Since 1950, global poverty and child mortality rates have declined more rapidly than during any other period in history. Progress has been uneven, however, so that inequalities have widened; since the 1970s, an increasing number of countries have experienced periods of prolonged economic decline. Eighty countries now have per capita incomes lower than in 1990. Partly in consequence, indicators ...

after second world war, demand for oil increased and in 1970s reached to its maximum growth. and naturally, providing this level of demand depended on much more import from opec, especially from middle eastern members. contemporaneous, in the early 1970s, some opec governments stopped granting new concessions and starting to claim equity participation in the existing concessions, with a few of ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, a significant groundfish fishery existed in the Gulf of Mexico. There were about 50 vessels in the fishery which targeted a groundfish complex that consisted of over 170 species, dominant of which were croaker, spot, seatrout, cutlassfish, sea catfish, porgies, perch, drums, hake, and butterfish. The primary directed fishery was for the pet food, harvesting 50,000 to...

OBJECTIVES To describe the radiographic changes in coalworkers exposed to unusual concentrations of respirable quartz during the 1970s, and to relate these to exposure measurements. METHODS Men who had worked at one Scottish colliery during the 1970s were invited to a health survey. Chest radiographs were taken from 547 subjects. Classifications of these films under the International Labour O...

Since the early 1970s, over 40 hll-length reports have been published concerning rated perceived exertion (RPE) during exercise at the environmental extremes of heat, cold or high altitude. More is known about RPE during exercise in the heat than exercise in the cold or at high altitude. The purpose of this paper is to briefly review the key findings fkom the published literature concerning W E...

The article examines the extent to which Finnish and Swedish conservative parties adopted neoliberal ideas from 1970s onwards. It does so by comparing their published programmes contextualizing them politically economically. Neoliberalism is understood as an intellectual tradition centred around objective of increasing role market mechanism in society. Concrete programmatic include critiques pu...