In 1992 and 1998 Russia experienced two economic crises that led to dramatic impoverishment of population, social anxiety, and followed by mortality surges. This study analyzes age-and sex-specific mortality from violent causes in Russia after the 1992 and 1998 economic crises, using official statistical data. Accidents, injuries and alcohol poisoning demonstrated the most rapid relative increa...

It is a pleasure to be here this evening to talk to the Australian Business Economists. I looked back over my files and I noted that this is only the second time I have addressed this group; the previous occasion was nearly seven years ago in February 1991. At that time, I spoke about asset price booms and busts, particularly the latter. You may think I have a one-track mind, but the same subje...

This journal is dedicated to researching and publishing on emerging threats to human health. The subject areas vary from the threats to a small group, such as Iranian veterans exposed to sulphur mustard, through to threats on a regional or global basis. One of the key evolving threats is the current global economic crisis. In October 2008, the world finally realised that the credit crisis, whic...

Although the expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Africa has been celebrated for its success in providing treatment to more than four million people, there remain core challenges to expanding therapy to those in immediate need of care and those who will require it in the future [1]. The successes have depended substantially on funding from the international community, notably the Global...

In this paper mortality crises in a rural area in southern Sweden are analysed by using a new approach. We start off with a combined life-event and time-series analysis approach in which the influences of food prices, agricultural production and air temperature on mortality by age, sex and socio-economic status is analyzed, much in line with our previous work. Special attention is given to year...

abstract:while energy especially oil, crises and economic integration have been playing an important role indevelopment and growth in east west asia economies and their intertwining relations, only limitedquantitative research on their impact has been carried out and reported for improved debate andcredible policy use. this paper uses an econometric modeling innovation with features superior to...

This paper studies the impact of income fluctuations on poverty, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing countries and the incidence of income fluctuations on householdwelfare. The paper presents a set of tools for empirical work based on theoretically sound extensions of the existing methodology for static distributional analysis. Results form longitudinal data for Ar...

Capital flows are responsible for a strong influence on the foreign exchange rates and stock prices macroeconomic parameters. In volatile economies, capital flows can change due to several types of social, political and economic events, provoking oscillations on these parameters, which are recognized as economic crises. This work aims to investigate how these two macroeconomic variables are rel...

The global economic and financial instability context of the 1990s and 2000s also affected the Turkish economy. Actually, the 1980s in Turkey are characterized by a radical transformation of its economy through significant efforts of liberalization. With an outlooking economy and a liberalized financial system in the early 1990s, Turkey was an example of successful liberalization process for th...

An economic crisis in capitalism is a deep and prolonged interruption of the economy-wide circuit of capital. Crises emerge from within the logic of capitalism’s operation, and are manifestations of the inherently contradictory process of capital accumulation. The Marxist tradition conceptualizes two types of crisis tendencies in capitalism: a crisis of deficient surplus value and a crisis of e...