The long-term care (LTC) literature has been generally associated with industrialized countries. However, LTC needs are increasing in the developing world at a rate that far exceeds than experienced by industrialized countries. Using China as a case study, the purpose of this report is to provide an example of an emerging institutional care system for rural elders in a rapidly developing countr...

REVIEWER COMMENTS. These findings further support the role of environmental factors in the development of allergic disease. Limitations of this study, however, include selfreport of allergic disease without clinical verification. The majority of the participants currently reside in a metropolitan area, and it is unknown what proportion of foreignborn familiesmoved from a developing country (com...

Output and asset returns are highly positively correlated across the U.S. and the remaining major industrialized countries. Standard business cycle models that assume #exible prices and wages, in the real business cycle (RBC) tradition, have great di$culties explaining this fact. This paper presents a dynamic-optimizing stochastic general equilibrium model of a two-country world with sticky nom...

Using bank-specific data on U.S. bank claims on individual foreign countries since the mid-1980s, this paper: 1) characterizes the size and portfolio diversification patterns of the U.S. banks engaging in foreign lending; and 2) econometrically explores the determinants of fluctuations in U.S. bank claims on a broad set of countries. U.S. bank claims on Latin American and Asian emerging markets...

An Empirical Study of the Relationships between CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth and Openness This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series data (1971-2006) from China (an emerging market), Korea (a newly industrialized country), and Japan (a deve...

This project deals with the spontaneous second language acquisition (henceforth SSLA) of adult, foreign immigrants, and their communication with speakers of the language of the country where they live and work. "Foreign" refers here to language rather than citizenship. There are at present about 11 million adult immigrants living in the industrialized western European countries, and their numbe...

We report a case of naturally acquired Plasmodium knowlesi in Singapore, a malaria-free country. Diagnosis was confirmed by PCR with validated species-specific primers. In industrialized countries, free-ranging primates are a potential source of P. knowlesi human infection. P. knowlesi infection is a differential diagnosis of febrile illness acquired in Singapore.

We describe a 42-year-old woman with histologically confirmed lobomycosis, a cutaneous fungal infection rarely reported outside of Latin America. Our case represents the first published report of imported human lobomycosis in Canada and the fifth in an industrialized country.

The United States has the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy of any Western industrialized country. Addressing these high rates and preventing adolescent pregnancy are complicated tasks. This article addresses some of the issues involved with preventing adolescent pregnancy, focusing on contraception.

In this paper we describe and explain country differences in the effect of gender on the risk of becoming poor, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study on 22 industrialized countries. Although in most countries women are more likely to become poor than men, this is not the case for all countries. Composition effects explain 18 per cent of the country differences: differences in the educatio...