BACKGROUND The economic, social and health costs associated with alcohol-related harms are important measures with which to inform alcohol management policies and laws. This analysis builds on previous cost estimates for South Africa. METHODS We reviewed existing international best-practice costing frameworks to provide the costing definitions and dimensions. We sourced data from South Africa...

The recent economic and financial crisis and the current slow recovery highlight that homeownership plays a critical role in the U.S. economy. The estimated “equivalent rent” implicitly paid by homeowners accounts for more than 8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Investment in single-family housing also represents a significant share of GDP and is closely tied to the business cycle. Over...

Abstract: “Skill growth is critical in stimulating a sustainable development environment and will help to ease the transition from an informal formal economy,” according International Labour Organization. In light of globalization, it also important discuss possibilities pressures meeting emerging demands changing economies modern technologies.” Management innovation students who want be practi...

The wide adoption of underground mining has contributed immensely to the rapid growth of the countries’ economy, job creation, gross domestic product, fixed capital formation, gross investment and merchandise exports on an enormous global scale. At the same time, the tedious and dangerous nature of underground mining makes it vulnerable to mine accidents and disasters, such as the fall of loose...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how oil price uncertainty affects real gross domestic product (GDP) and industrial production in eight Central Eastern European countries (CEEC). Design/methodology/approach In the research process, authors use Bayesian method of inference for two applied methodologies – Markov switching generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) mod...

the study examined relationship between the gross domestic product (gdp) of nigeria with the inputs of labour, capital and the output of fisheries. this is to ascertain that the fisheries contribution to the economy is more than is recorded in the sense that taking its indirect and direct economic impact into account, its overall contribution to the gdp of nigeria may be higher than that measur...

The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries all over the World: First Results over the Period 1999 to 2003 Using the DYMIMIC approach, estimates of the shadow economy in 145 developing, transition, developed OECD countries, South Pacific islands and still communist countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 2002/2003 in developing cou...

extended distribution of digicash has commercial, socio-economic as well as political effects. from the economic viewpoint, the most crucial effect of digicash use extension takes place on money supply, monetary policies and central bank. because digicash is capable of being replaced by bank notes and the coins, it is possible that digicash gradually takes the place of the central bank money an...