While many herald globalization—the increasing interconnectedness of national economies—to be associated with rising standards of living across the globe, many others fear its effects on economic sustainability. Anti globalization forces and environmentalists in particular view these developments as a threat to intergenerational equity and the health of the environment because of profligate con...

OBJECTIVE A multi-method case study examined how the economic and political processes of globalization have influenced the determinants of health among low-income children in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. This paper presents the results from the qualitative interview component of the case study. The purpose of the interviews was to uncover the lived experience of low-income families and thei...

 The importance of community's health followed by the consideration of endogenous growth models has led to an increase in health expenditure of countries to speed up economic growth and development. This has made the efficiency of health production function to an essential issue especially in developing countries. Based upon this, the present study with employing the stochastic frontier analysi...

Contemporary societies are experiencing growing diversity both at different levels (firms, cities, regions, countries) and in different arenas (cultural, social, and economic). One of the main reasons is the process of globalization that has pushed the cross-country flows of ideas, knowledge, goods, capital and people. Undoubtedly, no feature of globalization is considered with more unease than...

Over the last two decades, virtually every facet of fleet management and operation has changed in one way or another. Among the most significant catalysts for change in the fleet industry have been legislation, economic globalization, and technological development. Whereas legislation and globalization can lay claim to significant gains in engine efficiency, reductions in vehicle emissions, and...

This paper critically examines attempts to revitalize the comparative political economy model in contrast to analyses based on a globalization perspective. The organized market economy approach of Peter Hall is seen as a more inviting version of the CPE model. The political dilemmas facing national governments in an era of globalization are examined through a discussion of the economic policies...

a r t i c l e i n f o Global slack hypothesis Inflation expectations Openness Small open economy DSGE model Korea This paper studies the implications of globalization for the dynamics of macroeconomic variables over the business cycle for a small open trade-dependent economy, such as South Korea. We study the impact of globalization through the lens of a structural model. Globalization is model...