1. Introduction . Increasing numbers of Americans are obese, where obese is def... Food Stamp Program participation among low-income women (but not men) is significantly associated wi... BMI exceeds the obesity threshold) using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) data. I focuus the analysis on subsamples of income-eligible males and females...
Are recent trends in international law supporting child rights and promoting neoliberal economic reforms complementary or contradictory? To answer this question, we identify the component parts of child rights mobilization, recent global economic reforms, and child rights outcomes to theorize the particular relationships among them. Focusing on child survival and development rights in 99 poor and middle-income countries from 1983 to 2001, we find that countries' acquiescence to established international law concerning economic rights influences the successful implementation of most of these rights, while the ratification of child rights treaties does not show an effect during the period studied. National links to child rights nongovernmental organizations are also associated with improv...
... in opposition to one another? In this analysis, we draw on theories of the global system to sugge...By 1995, the World Bank faced increasing criticism for its conditionality requirements from...
... of the parasite in the mosquito (National Research Council, 2001). Both vector (i.e., female... in the mosquito vectors, thereby increasing the proportion of infective vectors (Ambu et al., ...People of all ages and all income levels (e.g., rich and poor) within malaria-endemi... was 1.3% (Cross-country regression analysis) lower per year than that of non-malarious countri...
... reality food assistance programs are increasingly a long-term answer for the hungry. More than two-t... since 1980, even before the most recent economic recession (Berner and O'Brien, 2004; Berner, Ozer,... on the major entitlement program for low income households. States, through welfare reform, requir..., 1998; Blank and Ruggles, 1997), this analysis considers what factors influence how long an indiv... North Carolina ranked higher than the national average for rates of both food insecurity (13.8 pe...
...The analysis section presents descriptive statistics and draws ... to address development issues in an increasing global economy (Dolan 1990; Stephens and Wikstrom ... many different actors, such as parts of national, provincial and local government, political and so... cities (non-white, poverty, population, income, age, and population change) was conducted. The re...
... the highest ridership total since the National Railroad Passenger Corporation started operations ... quarter of 2011, the company reported net income of $3.1 million, or 4 cents per share, compared to...CWT's analysis confirms that prices in most geographic areas and ...At the same time, economic uncertainty continues in some parts of the world aand has resurfaced in others, prompting increasing questions on exactly what 2012 holds in store for ...
... lies in their recent reliance upon increasingly complex securities packages that were designed to ... of their small-business lending to lower-income areas. Given this potential vulnerability of regio... to control for the influence of regional economic conditions on bank performance. . LITERATURE REVIE... including multivariate statistical analysis/discriminant analysis (Altman et al, 1977; Sinkey,... more influence than does the non-local (national) market. Consequently, this study will attempt to ...
... a housing price bubble burst, while, increasing credit risks spreads and inhibiting normal flows o... trap in past business cycles of various national economies, the current U.S. economic and financial..., Y and r denote the real aggregate money income, and the nominal interest rate, respectively. . As...
... This includes developing and overseeing national standards for the production and handling of agric... are doing this very complex regulatory analysis and process that we go through that every step in ... route to go, I'm glad that you are increasing those partnerships, but it seems a little bit inco... is better nutrition, especially for low income Americans in rural and urban deserts throughout th... I understand that you all are doing an economic analysis on the rule which of course I think shoul...
... poor credit histories and those with low-incomes. Banks and other financial institutions have incre... relationships; specifically, the increasing number of foreclosures and loan delinquencies. Tak... become more prevalent with the recent national policy emphasis to increase homeownership. The fou...However, their micro-analysis of the specific type of lending laws indicates a m... to national banks of 1.793 is economically meaningful as well. . It is important to place thi...
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