• Explore the key factors of production driving economic growth for small and large businesses. (mailchimp.com)
  • Keep reading to learn more about factors of production and how they can help your business and the economy achieve sustainable growth . (mailchimp.com)
  • By recognizing how these factors interact, businesses can identify opportunities for innovation, areas for improvement, and strategies for growth. (mailchimp.com)
  • Against the background of inconclusive evidence about the inequality-growth relation, this paper suggests that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections and that this increasing inequality negatively affects economic growth. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • a) Hirschman (1958) argued that foreign capital has positive growth effects because it bridges the savings gap in developing countries. (ipl.org)
  • He reasoned that FDI has the ability to propel an economy on a natural growth process. (ipl.org)
  • This accumulation of capital would then lead to growth. (ipl.org)
  • Foreign investors on the other hand were innovative and detached from the government's reluctance to engage in large capital projects that lead to dynamic growth. (ipl.org)
  • Technological change and catch-up and capital deepening: Relative contributions to growth and convergence: comment," Economics Bulletin , vol. 15(3), pp. 1-8. (socialcapitalgateway.org)
  • Effects of income inequality on growth through efficiency improvement and capital accumulation," International Economic Journal . (socialcapitalgateway.org)
  • It starts with a stylized model for the dynamics of development that derives a Kuznets type relation between growth and distribution of income, determined by the quality of leadership, the policy making process, institutions, and policies. (worldbank.org)
  • This framework is applied to Chile, identifying the features of the policy making process and leadership that allowed for continuation of growth enhancing reform, with a stronger focus on equity goals, since the transition to democracy. (worldbank.org)
  • Chile's total factor productivity growth can be raised by driving within-firm technological change closer to the global best-practice frontier more rapidly, especially in manufacturing. (worldbank.org)
  • The over-all effects have slowed down world economic growth in the in-flow of global capital (FDI) and world trade. (dailymirror.lk)
  • It shows that the capability of the knowledge-based growth model to deliver its expected benefits to these areas crucially depends on tackling a specific set of socio-institutional factors which prevents innovation from being effectively translated into economic growth. (eui.eu)
  • A stable and democratic political system, human capital accumulation, and the diffusion of new technologies such as IT, would, Dr Kelkar argued, see double digit growth rates in India for the foreseeable future. (hindustantimes.com)
  • The co-ordinates in India for a high growth trajectory were strong, he said, but there were some worrying exogenous factors, such as the likely course of the world's most powerful economy-the USA. (hindustantimes.com)
  • In this research, we carried out a series of phytoplankton cultures to determine the optimum time of growth and biodiesel synthesis process from phytoplankton lipids. (hindawi.com)
  • Accumulation of lipids in the microalgae cells, as well as for other oleaginous microorganisms (high oil producers), depends on diverse factors, such as growth temperature, pH, availability of micronutrients, salinity, and other factors [ 6 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The rise of its middle class is likely to aid not only the growth process, but also result in substantial social, political, and environmental changes. (riazhaq.com)
  • In turn, this requires understanding and analyzing the characteristics of the middle class, the factors contributing to its growth, and the various implications-positive and negative-of its rise. (riazhaq.com)
  • It is commonly believed that accumulation of human capital (HC) and availability of physical and financial capitals are among the major determinants of economic growth. (iza.org)
  • [ 2 ] His second insight was that growth was driven not only by factor accumulation but also by technological progress. (europa.eu)
  • In the contemporary theory of economic growth, growth is mainly a function of two elements: the savings ratio and the capital coefficient. (iire.org)
  • i If a country saves 12 per cent of its national income, and the capital coefficient is 4:1 (meaning four billion Marks must be invested to increase the national income by one billion), the rate of growth of the national income will be 3 per cent per year. (iire.org)
  • The substantial resurgence of monkeypox in Nigeria in 2017 appears to have been driven by a combination of population growth, accumulation of unvaccinated cohorts, and decline in smallpox vaccine immunity. (cdc.gov)
  • Zorbtive ® is a recombinant human growth hormone indicated for the treatment of short bowel syndrome in adult patients receiving specialized nutritional support. (nih.gov)
