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Global Health Security Index and COVID-19 pandemic mortality 2020-2021: a comparative study of islands and non-islands across 194 jurisdictions. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Boyd M, Baker MG, Wilson N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Decarbonization Politics for All: Means‐Tested Social Assistance, Eco‐Social Values, and Public Support for Increased Fossil Fuel Taxes in Europe

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many climate change mitigation policies face public opposition, especially when they impose visible costs on households and are perceived as unfairly regressive. This country‐comparative study examines specific social policy instruments that may help build public support for increasing fossil fuel taxes in Europe.
Arvid Lindh, Kenneth Nelson
wiley   +1 more source

Financial sustainability and the incorporation of technologies in the Brazilian Unified Health System: advances, challenges, and perspectives. [PDF]

Sao Paulo Med J
Faria GF, Pêgo-Fernandes PM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Using Local Expert Knowledge to Measure Prices: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Vietnam

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many countries lack spatially disaggregated consumer price data needed to estimate real inequality and spatial patterns of poverty. Such data are especially absent in poor countries where weak infrastructure and high transport costs create large price variation over space.
John Gibson, Trinh Le
wiley   +1 more source

Economic burden of Chagas disease in Latin American countries: a population-based cost-of-illness analysis from the RAISE study. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Am
Andrade MV, Noronha KVMS, de Souza A, Julião NA, Motta-Santos AS, Franco Braga PE, Bracarense H, Alves do Santos AB, Nascimento BR, Eloah Machado Í, Martins-Melo FR, Molina I, Perel P, Geissbühler Y, Demacq C, Castro Jaramillo HE, Echeverría LE, Principato MB, Aguilera Mora LF, Fernandez ML, Nina Calisaya JJ, Pinho Ribeiro AL.   +21 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Limitation of the Purchasing-Power Parity Theory

The Limitation of the Purchasing-Power Parity Theory
application/pdf Bulletin of University of Osaka Prefecture. Ser. D, Sciences of economy, commerce and law.
openaire  

The Role of Skills and Tasks in Gender Gaps in Latin America

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore gender gaps in the labor market in Latin America, incorporating two relevant factors often overlooked: skills and the type of tasks performed at work. The study is based on data from the 2018 Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) for four Latin American countries.
Cristian Bonavida, Leonardo Gasparini
wiley   +1 more source

Reusable multicriteria decision model to evaluate the integrated sustainability impacts of different alternatives of dietary substitutions. [PDF]

PLoS One
Pires SM, de Melo JF, Redondo HG, Assunção R, Boué G, Biasini B, Cozzi E, Jolliet O, Menozzi D, Vieira ACL.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Lower birth rate, greater female dementia risk: global and regional patterns and public health implications. [PDF]

Future Sci OA
You W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Long‐term effects of economic depressions on wealth

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the long‐term effects of economic depressions – defined as multi‐year peak‐to‐trough GDP declines of at least 10 percent – experienced until young adulthood on the wealth distribution and portfolio allocation of older individuals in Europe.
Viola Angelini, Irene Ferrari
wiley   +1 more source