Since its independence, Sri Lanka has been lauded by researchers and policymakers for its human capital outcomes and has consistently been ahead of its regional peers. On the other hand, Vietnam continued to struggle with conflicts and other economic bottlenecks which hindered the development of...

Purpose The authors analyze the effects of political freedom and personal freedom on the spread of COVID-19 in a cross-country study. The authors also investigate how income inequality, urbanization and previous experience with a similar respiratory epidemic/pandemic, such as SARS and MERS,...

This study tries to discuss maximum oxygen consumption (V̇O2max) strategy and its importance to build up a healthy society worldwide. V̇O2max is an important predictive factor of cardiovascular health, morbidity, and all-cause mortality; and consider it as the gold standard measure of...

This paper provides a simple development mechanism for African nations, where economic development is low due to not only low level of physical capital but also poor social capital that leads to lot of conflicts. The study suggests for development of social capital, which is a broader concept...

GDP per capita is used as the basic measure of economic development and prosperity across the world. However, it is a limited measure of living standards, focussed on capturing changes in economic output per person and neglecting many things central to quality of life. Several alternative...

In this paper, we introduce a new variable called Human Assets and study its effects on economic growth both theoretically and empirically. The first part builds an endogenous growth model which demonstrates that Human Assets increase economic growth. The second part employs the new Dynamic...

This paper investigates the extent to which in-utero exposure to temperature shocks affects birth weight outcomes in Vietnam. Exploiting the variations across districts and conception timing within districts, we show that a one standard deviation increase in temperature relative to the local...