  • In order to develop a critical analysis of the current capitalist expropriation of world ecology, it is necessary to explore the concept of natural capital in the work of Marx and other early radical critics within classical political economy. (monthlyreview.org)
  • After an abstract discussion of knowledge as a process, this paper discusses the implications for the overall structure of capitalist economy, concluding that the emancipatory claims for the knowledge economy are overstated. (sociology.org)
  • In short, the capitalist production relations themselves hinder the self-expansion of capital. (sinistra.net)
  • The reasons for this are wide-ranging: from the fact that governments, despite ostensibly shifting their agenda during the COVID-19 pandemic to "saving humans," remain committed to capitalist priorities, to the fact that tech industries are emerging during the pandemic as the major driving forces (be it cloud infrastructure, fintech, or platform-driven services as varied as online learning and food supply). (issuu.com)
  • This distinction is already by itself significant because it gives insight into the long-term reproduction of the basic conditions of a capitalist economy: its division into owners and non-owners of means of production, wealth and capital. (iire.org)
  • Its usefulness depends on human efforts. (proprofs.com)
  • For example, the probability that an individual will develop dementia depends on the accumulation of risk and protective factors during the life course. (medscape.com)
  • Control of anthrax among humans depends on the integration of veterinary and human health surveillance and control programmes. (who.int)
  • Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development (NBER Working Paper No. 17058). (uni-muenchen.de)
  • From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality and the Process of Development. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Inequality, Human Capital and Development: Making the Theory Face the Facts (MPRA Paper No. 18973). (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The effects of inequality, fragmentation, and social capital on collective action in a homogeneous society: Analyzing responses to the 2005 Japan Census," Journal of Socio-Economics, vol. 37(5), pp. 2054-2058. (socialcapitalgateway.org)
  • World map showing the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index in 2019. (wikipedia.org)
  • This index captures the level of human development when inequality is accounted for. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, the notion of "natural capital" was viewed in terms of the stock of physical properties and natural-material use values constituting real wealth and was seen as opposed to the growing "sense of capitalism" as a system of mere exchange value or cash nexus. (monthlyreview.org)
  • This nineteenth-century notion of "natural capital," conceived in physical, use-value terms, was to be revived in the 1970s and '80s as part of an emerging ecological critique. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The United Nations definition of inclusive wealth is a monetary measure which includes the sum of natural, human, and physical assets. (wikipedia.org)
  • Physical (or "manufactured") capital includes such things as machinery, buildings, and infrastructure. (wikipedia.org)
  • The war must end now , yet the devastation continues even today with loss of human life and livelihoods, destruction of physical infrastructure, refugees seeking haven in neighboring states, and a growing population of internally displaced persons (IDPs). (worldbank.org)
  • This can represent a spectrum of pulmonary lesions, endothelial and epithelial, due to numerous factors (physical, chemical, or biological). (nih.gov)
  • Amyloidosis results from the accumulation of pathogenic amyloids-most of which are aggregates of misfolded proteins-in a variety of tissues. (medscape.com)
  • The highly pathogenic avian influenza is a highly contagious disease affecting wild birds and poultry with occasional infections in human. (who.int)
  • The ruling classes thought that by abolishing all of the obstacles to the development of commercial exchanges and to the free circulation of capital they had finally achieved conditions for the stability of capitalism and had driven away the spectre of the convulsions which periodically paralysed the whole productive machine. (sinistra.net)
  • With its massive destruction's of capital, the blood bath of the second imperialist conflict had been a true shower of youth for world capitalism. (sinistra.net)
  • The latter would mean pushing "capitalism as a selfrunning machine" further towards independence from humans in general and human labor in particular. (issuu.com)
  • Meaning: "capitalism as a self-running machine" was never independent of human labor, but dependent on the devaluation, decomposition, and, ultimately, dehumanization of labor. (issuu.com)
