The challenge for developing country agriculture in the next 25 years is enormous, particularly if it is not only to satisfy the growing effective demand for food, but also help reduce poverty and malnutrition, and do it in an environmentally sustainable fashion. Due to population growth and rising incomes, demand in the developing countries is predicted to increase by 59% for cereals, 60% for ...

Objectives: Studies in “environmental justice” consider the possibility that hazardous and/or poorly operated industrial facilities may be disproportionately located in poor, minority, and politically disenfranchised communities. Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 requires that chemical facilities in the U.S. that had on premises more than specified quantities of toxic or fl...

Ce document est un fac-similé de l'édition imprimée. Espace Populations Sociétés est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution-Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale-Pas de Modification 4.0 International. Residence Status and Housing in Urban China – the Case of Beijing Housing is one of the key resources separating the haves from the have-nots in urban China. As rece...

Article history: Received 13 January 2009 Received in revised form 27 July 2009 Accepted 27 July 2009 Available online 19 August 2009 Regional differences in IQ are presented for 12 regions of Italy showing that IQs are highest in the north and lowest in the south. Regional IQs obtained in 2006 are highly correlated with average incomes at r=0.937, and with stature, infant mortality, literacy a...

BACKGROUND An inequitable distribution of parks and other 'green spaces' could exacerbate health inequalities if people on lower incomes, who are already at greater risk of preventable diseases, have poorer access. METHODS The availability of green space within 1 kilometre of a Statistical Area 1 (SA1) was linked to data from the 2011 Australian census for Sydney (n = 4.6 M residents); Melbou...

he American Dream, to have a better life than those who came before us, is possible because of opportu‐ nity. A favorable juncture of circum‐ stances,* opportunity can be viewed economically as a combination of employment, income, population, and education. More jobs in a location creates a situation in which there are more opportunities to find a suitable match between employer and employee. L...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of changes in real house prices in the USA using State level data. It examines the extent to which real house prices at the State level are driven by fundamentals such as real per capita disposable income, as well as by common shocks, and determines the speed of adjustment of real house prices to macroeconomic and local disturbances. We take explicit ac...

In Ireland, as in many other countries, much health care provision is State funded and State provided. Equity, in the sense of equality of ‘treatment’ for individuals with the same health needs irrespective of their geographical locations, or incomes, has been, and is, very much stressed as an appropriate policy objective. However, health care delivery in Ireland (and in some other countries in...

In this paper we look at noticable correlations between the health of the population, the availability of medical facilities, and the prevalence of health insurance across US counties and states. Below we present the results of our data analysis. Overall, there appear to be some interesting correlations regarding the mean income of a population and the number of health businesses, the race of a...

This article analyses empirically the main existing theories on income and population city growth: increasing returns to scale, locational fundamentals and random growth. To do this we consider a large database of urban, climatological and macroeconomic data from 1,173 US cities observed in 1990 and 2000. The econometric model is robust to the presence of spatial effects. Our analysis shows the...