The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children’s human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses on cognitive skills as determinants of human capital, it neglects non-cognitive skills. We analyze dat...

The aim of this paper is to assess the sign and magnitude of the nonlinear effects of main socio-economic variables as well as the financial development index(measured by private credit to GDP ratio) on the environmental pollution. Specifically, the interaction of the socio-economic variables with financial development as a threshold variable in affecting CO2 emission is studied. In this respec...

This paper provides new grounds for research and applications in designing, developing, implementing and institutionalizing decision support systems and their use in socio-economic development. The paper describes the experience of the cabinet of Egypt with socio-economic decision making and its implications on the emergence of a new type of information-based organization, the Information and D...

An up-to-date review of rural road accident statistics for Iran is presented The review considers sources of accident statistics in Iran and the means by which they are collected. The statistics are considered in relation to accident causal and risk factors. A comparison is made with statistics available for other countries at a similar stage of development and countries with highly developed e...

The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children’s human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses on cognitive skills as determinants of human capital, it neglects non-cognitive skills. We analyze dat...

BACKGROUND People with higher socio-economic status (SES) are generally in better health. Less is known about when these socio-economic health differences set in during childhood and how they develop over time. The goal of this study was to prospectively study the development of socio-economic health differences in the Netherlands, and to investigate possible explanations for socio-economic var...

Material well being and resource mobilization have assumed importance and priority over many other things. One consequence of this has been a significant number of people migrate from Pakistan to different countries of the world in search of better paid employment. As a result they send remittances to their home country. The aim of the study was to find out the volume and utilization pattern of...

Animal viral diseases in Latin American countries are studied in the light of the growing economic dependence between industrialized countries and countries producing raw materials, including animal pro­ tein. Viral diseases contribute to create the status of underdevelopment but may also be consequences of this status. The history of the livestock industry in Latin America, where viral disease...