  • What makes a distinction of human beings from animals is not only that they work spontaneously and expressly but also that they work consciously for one another (Brennan, 2017). (grin.com)
  • This book is a history of debt, then, but it also uses that history as a way to ask fundamental questions about what human beings and human society are or could be like " (p. 18). (libcom.org)
  • Land is a natural resource and is not produced by human beings. (proprofs.com)
  • There are many contributory verses that guide and lay down the economic and financial principles, to human beings as individuals or collectively as a society or as a nation. (islamic-banking.com)
  • Who would have been driven the whole of human beings first appear on many levels, it does not necessarily permanently fixed, however, since 60 per cent freezer space. (wileywiggins.com)
  • Our paper aims to advance the existing empirical literature on the relationship between international factor mobility and domestic accumulation of HC in developing countries. (iza.org)
  • Aquaculture is an important component of the human diet, providing high-quality aquatic food for global or local consumption. (mdpi.com)
  • Each of these factors determines a business's capacity to produce goods and services, dictating the availability of resources, efficiency of production, and potential for innovation. (mailchimp.com)
  • Entrepreneurship and innovation is the factor that brings the resources together, combining land, labor, and capital to produce goods and services. (mailchimp.com)
  • Chile confronts obstacles in its processes of innovation, human capital accumulation, and investment. (worldbank.org)
  • An in-depth comparative analysis with the United States is also included, providing significant insights into the distinctive features of the European process of innovation and its territorial determinants. (eui.eu)
  • Human Capital, Heterogeneity and Estimated Degrees of Intergenerational Mobility. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The paper draws on the cases of Guatemala, Liberia and Nepal to shows that where the state fails to meet its human rights obligations including the functions of security and basic needs the compact between the state and citizens breaks down, but to meet these obligations requires institutional and financial capacity. (humansecuritygateway.com)
  • ALI, 2015 explained the globalization as a process of rapid economic, cultural, and institutional integration among countries. (civilserviceindia.com)
  • The concepts of digital government that are relevant to organizational and institutional change arise from three fields of study: political science, organization theory (including social capital), and interactions of technology and organizational structure. (cdc.gov)
  • This association is driven by the liberalization of trade, investment and capital flow, technological advances, and pressures for assimilation towards international standards. (civilserviceindia.com)
  • Defining wealth can be a normative process with various ethical implications, since often wealth maximization is seen as a goal or is thought to be a normative principle of its own. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wealth has been defined as a collection of things limited in supply, transferable, and useful in satisfying human desires. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scarcity is a fundamental factor for wealth. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wealth' refers to some accumulation of resources (net asset value), whether abundant or not. (wikipedia.org)
  • However greater middle class wealth and consumption is only one factor in the region's increasing importance. (riazhaq.com)
  • The chapter also discusses several factors that are likely to affect income and wealth. (nih.gov)
  • These savings do not lead to the purchase of means of production or accumulation of wealth and only among a part of the working class does such saving lead to home ownership. (iire.org)
  • Only among those social classes who are either already owners of capital, or who are in the process of primitive accumulation of capital, does saving lead to the acquisition of wealth, meaning new capital that is not used up wholly in consumption in over a period of, let's say, 20 years. (iire.org)
  • In most developing countries , parents often determine and fund human capital , which makes household wealth/ income a critical factor in human capital accumulation and its intergenerational process. (bvsalud.org)
  • This paper utilizes an approach derived from Marx's method of analysis in Capital, viewing knowledge and information as discrete moments in the process of production and value creation. (sociology.org)
  • This text was Ernest Mandel's contribution to a colloquium on the occasion of the centenary of Marx's Capital, organized by the institute of political science of the Goethe University Frankfurt and publisher Europäische Verlagsanstalt. (iire.org)
  • The bourgeoisie has always pretended to explain the economic crises by the existence of obstacles to the free development of capital. (sinistra.net)
