Abstract Biodiversity conservation supporting a global sustainability transformation must be inclusive, equitable, just and embrace plural values. The basic income (CBI), proposed unconditional cash transfer to individuals residing in important areas, is potentially powerful mechanism for facilitating this radical shift conservation. This analysis provides comprehensive projections potential gr...

This study argues income distribution can determine Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) for a country. Two results of equality in affects GCI. One is economies scale; because consumption and production become more same structure similar products produces more. bargaining power; import export to. Therefore, country be gain monopolistic monopsonistic power foreign trade. Panel data model establish...

BACKGROUND Global constitutionalism is a way of looking at the world, at global rules and how they are made, as if there was a global constitution, empowering global institutions to act as a global government, setting rules which bind all states and people. ANALYSIS This essay employs global constitutionalism to examine how and why global health governance, as currently structured, has strugg...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major risk factor for end-stage renal disease, cardiovascular disease, and premature death. Here we estimated the global prevalence and absolute burden of CKD in 2010 by pooling data from population-based studies. We searched MEDLINE (January 1990 to December 2014), International Society of Nephrology Global Outreach Program-funded projects, and bibliographies ...

Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between regions of the world and among countries within each cont...

BACKGROUND Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. The World Health Organisation (WHO) collects mortality data coded using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD) code. METHODS We analysed IHD deaths world-wide between 1995 and 2009 and used the UN population database to calculate age-specific and directly and indirectly age-standardised I...