CONTRIBUTON OF POPULATION GROWTH TO PER CAPITA INCOME AND SECTORAL OUTPUT GROWTH IN JAPAN, 1880-1970

Theory of Output Growth and of per Capita Output Growth: with or without Say's Law?

In a majority of the recent writings on economic growth, the term 'growth' without further qualifiers is used to mean growth of per capita output, with a striking linguistic change relative to a couple of decades ago. This linguistic change reflects the exclusive concentration on the determinants of the growth of per capita output, which characterises modern Endogenous Growth Theory. The implic...

Distribution of per Capita Income in Georgia

The Evolution of the Conditional Joint Distribution of Life Expectancy and per Capita Income Growth

In this paper we investigate the joint conditional distribution of health (life expectancy) and income growth, and its evolution over time. The conditional distributions of these two variables are obtained by applying non-parametric methods to a bivariate non-parametric regression system of equations. Analyzing the distributions of the non-parametric fitted values from these models we find stro...

World population growth and the role of annual energy use per capita.

In the context of ongoing world population growth, no permanent growth in materials consumption can be sustained into the future. A sustainable future requires that the world's population stabilize. The author considers the possible coupling of the annual energy use per capita and the population growth rate for each region, and the consequences of such a connection if the world's population i...

[Household insecticides: pattern of use according to per capita income].

OBJECTIVE Although insecticides are widely used in many countries, few studies of their use in households have been conducted. This study was carried out to describe the household use of insecticides according to per capita income. METHODS From October 1999 to January 2000, questionnaires on the use of household insecticides were applied to 2,039 households in the urban area of Pelotas, Brazi...