  • Once it is rid of these obstacles - which according to the bourgeoisie are inherited from the past or else caused by human ignorance - then everything would work perfectly well. (sinistra.net)
  • As a complement to the discussion of education in Chapter 9 and the discussion of health in Chapter 11 -two areas that contribute to the skills and knowledge that an individual has to offer in the labor market, known as human capital ( Goldin, 2016 )-this chapter adds a discussion of individual occupational attainment. (nih.gov)
  • Similarly, Human Rights Watch called on the Colombian government to do more to protect activists after a very bloody 2016. (counterpunch.org)
  • It is hardly surprising in this context that the first references to "natural capital" and to the "earth's capital stock" arose in this same period in the work of radical and socialist political economists, who sought to defend nature and the commons against the intrusions of the market. (monthlyreview.org)
  • To date, there has been little investigation of these phenomena in the context of aging, despite the rapid accumulation of knowledge about age-related changes in the cognitive, motivational and affective processes believed to influence economic behavior. (nih.gov)
  • To move beyond these findings innovative studies are needed that investigate genetic effects within the context of the dynamic aging processes in which they are expressed. (nih.gov)
  • although advances have been made in the national context of mental health and workers' health, the inclusion of the rural environment is still timid and the consideration of * The publication of this article in the Thematic Series "Human the rural workers' distress is practically null. (bvsalud.org)
  • Differences based on birth year are a better measure of the influence of factors occurring during the life course of an individual, which is influenced by a mixture of how macro, meso, and micro (ie, individual) factors are embedded in the historical context of a certain region or place where the individual spends his or her life. (medscape.com)
  • As the IEG told its investors, while the asset value of the world economy is $512 trillion, the asset value of the earth's natural capital is estimated at $4 quadrillion ($4,000 trillion), all potentially for the taking. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Factors of production are the resources a country and business utilize to create goods and services that help economies thrive. (mailchimp.com)
  • Economies of scale arise only because of indivisibilities of factor proportions. (proprofs.com)
  • Globalization is described by theorists as the process through which societies and economies are integrated through cross border flows of ideas, communication, technology, capital, people, finance, goods, services and information. (civilserviceindia.com)
  • Generally, globalization involves economies that are opening up to international competition and that do not distinguish against international capital. (civilserviceindia.com)
  • These factors - known as factors of production - directly influence business profitability, investment potential, and expansion opportunities. (mailchimp.com)
  • FDI is defined as an investment involving the transfer of a vast set of assets, including financial capital, advanced technology and know-how, better management practices, etc. (ipl.org)
  • We develop a quantitative theory of human capital investment in order to evaluate the magnitude of cross-country differences in total factor productivity (TFP) that explains the variation in per-capita incomes across countries. (repec.org)
  • Recent efforts in neuroeconomics, that apply the theories and methodologies of behavioral economics, game theory, psychology, and cognitive, social and affective neuroscience to the study of economic behaviors, are beginning to shed light on the neurobiological basis of these kinds of complex decision making processes. (nih.gov)
  • Fueled by methodological advances in neuroscience, including the development of neuroimaging technologies such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), the neuroeconomics approach provides opportunities for a systematic investigation of the neurobiological mechanisms involved in a wide array of economically relevant behaviors such as reward processing, temporal discounting, subjective and objective valuation, overconfidence, delay of gratification, decision-making under risk and uncertainty, and affective influences on choice. (nih.gov)
  • and (2) questions about dynamic processes including gene-environment interactions, gene-environment covariation, age-related genetic effects, and how behaviors interact with and affect genetic expression. (nih.gov)
  • To be considered responsive to this announcement, interdisciplinary perspectives must be unambiguous, the relationship between the behaviors or social processes under study and healthy aging should be articulated, and the proposed study should be embedded within a well articulated set of questions or hypotheses generated from social science and behavioral research. (nih.gov)
