An essay is presented on the ethics of wealth and economic inequality, which are important in the creation of a humane way of global life. The author discusses several issues concerning wealth such as the number of children living in the slums, the income of the richest people, and concerns...
2. This continuous pattern raises concerns about the potential impacts of climate change and its associated socioeconomic costs. Notable effects of heat stress are on human health and labour productivity. On the one hand, global heat stress makes it difficult for ...
While bats are tremendously important to global ecosystems, they have been and continue to be threatened by loss of habitat, food, or roosts, pollution, bat diseases, hunting and killing. Some bat species have also been implicated in the transmission of
For long, economists have analysed the economic impacts of MNCs, while a parallel strand of work in political science, business ethics and international law investigates the repercussions MNC operations on human rights. Despite the significant relatedness and complementarities, these two bodies of ...
(2011). The social and economic impacts of cognitive enhancements. In G. Kahane, J. Savulescu, & R. Ter Meulen (Eds.), Enhancing human capacities (pp. 92–112). Oxford: Wiley and Blackwell.Sandberg, A. and Savulescu, J.: The Social and Economic Impacts of Cognitive Enhancement. In ...
However, inconsistencies in the reporting of disaster events and methodological difficulties quantifying their impacts, mean that disaster databases are prone to gaps in data availability3,4. As a result, the scope and reliability of statistical inferences which can be made from disaster data are ...
(FGLS) model, and the two-step general method of moment (the two-step GMM), our research demonstrates how economic complexity and close proximity to a product have varied nonlinear impacts on circularity. We do, however, offer empirical proof that, particularly over the long term, a country...
This study analyses the socio-economic determinants of the short-term fertility plans of Italian women and men living as couples, before and shortly after
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