges. (cria-online.org)
  • Manufacturing Sector and the process of Structural transformation in Libyan Economy. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Furthermore the movement that abolishes capitalism by changing the relations between humans - communism - also involves a fundamental transformation of the relations between humans and animals. (libcom.org)
  • Hunting also saw the earliest traces of the transformation of free human activity into something resembling work. (libcom.org)
  • Any transition towards sustainability can only be effective if far-reaching lifestyle changes complement technological advancements. (nature.com)
  • West and Breedlove covered the former's bestselling book "Scale: The Universal Laws Of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, And The Pace Of Life In Organisms, Cities, Economies And Companies. (onbuzz.net)
  • Prior to joining Vistria, Margaret was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where she was the Global Head of Sustainability and Impact for Asset Management and Chair of the Urban Investment Group (GSUIG), the first impact investing platform at a major U.S. financial institution and Goldman Sachs' primary impact investing business. (blackeconomicalliance.org)
  • Neoclassical growth theory model is used to analyze the effects of FDI on economic growth. (atoom.ru)
  • This paper seeks to apply Human Capital Theory and Human Rights approach to critically analyse benefits of basic education in poverty reduction and realisation of regional equality in Northern Uganda. (grin.com)
  • As mentioned in the theory of the limits to growth,human civilizations can avoid the disorderly collapse through a smoother transition and planned adaptation. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • A significant pioneer in the field is Ilya Prigogine, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977 for his work on non-equilibrium thermodynamics for developing "a theory about dissipative structures, which maintains that long before a state of equilibrium is reached in irreversible processes, orderly and stable systems can arise from more disordered systems. (onbuzz.net)
  • However, for capitalism, Polychroniou (2018) pointed out that The accumulation of capital is everything. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • The result of this was the hegemonic transition of power and the extermination of thousands of people (Barroco, Matos, & Orso, 2018). (bvsalud.org)
  • As we advance in the context of USMCA towards the integration of supply chains in high tech manufacturing and other sectors of our economies, more human talent will be needed, and more of our young people will have unprecedented opportunities to be creative and progress through a trajectory of professional and personal achievement. (brookings.edu)
  • Leonid Melnyk, Oleksandr Kubatko, Serhiy Pysarenko The impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth: case of post communism transition economies // Problems and Perspectives in Management. (atoom.ru)
  • However, existing societies, economies and cultures incite consumption expansion and the structural imperative for growth in competitive market economies inhibits necessary societal change. (nature.com)
  • If yes, 2) how can we use this fact to explain theoretically the existence of a differential impact of population change on economic growth across countries? (repec.org)
  • Finding effective ways to mitigate and remove such barriers is essential in combating extreme poverty and helping households work themselves up the economic ladder. (theigc.org)
  • The paper further identifies indicators of poverty and inequality and analyses the nature of these indicators with respect to education in Northern Uganda and Finally the paper analyses the economic implication of these indicators on education as well as the implication on the rights of children to education in the region. (grin.com)
  • Democracy is associated with higher human capital accumulation, lower inflation, lower political instability, and higher economic freedom. (wikipedia.org)
  • The recent increases in interest rates imposed by the Federal Reserve to prevent inflation have been criticized for threatening the economic recovery, especially since inflation has barely increased. (nybooks.com)
  • At the end of March 2021, the Government announced measures to tweak this system by capturing some of the capital gain of some of these speculators with changes to the so-called "bright line" test for tax liability, and reducing the ability to deduct interest off their loans against rental income over the next four years. (links.org.au)
  • The paradox of the circular economy is that it seems to offer radical challenges to linear "take-make-waste" models of industrial capitalism, backed by international legislation, but it does not actually give up on unsustainable growth. (mit.edu)
  • Consequently, for human beings, we inevitably have to mention capitalism. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • In order to maximize profits, capitalism will not hesitate to creatively destroy the earth and constantly expropriate the natural environment, which is considered as a free gift to capital. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • It is precise because capitalism only pursues profit and capital accumulation that it is easier to destroy the entire ecological environment, and the fact is the same. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • However, the scale, militancy and global scope of the struggle reflects not simply revulsion at Trump and the accumulation of anger over police racism, but also a more general sense of crisis eroding the stability of capitalism. (isj.org.uk)
  • This, therefore, led to the growth and accumulation of capital and the overproduction of goods that culminated, in 1929, in the greatest crisis in the history of capitalism and in the outbreak of wars, such as the Second World War, the Cold War, and many other conflicts between countries in the years that followed. (bvsalud.org)
  • Population aging is widely assumed to have detrimental effects on economic growth yet there is little empirical evidence about the magnitude of its effects. (repec.org)
  • Biodiversity and economic growth: stabilization versus preservation of the ecological dynamics. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The challenges are clear: Can we return to an analog of a more 'ecological' phase from which we evolved and be satisfied with some version of sublinear scaling and its attendant natural limiting, or no-growth, stable configuration? (onbuzz.net)