  • This will involve diverse approaches that: integrate molecular and quantitative methods, focus on behavioral systems for which known or candidate genes are identified, explore social processes that affect individual environments, include measures of biological intermediaries of the behaviors, and use non- linear analytic approaches to study genes, social factors and environments in developmentally dynamic ways. (nih.gov)
  • Yamamura, E. 2008 "The market for lawyers and social capital: Are informal rules a substitute for formal ones? (socialcapitalgateway.org)
  • This study reiterates that the teenage period is crucial in terms of developing human capital through formal schooling. (bvsalud.org)
  • Conceived thus, the COVID-19 pandemic can be seen as a crisis of this very system, coming about as, all of a sudden, the ostensible frictionlessness of self-running machines has been interrupted and distorted by an unexpected disruptive factor: de-humanized humans, whose vulnerability (also read: contagiousness) necessitates the shutdown of the system and thus the suspension of capital's allegedly seamless and incessant circulation. (issuu.com)
  • Effects of Interactions among Social Capital, Income and Learning from Experiences of Natural Disasters : A case study from Japan," Regional Studies 44 (8), 1019-1032. (socialcapitalgateway.org)
  • We argue that the cross-country differences in human capital implied by the theory are consistent with a wide array of evidence including earnings of immigrants in the United States, average mincer returns across countries, and the relationship between average years of schooling and per-capita income across countries. (repec.org)
  • Abstract: The debate over the Supplemental Security Income program for children reflects a key tradeoff in welfare programs: transfers to disadvantaged households could promote children's human capital development by increasing household resources, but conditioning those transfers on child health and family income could potentially discourage human capital development by creating perverse incentives. (nber.org)
  • Again, look for a followup post soon on the other portion of the case in which the Court considers whether the forfeiture provisions of three different capital accumulation plans have offered to their employees through a voluntary payroll deduction violate Connecticut's wage statutes. (ctemploymentlawblog.com)
  • This paper considers the role of state-citizen relationship, its nature and breakdown as a part of the process that lead to war, and its restoration as an important part of the peacebuilding and conflict prevention processes. (humansecuritygateway.com)
  • Human capital, cluster formation, and international relocation: the case of the garment industry in Japan, 1968-98," Journal of Economic Geography , vol. 3(1), pp. 37-56. (socialcapitalgateway.org)
  • Functional amyloids play a beneficial role in a variety of physiologic processes (eg, long-term memory formation, gradual release of stored peptide hormones). (medscape.com)
  • Features of this model are an assumption that environmental influences, ranging from intracellular conditions to larger socio/cultural effects, and genetic influences operate through the same causal field of biological structures and processes. (nih.gov)
  • Recent research on civil wars in poor countries has focused on structural conditions as causal factors, and a rich literature has emerged over the last decade. (humansecuritygateway.com)
  • What are the factors of production? (mailchimp.com)
  • The four production factors - land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship - are the building blocks of the economy. (mailchimp.com)
  • Together, the factors of production influence everything from business success to employment rates. (mailchimp.com)
  • Land resources are the natural resources used in the production process. (mailchimp.com)
  • The labor force is the human effort involved in the production process, encompassing everything from manual labor in construction to intellectual labor a software developer uses to code websites for businesses. (mailchimp.com)
  • In our theory, the parameters governing human capital production and random ability process have important implications for a set of cross-sectional statistics - Mincer return, variance of earnings, variance of schooling, and intergenerational correlation of earnings. (repec.org)
  • The commercial production of microalgae derived biodiesel is still in the research and developmental stages, mainly due to the current prohibitive high costs associated with the biomass production and fuel conversion process [ 7 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • This process adds value to the raw material and contributes to the production of goods or services. (proprofs.com)
  • At the same time the proposal is intended to progressively overcome the main bases of the exploitation and social reproduction of capital: the hierarchic social division and structure of labor, social alienation and the private property of the means of production. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Fransman, 1994) usually reify knowledge, emphasizing its importance as, for example, an important input into the production process, but rarely treating knowledge as a process itself, or if so, only in a very limited sense. (sociology.org)
