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Increasing prosperity has prompted Irish kids to balloon 24 kilos since 1948
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Irish kids now weigh 24 kilos more than they did in 1948, reveals research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Study links gridlock to slow job growth
Jan 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Commuters well versed in the physical and psychological tolls of traffic congestion can now add an economic effect to the list. A new UC Irvine study found that places with sluggish commutes ...
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Researchers Map Building Blocks of Economic Complexity
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Since the times of Adam Smith, economists have had the intuition that prosperity emerges from the division of labor, that is, from the interaction of thousands of individual activities. This idea has been present for a long ...
Financial Crisis Reduces Economic Freedom in China and the West
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The current financial crisis may reduce economic freedom as governments are likely increase intervention in a bid to protect their own economies - according to a study in Pacific Focus published by Wiley- ...
As planet warms, poor nations face economic chill
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A rising tide is said to lift all boats. Rising global temperatures, however, may lead to increased disparities between rich and poor countries, according to a recent MIT economic analysis of the impact of ...
UK Research Funding to Reward Economic Benefits
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The UK government is developing a new scheme, the Research Excellence Framework (REF), to assess university research proposals and allocate public funds for research. The scheme is being developed in collaboration ...
Raising interest rates in Australia the wrong move, says UWS expert
Nov 07, 2007 |
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The decision today to raise interest rates by a quarter of a per cent was an overreaction by the Reserve Bank of Australia to what it perceived as an "overheating" economy, says a University of Western Sydney economist.
Britain plans to expand TB test for visa
Jul 25, 2007 |
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The British government plans to expand a pilot program now requiring visitors from seven countries with high rates of tuberculosis to be tested.
Gambling ban would reverse recession, new book says
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Legalized gambling is weighing down a global economy already mired in its deepest downturn since the Great Depression, according to a new collection of research that renews decades-old calls to outlaw betting.
Controlling neglected tropical diseases may be key to US foreign policy
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Stating that neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) not only promote poverty but also destabilize communities, former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Sabin Vaccine Institute President Peter Hotez call upon ...
Father-son team says positive gains can be made in 'psychological wealth'
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 08, 2009 |
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A focus on psychological wealth rather than financial wealth can help people get through today's tough times, according to two of the world's leading psychological experts on happiness. More money makes people feel better ...
Humanity in transition
Sep 13, 2005 |
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2005, Joel Cohen says, is the midpoint of a historic decade. Before this decade, young people always outnumbered older people; rural residents always outnumbered city dwellers; and the median number of women per child always ...
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