  • In the present study the case of Paliyan tribe is taken up to assess the impact of changing ecology and economy and the extent of developmental process initiated by both government and non-government agencies to bring them into the national mainstream along with the degree. (bibliaimpex.com)
  • We review and summarise those studies that holistically assess the impact of human activities, in the sense that impacts are not restricted to the home, city, or territory of the individuals, but instead are counted irrespective of where they occur. (nature.com)
  • Two-thirds of the reduction is due to slower growth in the labor productivity of workers across the age distribution, while one-third arises from slower labor force growth. (repec.org)
  • So the conflict is between monopoly capital and workers and people who are invited to an unconditional surrender. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • In the face of war declared by monopoly capital, workers and peoples must develop strategies that allow them to take the offensive. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • He has written extensively about the Meiji-Era Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry and has published in leading economics and management journals, such as American Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Economic History, and Review of Economic Dynamics. (umd.edu)
  • Researchers suspected that these complementarities might drive the magnitude of impacts produced by the graduation approach. (theigc.org)
  • When the Bretton Wood fixed rates system came to an end in 1971, the main function of the IMF became that of being both policeman and fireman for global capital: it acts as policeman when it enforces its Structural Adjustment Policies and as fireman when it steps in to help out governments in risk of defaulting on debt repayments. (cadtm.org)
  • The effects of information communication technology on the terms of trade between north-south countries: a structural economic dynamic approach. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Finally, for the transformationalists, chief among them being Rosenau and Giddens, contemporary patterns of globalization are conceived of as historically unprecedented, such that states and societies across the globe are experiencing a process of profound change as they try to adapt to a more interconnected but highly uncertain world. (cria-online.org)
  • Control of anthrax among humans depends on the integration of veterinary and human health surveillance and control programmes. (who.int)
  • Generally, the formation of human capital mainly depends on the input of education, health and income, and so forth [ 10 , 11 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The impact of technological and organizational changes on labor flows. (repec.org)
  • The book explores the reasons for the diverging paths taken by these two groups of countries and examined the consequences for welfare and economic stability. (lu.se)
  • In the first part of the article we document empirically the considerable across-countries heterogeneity of a dilution effect of population growth also in regard to the process of per-capita human capital formation and observe that, at a country's level, population growth may be relevant (either positively or negatively) for economic growth depending on the specific way it affects the process of schooling-acquisition by agents. (repec.org)
  • The period of Ancient Greece 4th century B.C. and later of the Roman Empire marks the beginning not only of democracy, but as well as its connection to economic growth. (wikipedia.org)
  • A 2008 meta-analysis found that democracy has no direct effect on economic growth. (wikipedia.org)
  • Democracy is closely tied with economic sources of growth, like education levels and lifespan through improvement of educative institutions as well as healthcare. (wikipedia.org)
  • both dictatorship and democracy can be associated with economic success, as well as with failure. (unu.edu)
  • Furthermore, the political changes implemented to promote democracy could trigger violence that then stalls the democratic process. (unu.edu)
  • The "resource curse": countries with an abundance of natural resources having less economic growth and less democracy than countries with fewer natural resources. (lu.se)
  • This paper starts from the observation that many U.S. states have already experienced substantial growth in the size of their older population and much of this growth was predetermined by historical trends in fertility. (repec.org)
  • We use predicted variation in the rate of population aging across U.S. states over the period 1980-2010 to estimate the economic impact of aging on state output per capita. (repec.org)
  • Our results imply annual GDP growth will slow by 1.2 percentage points this decade and 0.6 percentage points next decade due to population aging. (repec.org)
  • This paper answers the following two questions: 1) In the data, can we find a dilution effect of population growth also on per-capita human capital investment? (repec.org)
  • In the second part of the paper we use these results in order to build a multi-sector growth model which is capable of accounting (depending on the strength of the found dilution effect of population growth on per-capita human capital formation) for the non-monotonous correlation between demographic and economic growth rates in the long-run. (repec.org)
  • With the continuous exploitation of resources, the recoverable reserves of some cities have reached 70% of the recoverable reserves, which has a huge impact on the local environment, population, and economy. (frontiersin.org)
  • With the establishment of the capitalistic system, the growth of population and productivity is inevitable. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • According to the limits to growth, the growth of population and economy was inevitable. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Democratic regimes revolve around institutions and policies which lay the foundations, through which principles of liberty and equality are designed and followed, thus directly or indirectly affecting firms or individuals who benefit from the directives and increase their growth, which in turn has a positive impact on economy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Humans generally acquire the disease directly or indirectly from infected animals, or through occupational exposure to infected or contaminated animal products. (who.int)
