This article attempts to examine the factors affecting residential electricity consumption through two approaches, a socioeconomic perspective and a direct use perspective. The results of this study find that gross domestic product (GDP), employment rates, residential space, and the implementation of energy labeling schemes provide significant impacts on residential electricity consumption. How...

this qualitative study presents women’s perceptions of domestic violence and their coping strategies based on self-narratives collected from a small sample in iran. by limiting women’s access to life opportunities, domestic violence is a major obstacle to social, economic, and political equity and by extension to development. violence against women goes beyond being a personal or a private issu...

The vegetable sub-sector is considered a sector having high prospects of commercialization. It supports to create the job opportunities, thereby contributes reducing poverty rate. However, little empirical research has been done know benefits commercial production and households’ behavior towards its adoption. Thus, this study seeks assess economics determinant factors farmers for adoption in K...

For nearly a decade, I have argued that the Federal Reserve should maintain a target path of total demand in the American economy. The best measure of total demand, I suggest, is what the Department of Commerce calls “final sales to domestic purchasers.” This aggregate is equal to nominal gross domestic product minus the change in private inventories minus exports plus imports. In recent years,...

a r t i c l e i n f o Sovereign debt crises in emerging markets are usually associated with liquidity and banking crises. The conventional view is that the domestic turmoil is the consequence of foreign retaliation, although there is no clear empirical evidence on " classic " default penalties. This paper emphasizes, instead, a direct link between sovereign defaults and liquidity crises buildin...

In view of the interaction between demand and supply shocks nature disparity in business cycles Advanced Economies (AEs) Emerging Market (EMEs), we reinvigorate policy “silver bullets” that ascertain a sustainable growth revival aftermath COVID-19 shock. Using novel cycle dating algorithm, identify up-cycle down-cycle phases India’s gross domestic product rate use dynamic factor analysis using ...

This paper shows that the effects of financial liberalization on the credit market of a small and capital constrained economy depend on the market structure of domestic banks prior to liberalization. Specifically, under perfect competition in the domestic credit market prior to liberalization, liberalization leads to lower domestic interest rates, in turn leading to increased credit penetration...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors associated with variation in bicycle helmet use by youth of different industrialized countries. DESIGN A multinational cross sectional nationally representative survey of health behaviors including symptoms, risk taking, school setting, and family context. SETTING School based survey of 26 countries. SUBJECTS School students, ages 11, 13, and 15 years totali...