Increased wealth and per capita energy use have transformed lives shaped societies, but poverty remains a global challenge. Previous research has shown positive relationships among metrics of health happiness economic indices such as income gross domestic product between human development. To our knowledge, however, no comprehensive assessment examined to what extent may limit national-level tr...

OBJECTIVE This article is the first in a series of international case studies developed by the American Cancer Society to illustrate use of publicly available surveillance data for regional tobacco control. DESIGN A descriptive analysis of Brazil and Paraguay cigarette production and trade data from official sources. METHODS Per capita cigarette consumption for Brazil and its neighbour was ...

Why Are Married Men Working So Much? Home Production, Household Bargaining and Per-Capita Hours Empirical patterns of labor supply at the micro level tend to reject the unitary model assumption implicit in most macro theories, where households are the deemed to be rational agents. This paper examines the rise in per-capita labor since 1975 and asks how the inclusion of bargaining between spouse...

We studied the instability of rainfall, harvested areas and aggregate yields rice, beans, cassava corn made projections per capita production these crops between 2022 2031. Rainfall in Maranhão years 1933 to 2020 was placed into three periods: short, normal rainy. Agricultural population data from IBGE were used. Annual rainfall collected National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Vari...

In many developed countries fish and shellfish are increasingly promoted as healthy alternatives to other animal protein. We analysed how much fish was available to UK and global populations after accounting for processing losses, and compared this to recommended levels of fish consumption. In 2012, UK domestic fish landings per capita fell 81% below the recommended intake, although declines we...