decisions and income growth of lowered life expectancy as a result of diseases such as HIV/AIDS. We show that an increased … probability of premature death leads to less investment in human capital, and consequently slower growth. We also empirically … investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa and the role of health in the level of educational …

, which are one of the keys to the growth process: the economy can be discontinuously innovation-oriented due to the different …

to 18.5 kg/m2), (2)whether China’'s continuing economic growth leads to further increase in the prevalence of overweight …, and (3) whether China’'s economic growth alone can lead to commensurate decrease in its remaining underweight. Based on … the theoretical model in Lakdawalla and Philipson (2002), we focus on the effects of economic growth on weight through …

cost model are examined and the sustainability and futurepatterns of growth considered. …

We consider a neoclassical growth model with endogenous corruption. Corruption and wealth, which are co-determined in … corruption, and if indeed as suggested by a number of empirical studies corruption hampers growth, then how did rich countries …

drive FDI flows by source country, while greenfield investments are seen to respond more to the growth potential of the …