  • it lies in the contradiction between the productive forces developed by capital and the bourgeois production relations, in the antagonistic nature of a mode of production which can only develop the productive forces in an enormous way by giving their products a form such that the system must periodically violently reject them. (sinistra.net)
  • In other words, capital as a relation of production hinders the self-expansion of capital as a productive force tending to develop in an unlimited way. (sinistra.net)
  • In a globalised world, where factors of production are increasingly mobile, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be affected in several ways through migration and capital inflows. (iza.org)
  • From the point of view of society, in the long run it is impossible to consider irrelevant whether additional goods and services created by new investments enlarge the material base of production, generate a quantitatively and or qualitatively improved labour force and growing constant capital, or whether they do not enter economic reproduction at all, such as objects for speculation or weapons. (iire.org)
  • As the Latin American left reckons with its failures to build a sustainable base for a transformative political project, U.S.-backed elites have set about liberating territory for capital at the expense of the region's most vulnerable populations and ecosystems. (nacla.org)
  • We expand the model presented by Galor and Zeira (1993) to represent the fact that the economy benefits from endogenous technological progress and that the government provides financial aid to reduce the financial hurdles for human capital accumulation. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The global ecological limits of sustainable human development have been crossed in several areas (climate, biodiversity, nitrogen and land use). (links.org.au)
  • Through Direct Social Property Enterprises (the property of popular communities) and Indirect Social Property Enterprises (state property) articulated in hegemonic integral socio-productive chains and networks and with the participation of forms of private property, including cooperatives, it is possible to advance toward integral sustainable human development. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • One component, for example, focuses on characterization of mRNAs and thereby helps define the catalog of all human genes. (nih.gov)
  • indicate that the bonus awards are tied to subjective factors such as diversity within a branch, and the profitability of the particular branches, which are factors not entirely predictable or within the control of the specific employee . (ctemploymentlawblog.com)
  • The brakes must be pulled urgently both to combat social inequalities and to open the way to qualitative development centred on caring for people through the satisfaction of real human needs, disalienated from commodities, democratically determined in careful respect for ecosystems. (links.org.au)
  • This paper analyzes the relations between leadership, the policy making process, policies and institutions, and development results in Chile. (worldbank.org)
  • This finding suggests that SSI's household resources channel has a large positive effect on children's human capital development. (nber.org)
  • My disagreement with Graeber is that he makes debt and credit the main factor in social development. (libcom.org)
  • But as Marxism had foreseen and predicted, the three decades of frenzied accumulation and of the development of the productive forces could only lead and have only led to a new period of conflicts and crises - and these conflicts and crises, if the proletarian revolution has not previously imposed its own solutions, can only lead to a new imperialist war. (sinistra.net)
  • These effects are robust to the inclusion of indicators for department of residence, year of birth, and controls for differential trends in human development in war affected and peaceful departments of Guatemala. (humansecuritygateway.com)
  • It will support the development of nanomaterials and nanoscale devices for molecular imaging and early detection, reporters of efficacy, and multifunctional therapeutics to combat the cancer processes. (nih.gov)
  • In any case, in the industrialized countries such homes should for the most part be regarded as durable consumer goods, not as value-producing capital assets. (iire.org)
  • These functions implicate the involvement of neural mechanisms associated with reward processing, motivation, affect, and social cognition. (nih.gov)
  • Neural and Humoral Factors in the Regulation of Bodily Functions ( Research on Conjoined Twins ). (nih.gov)
  • To illustrate the method, we generate estimates of human capital in Europe over the very long run, which support the hypothesis of a major increase in human capital preceding the industrial revolution. (repec.org)
