The European economic challenge

Drug-resistance--a challenge for tuberculosis control in the European Union and European Economic Area.

Worldwide resistance to antituberculosis drugs is jeopardising the control and eventually the elimination of tuberculosis (TB). Patients who are infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to antituberculosis drugs, especially to both isoniazid and rifampicin and thus having multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, need more complicated treatment that lasts longer and consists of a large number of dr...

Intentions to migrate within the European Union: A challenge for simple economic macro-level explanations

Individual mobility within the European Union has remained rather low, in spite of large socioeconomical differences and the lack of political restrictions for citizens of member states. Taking this as a starting point, this paper sets out to develop a more appropriate view by combing aspects of economic and sociological migration theories both at the macro and micro levels. For this purpose, t...

Analysing the Effect of Financial Development and Symmetric Information on Economic Growth of European Union Members

The relationship between financial development and economic growth is the crucial issues which could grab economists and policy makers' attention to it. Financial market plays an essential role on each economy, because it conducts funds to those individuals or firms which have productive investment opportunities. If the financial system does not perform this role efficiently, the economic effic...

Steel and the European Economic Community

economic sociology _ the european electronic newsletter 9

Dear reader, In the last two issues we have turned to adjacent fields and looked at anthropology and economics. In this issue we zoom in on geography. From this glance we suggest that at least these three disciplines are getting increasingly " sociological ". Sociological ideas, theories, concepts, and ways of reasoning are being used also outside of sociology. We also argue that sociologists c...