introduction all nations are striving for development. economic development is one of the main parts of development process, but not all of it. populations health is one of the main factors of economic development, and child’s mortality is one of the main factors of population health status. the aim of this study is investigating the role of socioeconomic disparties in under 5 mortality in east...

Recently there is a revived interest in national accounts for pre-industrial cultures, especially in the late-medieval period. There is one conclusion that can already be drawn from this new stream of research: per capita income turns out to have been higher than what had been assumed before. This revision of income estimates for the late medieval Eurasia has serious implications for research o...

PURPOSE To analyze whether income inequality and other social determinants are associated with suicide rate in Brazil. METHOD This study used panel data from all 5,507 Brazilian municipalities from 2000 to 2011. Suicide rates were calculated by sex and standardized by age for each municipality and year. The independent variables of the regression model included the Gini Index, per capita inco...

administer and finance, A State that spends a comparatively large amount per inhabitant for public assistance ordinarily uses a relatively large percent of its income payments to support the program. There is a fairly high correlation between the ranking of States in amount spent per inhabitant for public assistance from State and local funds and percent of income used (chart 1). There is littl...

the environmental kuznets curve (ekc) hypothesis posits an inverted u relationship between environmental pollutants and per capita income. recent researches have examined this hypothesis for different pollutants in different countries. however, so far a few number of ekc studies have been carried out in iran. this might be due to the lack of reliable environmental data in this field. the aim of...