  • In more recent decades, however, mainstream neoclassical economics (sometimes with the help of ecological economists), together with corporate finance, have completely separated the concept of natural capital from its original use-value-based critique, the memory of which has long receded, conceiving natural capital instead entirely in exchange-value terms, as just another form of financialized capital. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Together these developments represent a sea change in the capitalization of nature, such that all natural processes that involve ecosystem services to the economy are now increasingly seen to be subject to exchange on the market for profit-all in the name of conservation and climate change. (monthlyreview.org)
  • This represents the culmination of a theoretical shift in the dominant economic paradigm aimed at the unlimited accumulation of total capital, now seen as including "natural capital. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Indonesia has the chance of being the biofuels producing country as we know that Indonesia has the immense of the natural capital, especially the environmental water. (hindawi.com)
  • It is a good that is almost as necessary for human life and almost as natural as oxygen. (libcom.org)
  • While these analyses consider specific conditions such as natural resource reliance or grievances over horizontal inequalities, and have generated controversies, they also consistently point to weak governance as a common and underlying factor. (humansecuritygateway.com)
  • In a further stretch of the imagination, the root of this economic dispossession is not located in the structural conditions of capital, but in the unjust squandering of resources on the less deserving - on migrants, people of colour and queer people. (versobooks.com)
  • We also investigate whether existing supply of skilled labour is a significant determinant of inward flows of foreign capital. (iza.org)
  • Accumulation of lipids can be attributed to consumption of sugar at a rate higher than the rate of cell generation, which would promote conversion of excess sugar into lipids. (hindawi.com)
  • In 2018, Salvadoran-Brazilian researcher Aleksander Aguilar Antunes interviewed Honduran activist Luis Méndez for the e-book Golpe electoral y crisis política en Honduras (Electoral coup and political crisis in Honduras) from the Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (Latin American Social Sciences Council - CLACSO). (nacla.org)
  • In fact, according to the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), more than 100 assassinations of human rights advocates and members of marginalized and oppressed communities have taken place just in 2018. (counterpunch.org)
  • In early 2018, after the killing of 10 human rights activists, Amnesty International issued a report which called on the Colombian government to protect at-risk activists, especially those in remote parts of the country, who face extraordinary risks from paramilitaries and contract killers. (counterpunch.org)
  • And moreover, the equation of aggregate net savings with net investments gives no insight into the parallel phenomena of the creation of inflationary credits by the banks and the increasing wastage of the social surplus product from the point of view of the social reproduction process. (iire.org)
  • The present workshop is motivated by the desire to extend the neuroeconomics approach to behavioral and social research on aging, creating the opportunity to explore how the neurobiological changes associated with aging influence or are influenced by these social, emotional, cognitive, and motivational factors, and to improve our predictive models of life course economic behavior by revealing the neurobiological mechanisms involved. (nih.gov)
  • The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else. (europa.eu)
  • What is this but the dreams of a middle-class layer who wants to take a more active role in the running of the Québec state and benefit from its privileges, in exchange for lending the political process of the Québec ruling class a veneer of popularity and of democracy? (wsws.org)
  • [1] Following the long-standing Russian medical tradition of "nervism," Pavlov emphasized the dominant role of the nervous system in the organism's physiology and behavior, and largely ignored the role of humoral factors, such as blood chemistry and endocrine gland secretion (a blind spot which nearly cost him his Nobel Prize). (nih.gov)
  • Characterized by the gradual loss of physiological integrity, impaired function, and increased susceptibility to death, aging is considered the primary risk factor for major human diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • Theories of aging can be divided into two categories: (1) aging is a genetically programmed process, and (2) aging is a random process caused by gradual damage to the organism over time as a result of its vital activities. (qigonginstitute.org)
