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Spatial Approach to Diseases of Affluence Epidemiology and Regional Economic Development

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2016
Diseases of affluence (of the 21st c.) by definition should have higher prevalence and/or mortality rates in richer and more developed countries than in poorer, underdeveloped states (where diseases of poverty are more common).
Olejnik Alicja, Żółtaszek Agata
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Economic Development and the Spread of Diseases of Affluence in EU Regions

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2017
Diseases of affluence (diseases of the twenty‑first century, Western diseases) by definition should have higher prevalence and/or mortality rates in richer and more developed countries than in poorer, underdeveloped states.
Agata Żółtaszek, Alicja Olejnik
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Key economic sectors for green job creation in Poland – an empirical analysis

Economics and Environment, 2023
In this study, we employed a stepwise empirical approach to identify economic sectors and analyze the regional potential for green job (GJ) creation in Poland.
Elżbieta Antczak, Artur Gajdos
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Health Inequalities Across The European Union Regions: A Beta-Convergence Approach

Comparative Economic Research, 2014
The European Union is currently facing a serious problem concerning the occurrence of significant health inequalities observed between particular member states as well as within these states.
Renata Jaworska
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Spatial Analysis Of Foreign Migration In Poland In 2012 Using Geographically Weighted Regression

Comparative Economic Research, 2014
Migration has a principal influence on countries’ population changes. Thus, the issues connected with the causes, effects and directions of people’s movements are a common topic of political and academic discussions.
Karolina Lewandowska-Gwarda
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Returns to Scale for EU Regions – evidence from the spatial panel model

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2017
Recent findings emphasise the importance of localised returns to scale for the regional growth as well as for the agglomeration processes. However, it is still not well established whether returns to scale are constant or increasing, and to what extent ...
Alicja Anna Olejnik
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The Idea of a ‘Just City’ – a Concept of an Aggregate Measure of Development in Polish Cities

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2023
The subject of the article is the ‘just city’ concept. Justice, greening and making cities productive in the long term are the main axes of the integrated development of modern cities.
Elżbieta Antczak, Agnieszka Rzeńca, Agnieszka Sobol   +2 more
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Integrating Perennial Groundcover in Corn and Soybean Acres: Impacts on U.S. Agriculture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable agricultural practices such as cover cropping can improve soil health, water quality, and carbon sequestration, yet U.S. adoption remains limited due to economic and operational barriers. We evaluate market and economic impacts of integrating perennial groundcover into U.S.
Sagar Dahal, Amani Elobeid, John Crespi
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Quantifying the green skills potential in the polish economy – An empirical analysis

Economics and Environment
In this study, we employ a stepwise empirical approach to identify key occupational groups for green job (GJ) creation in Poland. We use the operating register of economic entities (REGON) and Polish Labor Force Survey (BAEL) data from the period 2015 ...
Artur Gajdos, Elżbieta Antczak
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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