This paper examines four questions posed by economic analysis to help set priorities for government involvement with antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV/AIDS. The main focus is on making decisions about policy relating to ARVs in developing countries where the needs are greatest and resource constraints are most binding. While the answers may vary considerably depending on individ...

Innovative processes aimed at sustainable development or eco-innovations have received increasing attention during the past years despite the lack of theoretical and methodological approaches to analyzing their impact. This paper focuses on how sustainability indicators can be used to measure the effects of “non-technical” ecoinnovations in the Sri Lankan tea plantation sector. After carrying o...

An important element of resource management and conservation is an understanding of the tradeoffs between marketed products such as timber and measures of environmental quality such as biodiversity. In this paper, we develop an integrated economic – ecological spatial optimization model. The integrated model incorporates dynamic forest sector harvesting, oil and gas sector development, coarse f...

As the subject of how economic development affects the quality of the natural environment has gained great momentum, this paper focuses on examining the extent to which the openness of a market economy and the quality of the institution affect environmental performance. The majority of the current studies focus on the Environmental Kuznets Curve and the level of economic growth. This paper addr...

2 INTRODUCTION This paper starts from two propositions relating to tourism-migration relationships, and knowledge transfer. First, there has been considerable interest in recent years in ideas relating to 'tourist-migrant' workers, that is, in the complex interrelationships between economic and cultural/tourism motivations, particularly amongst young people. However, this represents only one of...

regional input-output tables historical background goes back to 1950 when its idea was proposed by walter isard. in iran, regional accounts generation started in the fifth development plan before the islamic revolution, but these accounts have been generated only for some provinces. the generation and completion of these accounts and tables on the basis of surveying and mechanical methods or a ...

1 Stocks and Flows of Knowledge and their Relation to the Sustainability of the Information Society Jonathan Cave RAND Europe Abstract: The TERRA2000 project uses data, models and scenarios to examine the economic, social, environmental and cultural sustainability of the global networked knowledge society. The measurement of knowledge is key to this enterprise. However, to speak of the 'Knowled...

while one of the society basic needs in present conditions is in economic structures changes in order to create new job opportunities, it requires the identification of investment opportunities. identifying the comparative advantage of economic activities in different areas, provide the possibility of optimum resource allocation by local and foreign investors. according to the comparative advan...