Housing vacancy is a significant issue in developed countries’ decaying and densely populated cities. Comparisons are made between the number of ‘vacant housing’ ‘homeless people’ stressing existence inequalities access to housing. The reasons for addressing manifold, ranging from mitigating urban blight mobilising latent resources tight markets. Little attention paid municipal housing strategi...

The relationship between domestic demand and exports has remained the focus of academic world for a long time. A large body research confirmed promotion effect international trade on demand. This study uses difference-in-difference (DID) model to estimate instrumental variables. In addition, we have discussed that China’s “Home Appliances Countryside” policy as an variable it affects through tw...

The purpose of the study was to impact domesticconsumption (electricity consumption, food, and natural gas) on EconomicGrowth Pakistan. Time series data is used for analysis from 1981 2014taken World Governance Indicators Index. Pakistan's GDP as adependent variable household consumption includes ofelectricity, gas independent variables. Multipleregression determine relationship between differe...

Electricity is one of the most important sources for economic and social development of a country. The growth in energy consumption is basically linked with the growth in economy. Energy demand increases due to different reasons, including higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, higher per capita consumption, the population growth and rapid development of industrial & commercial sectors. In...

Petrol powered traffic has replaced domestic heating and industry as the main causes for urban air pollution (Colvile, Hutchinson, Mindell, & Warren, 2001). Automobile combustion engines are responsible for the better part of a city’s CO2 and NOX pollutants. The amount of pollutants emitted by a vehicle largely depends on fuel consumption: the more fuel the vehicle consumes, the higher its emis...

Energy consumption is abstract and invisible for consumers within the household. Through the European rollout of smart meters, an attempt to develop information and communication technologies to reduce domestic energy consumption has been launched. There is the expectation that usage of these technologies will result in energy and cost savings. This paper describes an approach for integrating p...

During the last few decades, many emerging markets have lifted restrictions on cross-border financial transactions. The conventional view was that this would allow these countries to: (i) receive capital inflows from advanced countries that would finance higher investment and growth; (ii) insure against aggregate shocks and reduce consumption volatility; and (iii) accelerate the development of ...

BACKGROUND Increasingly, medications are consumed outside of clinical settings, with relatively little professional oversight. Despite this trend, previous studies of medication errors have focused on clinical settings. METHODS We examined all US death certificates from January 1, 1983, to December 31, 2004 (N = 49,586,156), particularly those with fatal medication errors (FMEs) (n = 224,355)...

Previous work has identified that providing real time feedback or interventions to consumers can persuade consumers to change behaviour and reduce domestic electricity consumption. However, little work has investigated what exactly those feedback mechanisms should be. Most past work is based on an in-home display unit, possibly complemented by lower tariffs and delayed use of non-essential home...