World economy 2000-2005: Basic indicators

The impact of changing health indicators on infant mortality rates in Brazil, 2000 and 2005.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the associations between changes in indicators of health-related resources and coverage, and variations in infant mortality rates (IMR) in Brazil's 27 states in 2000 and 2005. METHODS Data were obtained from the Ministry of Health's online database, DATASUS. Stepwise multiple regressions were performed to model changes in IMR and its components (early, late, and post...

The ID - StudioLab 2000 - 2005

Forthcoming: World Economy: Global Trade Policy 2005 Agricultural Liberalization and the Least developed Countries: Six Fallacies

Today, agriculture remains the most distorted sector of the world economy. Therefore, agricultural liberalization in the Doha negotiations is rightly the top priority. But the public-policy discourse on the subject remains fogged by a number of fallacies. These fallacies probably originated with the leadership of the World Bank but have now been embraced by the IMF, OECD, Oxfam and the leading ...

Water world 2000.

Today, at least one-fifth of all people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water, a problem that will almost certainly worsen as the earth's population grows. Although the vast majority of industrial discharges into waterways are regulated and treated, and most cities and towns effectively monitor and treat their sewage for chemical contaminants, problems such as arsenic contamination and d...

Modeling the Growth of the World Economy: The Basic Overlapping Generations Model

The previous chapter provided a detailed introduction to empirical data concerning the long run growth of the world economy as a whole and to the international economic relations prevailing among nearly 100 nation states. In this chapter we intend to explore within a simple theoretical model the driving forces behind the apparently unbounded growth of the global market economy, and for the mome...