Athanasios (Tom) Asimakopulos (1930-1990)

Tom Strong (1944-1990)

Mortality transition in the Ovamboland region of Namibia, 1930-1990.

Few long-term statistical series exist that can document the mortality transition in Africa. This paper uses data from the parish registers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia to study morality in Ovamboland between 1930 and 1990. The paper identifies significant discontinuities and reversals in the trend in mortality. Much of the mortality transition occurred in a rapid breakthrough ...

Technologic organization of malaria control in São Paulo, Brazil, 1930-1990.

Since the 1970s, when the world seemed on the threshold of malaria eradication, the incidence of the disease has increased in several countries. The upturn in cases raised a series of questions, and for some time malariologists and public health authorities scarcely understood what was happening. In an attempt to better comprehend the process, this article reviews the frequency of malaria cases...

Plans , Prices , and Corruption : The Soviet Firm Under Partial Centralization , 1930 to 1990

The level of corruption in an economy is generally thought to influence economic growth adversely. We show that the performance of the Soviet economy was affected not only by the level of corruption but also by its quality, that is, how corrupt incomes were used. In the context of a partially centralized economy, changes in a government control mechanism influenced the quality of corruption and...

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