  • RESEARCH OBJECTIVES Behavior and age-related changes in behavioral processes are integral to how well we age. (nih.gov)
  • estudio de carácter transversal e interdisciplinar que realiza pesquisa bibliográfica y documental, investigando el "lugar" de la salud mental del trabajador rural en la construcción de la Política Nacional de Salud Mental, Política Nacional de Salud del Trabajador y la Política Nacional de Salud Integral de las Poblaciones del Campo, de la Floresta y Aguas. (bvsalud.org)
  • 1 In the process, the entire human relation to nature was alienated and upended. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Our main finding is that human capital accumulation strongly amplifies TFP differences across countries. (repec.org)
  • The theory implies that using Mincer returns to measure human capital understates differences across countries by a factor of 2. (repec.org)
  • Starting from the first half of the 1980s, the disinflation process was characterized by a decrease in both individual countries' inflation rates, and the extent of their cross-sectional dispersion. (europa.eu)
  • In the age of rapid technical progression, many countries are unified and transformed due to the process of globalization. (civilserviceindia.com)
  • 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)
  • The explanation of this revolting mystery resides in the very nature of capital: capital is only value seeking to generate value. (sinistra.net)
  • Hence, all effects seen in animals are of relevance for humans. (cdc.gov)
  • Capital produces products which can only have the form of commodities, that is to say of use values which are at the same time exchange values. (sinistra.net)
  • It signifies instead that the market - whose capacities of absorption in relationship to the requirements of the valorisation (self-expansion) of capital are only known a posteriori and on which new masses of commodities from individual or collective producers are ceaselessly thrown - is no longer in a position to pay the price, and therefore the profit, that these commodities «normally» should yield. (sinistra.net)
  • But commodities are only a metamorphosed form of capital. (sinistra.net)
  • Behind the overproduction of commodities in relationship to the value that the market can yield, there is nothing other than the overproduction of capital in relationship to its own needs of self-expansion or valorisation. (sinistra.net)
  • Graeber avoids Eurocentrism, by looking at economic developments on a world scale, covering the major regions of human settlement as they evolved separately and together. (libcom.org)
  • The ecocidal accumulation of capital threatens the very conditions of human life on the planet. (links.org.au)
  • My own aims are…to understand the moral grounds of economic life, and by extension, human life… " (p. 89). (libcom.org)
  • The life course perspective assumes that dementia in old age is a result of accumulated risk and protective factors across the entire life course, from before birth to old age. (medscape.com)
  • It doesn't require a theory of value, or of capital, or of profits. (asymptosis.com)
  • However, this human capacity to create an aesthetic ambiance around your personality, filled with seductive ideas, things and people, objects and processes to new introductions were gauged. (wileywiggins.com)
  • Preliminary genetic analysis suggests multiple zoonotic introductions from animal reservoirs into the human population ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Furthermore, it is still not clear to what extent entrepreneurship policy is comparable with traditionally applied instruments like R&D or human capital promotion. (springer.com)
  • Routine cross-notification between the veterinary and human health surveillance systems should be part of any zoonotic disease prevention and control programme, and close collaboration between the two health sectors is particularly important during epidemiological and outbreak investigations. (who.int)
  • The societies and human activities of the past, present and future are necessarily faced with this problem whether or not they use monetary symbols. (libcom.org)
  • I believe there is something even more central, which is human labor. (libcom.org)
  • In other words, the point of slavery was exploitation of human labor. (libcom.org)
  • in the most basic sense labor is human creativity, mediated by knowledge, and applied to the material world. (sociology.org)
  • We see it as an opportunity and propose its use as a measure of human capital that can yield comparable estimates across a wide range of historical contexts. (repec.org)
  • It explores a range of factors which impact on students' learning: their motives for entering higher education, their rationale for selecting an accounting programme, their preparedness for further study and their expectations. (sun.ac.za)
  • Taking the human rights perspective to the compact between state and citizen, it explores the links between the state obligations to guarantee human rights of citizens and civil wars. (humansecuritygateway.com)