Income inequality and financialization: a not so straightforward relationship

Screening latent tuberculous infection to treat: not so straightforward.

465 It is obvious that active tuberculosis (TB) disease must be fully treated with at least 6 months’ of anti-TB medications. What is less clear and inconsistently practiced is the screening and treatment of latent TB infection (LTBI). Swarna Nantha, in a review article published in this issue of MJM, appeals for targeted case screening of LTBI in certain high risk populations particularly our ...

The Relationship between Income Inequality and Globalization

In this paper we present two composite indices of globalization. The first one is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine and the second one is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate which countries have become most global and show how globalization has developed over time. The indices are composed of four components: economic integration, personal contact, technology an...

Income inequality and health: what have we learned so far?

Many developed countries have experienced a sharp rise in income inequality during the past three decades, and the United States is no exception (1). For example, the average annual salary in America in inflation-adjusted 1998 dollars increased from $32,522 in 1970 to $35,864 in 1999, that is, a modest 10 percent increase over three decades. By contrast over the same period, the average annual ...

Correlation of Income Inequality and Entrepreneurial Activity

The fact of growth of inequality in distribution of income both inside the national economies and between the countries is confirmed by many empirical studies. In particular, these are annual reports of the World Bank, UNIDO and European Commission. The growth of inequality in distribution of income causes social tension inside the countries and promotes conflicts between the countries. Entrepr...

Inequality in CO2 emissions across countries and its relationship with income inequality: a distributive