The leading direct cause of the loss of biodiversity is habitat alteration and disruption. If we are to address this cause directly, we need to find ways of changing the behavior of rural people. Experience has shown that this is done most effectively through the use of economic instruments, ranging from taxes that discourage over-exploitation, to direct payments for conservation activities car...

background and purpose: physical activity may be classified as intense, moderate, and low. despite their health-related benefits, iranian women have a low rate of physical activity. women face numerous obstacles and challenges for participating in physical activity programs, most notably are household chores and taking caring of children, long distance between home and workplace and the other p...

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery In times of economic crisis, with the government cutting funds in various sectors, including science and technology, with serious consequences in scientific research and, consequently, the production of good articles, periodicals must learn to reinvent themselves in order to be most read/accessed by attracting more interesting studies. To make matters...

The performance of the Chinese economy since Deng Xiaoping’s and Jiang Zemin’s changes to the core philosophy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is unprecedented for a country so large and could be seen as contrary to Popper’s central idea that liberal democracy is essential to peaceful transitions toward prosperity. It is argued in this chapter that this growth surge is due to the separation...

THIS ISSUE of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity contains papers and discussions presented at the fifty-third conference of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, which was held in Washington, D.C., on April 2 and 3, 1992. The first paper presents a model of regional economic performance and uses it to examine the general features of regional growth and fluctuations, with insights for the...

BACKGROUND Historically, implementing nutrition policy has confronted persistent obstacles, with many of these obstacles arising from political economy sources. While there has been increased global policy attention to improving nutrition in recent years, the difficulty of translating this policy momentum into results remains. DISCUSSION We present key political economy themes emanating from ...

This paper investigates why economic approaches to priority setting have had only limited impact in practice. It argues that obstacles to the take-up of the economic approach centre on (1) limitations in the theory and practice of economic evaluations, and (2) the nature of the wider context within which decisions on priority setting take place. On the first point, it argues that, despite advan...