  • thus it indirectly promotes economic growth. (hindawi.com)
  • Crafts argues that technological progress in the modern sectors made a large contribution to the modest growth rate, both directly and indirectly through increasing the rate of capital formation. (eh.net)
  • Much of these spawned widespread civilian uses, such as aviation, the internet and nuclear technologies, thus contributing in a major way to the support for endless capital accumulation and the increasing centralization of capitalist power in relation to a captive market. (versobooks.com)
  • The same basic logic was present in the other famous passage on the metabolic rift, at the end of the chapter on "The Genesis of Capitalist Ground Rent" in the third volume of Capital . (monthlyreview.org)
  • 4 The expropriation of nature in capitalist society thus had its counterpart, in Marx's analysis, in the expropriation of human bodily existence. (monthlyreview.org)
  • This has become urgent due to the global economic downturn, which has highlighted the economic interdependence in today's world and reinforced the need for a concerted global economic effort. (cria-online.org)
  • Smith answers that the individual, in the process of providing for personal interests, unintentionally contributes to the economic wellbeing of society. (cliffsnotes.com)
  • The resulting hypoalbuminemia contributes to extravascular fluid accumulation. (medscape.com)
  • This book sketches a road map of privatisation, accumulation and dispossession of communal land in the tribal areas of North East India from pre-colonial times to the neo-liberal era. (bibliaimpex.com)
  • The book refers to data from an ongoing cohort study, started in New Delhi in 1969, and finds that growth monitoring can have great intergenerational impact in India, where both childhood and adult morbidity are very high. (bibliaimpex.com)
  • In this paper, we highlight the measurement of environmental impacts of consumption, while noting that multiple actors bear responsibility. (nature.com)
  • The Human Capital Index, which measures children's future productivity relative to a benchmark of full health and complete education, increased in nearly all sub-Saharan countries from 2010 to 2020 (Chart 1). (imf.org)
  • Labor market policies and regulations are mostly outdated and unprepared for the impact of automation on jobs in most ESCWA countries. (un.org)
  • The results show significant FDI influence on economic growth of host countries. (atoom.ru)
  • For developing countries foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be a way to transfer technology and capital from other developing and especially developed countries. (atoom.ru)
  • Since it was first reported in Vietnam in 2003, the disease has been responsible for human outbreaks and deaths in 15 countries in Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa resulting in 603 human cases including 356 deaths. (who.int)
  • Crafts also stresses that the potential for growth varies widely, both across countries and especially over time, so that slow growth in one era may represent better performance, relative to potential, than fast growth in another. (eh.net)
  • Nordic and Andean countries started their economic modernisation in the same way: with export of raw natural resources. (lu.se)
  • However, it has strong and significant indirect effects which contribute to growth. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, allocating impacts to consumers does not necessarily imply a systemic causal understanding of which actor should be held most responsible for these impacts. (nature.com)
  • Cultivating fear (both fake and real) of the Soviets and Communism was instrumental to this politics The economic consequence has been wave after wave of technological and organizational innovation in military hardware. (versobooks.com)
  • The increasing militarization of the US economy after 1945 also went hand in hand with the production of greater economic inequality and the formation of a ruling oligarchy within the USA as well as elsewhere (even in Russia). (versobooks.com)
  • Keeping insolvent banks alive with capital infusions from the government merely postpones the inevitable failure of a large segment of the US banking industry, while damaging the rest of the economy. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The most likely outcome is relatively simple, yet it is one that would be harrowing to most Americans: the US economy - that which has fueled growth throughout the world for over a century-is presently on the verge of collapse. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • We are confident in his commitment to addressing the racial wealth gap through bold policy solutions that will improve economic mobility for Black Americans -- solutions BEA is excited to bring to the table to benefit Black Americans and grow the entire American economy. (blackeconomicalliance.org)
  • The Reserve Bank emergency measures to rescue the economy from the threatened economic collapse was directed at rescuing the wealth of the owners of Big Business not meeting the needs of the big majority of working people. (links.org.au)
  • To prevent the death of the patient and to facilitate recovery, it is absolutely necessary, in medical parlance, to first amputate the diseased limbs of the US economic engine. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Rising prosperity provides scope for accumulation outside the realm of politics. (unu.edu)
  • Widely used and disseminated as a key concept within international organizations, as well as a current economic policy instrument, the National Innovation System (NIS) makes it possible to identify the actors involved in the innovation process in a national context, while highlighting the learning relationships between these actors. (openscience.fr)
  • Secondly, we analyze the innovation behavior by distinguishing product versus process innovator and single versus complex innovator. (openscience.fr)
  • Many attempts at technological innovation have been made in the production and processing of agricultural products to meet the food needs of populations. (openscience.fr)
