Tuberculosis remains one of the most devastating diseases in the world, affecting people of all ages across the globe. This paper reviews the economic literature dealing with the theoretical and empirical links between poor health and low productivity, both at an individual and national level. It then conducts panel data analysis covering 91 countries, using an augmented Solow growth model and ...

Civil wars impose substantial costs on the domestic economy. We empirically measure the economic impact of such internal wars. The paper contributes to the existing literature both theoretically and methodologically. First, it explores the economic channels through which civil war affects growth. Previous studies have shown the negative growth effects of civil wars. We go a step further by iden...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the economic impact of sunburn in a beachgoing population during the summer. DESIGN Survey. SETTING Galveston, Tex, beachfront. PARTICIPANTS Convenience sample of 56 sunburned beachgoers. Intervention None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Days of work lost as a result of sunburn in the previous year. RESULTS Thirty-eight respondents (68%) reported painful sunburn. Sunscree...

Using a vertically di↵erentiated product model, the paper aims to investigate the e↵ects of economic growth on market provision of product quality. The quality attribute considered is environmental-friendliness of products. Economic growth is modeled as a shift in income distribution. It shows that the e↵ect of economic growth depends on the form it takes. A growth in income that is uniform acr...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have made enormous impact on social and economic performance and competitiveness in general, and on productivity, efficiency, and innovation in particular. The literature suggests that ICT has contributed greatly to productivity growth and competitiveness in the developed as well as developing countries in the last decade. This study aims to adva...

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this paper undertakes a preliminary evaluation of economic impact of aqua-agriculture reservoirs in golestan province with different size classes. the method of information gathering in this research has been in method census from 39 of aqua-agriculture reservoirs in 4 classes (25 ha.) that information necessary to complete questionnaire has prepared. results showed that fish fingerling proprat...

Economic impacts of invasive species worldwide are substantial. Management strategies have been incorporated in population models to assess the effectiveness of management for reducing density, with the implicit assumption that economic impact of the invasive species will also decline. The optimal management effort, however, is that which minimizes the sum of both the management and impact cost...