We develop an endogenous growth model driven by externalities of both private capital and public infrastructure.

BACKGROUND Information about public gambling attitudes and gambling participation is crucial for the effective prevention of gambling-related harm. This study investigates female and male attitudes towards gambling, gambling participation, and gambling-related harm in the Finnish population aged 15-74. METHODS Cross-sectional random sample data were collected in 2011 (n = 4484) and 2015 (n = ...

health and disease in populations. As such it is considered to be the basic science of public health, the activity of preventing disease and promoting health in populations [1]. This focus on primary prevention of disease in large groups has distinguished public health from medicine, which focuses on treatment and prevention of disease in individual patients. To provide the basic science for pu...

Financial inclusion can be defined as the access to formal financial services at an affordable cost for all members of an economy, favoring mainly low-income groups. It has been recognized as a critical element in policies for poverty reduction and economic growth. Some successful experiences with financial inclusion reported in developing countries are associated with the use of information an...

The current study aimed at determining the Impact of Socio-Economic and Demographic Dimensions on increasing poverty in Jordan Madaba Governorate. Five hypotheses were set to be tested and to reach tangible results. The analytical descriptive method was used and the study depended on the field work to collect data through a specific questionnaire. The sample was drawn with 300 families using a ...

Certain sociological problems are less likely than others to be studied through primary field research. Some deal with topics that do not seem important enough to warrant the expense of a full-scale field inquiry; others treat subjects about which most people believe the facts are known; some involve events and opinions in the past which cannot be measured among current populations. Under these...

The national scale up of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi is based on a public health approach, with principles and practices borrowed from the successful World Health Organization "DOTS" tuberculosis control framework. The scale up of antiretroviral therapy was under-pinned by a very strong monitoring and evaluation system, which was used to audit the scale up approach and conduct operational ...

The Karen of the Andaman Islands present a unique story—a story of migration, transformation and endurance. This paper presents the findings of my ethnographic fieldwork of 2014 contextualized through extensive secondary research of Andaman and Karen history. Some data supported my initial expectation of rapid cultural transformation of the Karen due to their gradual increase in contact and int...

Interest in the contemporary geodynamic setting of southwestern British Columbia stems from a concern that a large earthquake may impact the major urban centres of the province. Indeed, monitoring of seismic activity in western Canada indicates that numerous smaller magnitude (<M4) intraplate earthquakes affect the southern coastal region annually. and that very small tremors occur daily. Large...

Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in the global political arena, including shifts in geopolitical arrangements, increases in popular mobilization and contestation over the direction of globalization, and efforts by elites to channel or curb popular opposition. We explore how these factors affect changes in global politics. Organizational populations are shaped by ongoing interactions am...