Sustainable development and poverty alleviation are two intertwined issues that continue to be accorded the highest priority by decisionmakers. This paper seeks to anlayse the nexus between these two topics within a transdisciplinary integrative framework (sustainomics). Following the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, including the adoption of the United Nations’ Agenda 21, and the 2002 Worl...

I investigate the role that matching frictions play in the Puerto Rican labor market. The search-theoretical models of the labor market which were developed in the 1980’s led to an explosion of empirical work in the search for evidence of the mechanisms that supported the theory. This paper seeks to measure the degree to which the Puerto Rican labor market is afflicted by congestion externaliti...

This paper reviews the post-independence performance of the Burmese economy. It is argued that the devastation of war and the slow pace of economic recovery after 1950 meant that Burma took a very long time even to regain levels of per capita GDP which had been attained in the 1930s. There has been very little change in the sectoral shares of either national product or the labour force. The pap...

PURPOSE This study assesses whether the stagnation of old-age (80+) mortality decline observed in The Netherlands in the 1980s continued in the 1990s and determines which factors contributed to this stagnation. Emphasis is on the role of smoking. DESIGN AND METHODS Poisson regression analysis with linear splines was applied to total and cause-specific mortality data by age, year of death (195...

Depression’, wrote Thorstein Veblen shortly after the end of the Great Depression of 1873–96, ‘is primarily a malady of the affections of the business men. That is the seat of the difficulty. The stagnation of industry and the hardship suffered by the workmen and other classes are of the nature of symptoms and secondary effects’. To be efficacious remedies must, therefore, be such ‘as to reach ...

One of the most controversial aspects of federal and state policies aimed at protecting old-growth ecosystems has been the potential impact of job losses on local economies. A fundamental question for historically timber-dependent communities is whether these policies will result in local economic stagnation and enduring pockets of poverty. In this paper, we examine the long-run impact of chang...

A distinctive optimization technique known as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) has gained huge popularity in these recent years due to its flexibility and the ability to avoid reaching local optima. This optimization approach has become a candidate approach for many optimization problems. Unfortunately, this attractive algorithm suffers several downsides including stagnation and slow convergence t...

Since the introduction of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) technique in 1992, the algorithm starts to gain popularity due to its attractive features. However, several shortcomings such as slow convergence and stagnation motivate many researchers to stop further implementation of ACO. Therefore, in order to overcome these drawbacks, ACO is proposed to be combined with Differential Evolution (DE) an...