This article examines the current social and economic performance of South African national integral grouping SADC (Southern African Development Community). It analyzes the latest economic development in the SADC countries by looking at the GDP development and the development of several fundamental socio-political indicators that have an important impact on the stability and sustainable develop...

Several attempts have recently been made to identify the key indicators of community resilience and to group them into an overall resilience index. These studies support the evaluation of the effectiveness of resilience during recovery, and they also help establish a yardstick by which to monitor progress in resilience enhancement over time. We examine existing resilience indices in relation to...

The main aim of the research presented in this paper was to construct and evaluate a synthetic index of socio-economic potential of Polish cities (IoEp) at the level of voivodships and also to examine relations between this potential and the economic development of regions. The index reflects the level of localisation advantages offered by a city. That is why an assumption was made that there i...

The increasing use of satellite Remote Sensing for civilian use has proved to be the most cost effective means of mapping and monitoring environmental changes in terms of vegetation and non-renewable resources, especially in developing countries. Data can be obtained as frequently as required to provide information for determination of quantitative and qualitative changes in terrain. Forests as...

OBJECTIVES Increasing rates of childhood obesity have been suggested as a possible cause for the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions among adults and children. Few studies have examined whether obese children are more likely to use medications than normal weight children. We investigate this association in the UK. DESIGN A panel study with repeated observations at ages 5, 7 and 11. ...

OBJECTIVE To explore socio-economic factors associated with rising rates of overweight among Vietnamese adults. DESIGN The study was based on three national surveys of socio-economic factors and health conducted over a 10-year period. The studies were: the Vietnamese Living Standard Survey 1992-1993 (11 982 participants); the Vietnamese Living Standard Survey 1997-1998 (15 975 participants); ...

This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality is estimated using Theil’s index to identify the factors determining the level of pay inequality and establish its relationship with economic growth and performance. For the empirical results, we use panel data on the Korean manufacturing sector for the period 1993–2003. It app...

Since the 1980s, the United States has witnessed increasing wealth concentration in the hands of the ultra-rich. Measured at the state level, the top 10 percent of income earners amassed roughly 43% of total income, and economic growth only enhanced this inequality between the ultra-rich and the rest of citizens. This paper examines whether social capital plays a positive role in mitigating inc...

I explore the value implications of economic models by highlighting what features persist in the long-term. I accomplish this by developing a decomposition of valuation dynamics (DVD). I use it to distinguish components of an underlying economic model that influence values over long horizons from components that impact only the short run. I apply my approach to study example economies from the ...

This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. It deals with two distinct but related issues. First, it investigates how much growth is required to offset the adverse effect of an increase in inequality on poverty. This trade-off between inequality and growth is quantified using a tool called the “...