hat have been the significant changes in China’s economic and political institutions? I will answer this question by discussing eight topics chosen from Milton and Rose Friedman’s book Free to Choose. The topics are economic freedom, the relation between economic and political freedom, the role of government, social welfare, education, consumer protection, macroeconomic policy, and trends in th...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective database analysis. OBJECTIVE The impact of the 2008-2009 economic downtown on elective lumbar spine surgery is unknown. Our objective was to investigate the effect of the economic downturn on the overall trends of elective lumbar spine surgery in the United States. METHODS The Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) was used in conjunction with US Census and macroeconom...

economic recession is considered as a repeatable and constant phenomenon in capitalist economy. countries which experienced rapid economic growth have inevitably applied a balancing program after that. generally, whenever industrial, financial and commercial developments occurred in a rapid growth, the reverse and changing processes would appear. consequently, they will affect the financial and...

GLM|LIC Synthesis Paper No. 7 | October 2017 What Explains Uneven Female Labor Force Participation Levels and Trends in Developing Countries?* Trends in female labor force participation (FLFP) have been quite heterogeneous, rising strongly in Latin America, while improvements were modest in the Middle East and female participation even fell in South Asia. These trends are inconsistent with the ...

This study attempts to discover the pattern of rural library usage among rural youth in Malaysia and to determine the problems that are associated with such usage. The findings of this study provide an insight into youth usage of rural library services. The most obvious pattern that resulted from the findings is the connection between library usage and the availability of reading materials. Fur...

Based on the established association between child poverty and youth violence trends, this study employs both macroand micro-level research strategies to determine whether the recent changes in macroeconomic conditions and welfare reform policies that influenced child poverty trends throughout most of the 1990’s and the early 2000’s also influenced trends in youth violent victimization, and the...