  • In other words, a country that undergoes democratization does not have to necessarily experience economic growth, most often measured in income per capita, or vice versa. (wikipedia.org)
  • The differences among education investment, health investment, and family economic income invariably tend to raise up the differences of human capital stock directly [ 12 , 13 ], while the differences of human capital will lead to the differences of their effects. (hindawi.com)
  • In both instances, Marx's notion of the robbery of the soil is intrinsically connected to the rift in the metabolism between human beings and the earth. (monthlyreview.org)
  • For Marx, as for Liebig, this robbery was not of course confined simply to external nature, since humans as corporeal beings were themselves part of nature. (monthlyreview.org)
  • For the majority of human beings the consequence is a life dominated by work, half-lived in schools, factories, offices and prisons. (libcom.org)
  • The fifth scenario (SSP5-8.5) points to an increase in the global average temperature of 4.4°C (best estimate)-spelling the collapse of civilization and absolute disaster for the human species. (transcend.org)
  • This environmental problem has become the focus of public opinion in contemporary society, stemming from its increasing severity, while threatening the global human civilization and all species on earth. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Industry observers recommend additional process steps to improve the investment climate, including conducting Regulatory Impact Analyses and soliciting substantive feedback from a broad range of stakeholders, including foreign investors. (state.gov)
  • It's becoming increasingly obvious, more widely acknowledged and rapidly being operationalized that human nature lies at the root of our problems with climate. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Margaret is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on equitable access to capital having invested over $10 billion across hundreds of transactions throughout the United States and was named one of the most influential figures in U.S. commercial real estate by Commercial Observer. (blackeconomicalliance.org)
  • Entrepreneurship has, for many reasons, an increasingly important role to play in this process. (unu.edu)
  • Margaret has devoted her career to investing which not only generates strong economic returns, but importantly has a demonstrable positive impact on underserved individuals, families, and communities. (blackeconomicalliance.org)
  • [ 6 ] Serum zinc levels correlated closely with the presence of edema, stunted growth, and severe wasting. (medscape.com)
  • Its contribution can be immense, given the impact on the future generation of Indians. (bibliaimpex.com)
  • IMF) that, together with other private and public lenders, perpetuate a flawed international financial architecture that exacerbates debt, climate, and economic crises, violating the basic needs and rights of millions of people and nature who have the least contribution, responsibility or control over these catastrophes. (cadtm.org)
  • Schultz claimed that the contribution to economic growth from the improvement of human capital such as human's knowledge or ability and health is more important than the increase of material force and the number of labor [ 9 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Half a century of scholarship has revised down the pace of productivity growth and put its onset further back in time. (eh.net)
  • A substantial setback relative to the U.S. over the First World War was followed by productivity growth, which, while respectable relative to previous performance, fell further behind the United States. (eh.net)
  • Studies have shown that the effects of human capital that received higher education, on individual performance, total productivity, technological progress, economic growth, and international trade, are significantly greater than the human capital which received secondary education and basic education [ 14 - 18 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Continuous growth and the consequent ever-increasing acceleration of the pace of life have profound consequences for the entire planet… This is surely not sustainable, and, if nothing changes, we are heading for a major crash and a potential collapse of the entire socioeconomic fabric. (onbuzz.net)
  • The affluent citizens of the world are responsible for most environmental impacts and are central to any future prospect of retreating to safer environmental conditions. (nature.com)
  • fostering a democratic system of governance, which serves its citizens, protects human rights and freedoms, and is free from corruption and red tape. (who.int)
  • Shena Ashley, PhD became the head of programs within the Community Impact and Investment team at Capital One and President of the Insights Center and the Capital One Foundation in May 2022. (blackeconomicalliance.org)
  • Such an absolute catastrophe for civilization and the human species as a whole is still avoidable with a revolutionary-scale reconstitution of the current system of production, consumption, and energy usage, though the time in which to act is rapidly running out. (transcend.org)
  • Features of chronic malnutrition include stunted growth, mental apathy, developmental delay, and poor weight gain. (medscape.com)
  • Increased productivity of existing labor force and economic growth. (grin.com)
  • The Autumn economic forecasts by the Commission are marked by slow growth and high but relatively stable unemployment (24.6 million people). (europa.eu)
  • Nicholas Crafts, Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back: British Economic Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Financial Crisis . (eh.net)
  • One implication is to downgrade economic progress outside of the glamour industries of the industrial revolution: textiles and iron. (eh.net)
  • This correlation is true in all 7 African who became new democracies after 2000 or were approaching an election following previous electoral performance combined with an economic recession. (wikipedia.org)
  • From this notion unfolds an approach that might help humanity better understand and manage the problems it faces in the transition from the industrial to the information age. (bahai-library.com)
  • We are rapidly approaching a planetary tipping point in the form of a climate Armageddon, threatening to make the earth unlivable for the human species, as well as innumerable other species. (transcend.org)