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Development Studies
Laxita Soontha, Mohammad Younus Bhat
Summary: The study reveals that forest fires and other environmental factors increase healthcare spending, while renewable energy usage can lower healthcare costs. This study highlights the urgency of addressing environmental degradation.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Muhammad Haseeb, Sebastian Kot, Hafezali Iqbal Hussain, Fakarudin Kamarudin
Summary: The study finds that natural resources have a positive and significant impact on economic growth in most Asian countries, except India, where the impact is negative and significant. The results suggest that a higher rent of natural resources leads to higher economic performance in the selected Asian economies.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
George S. Atsalakis, Elie Bouri, Fotios Pasiouras
Summary: The study utilized a quantile on quantile (QQ) approach to analyze the relationship between natural disasters and economic growth. Results showed a mostly negative relationship between natural disaster intensity and economic growth, with occasional positive effects depending on different quantile combinations. The magnitude of the effect varied across different combinations of economic growth and natural disaster quantiles.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Ikram Jebabli, Amine Lahiani, Salma Mefteh-Wali
Summary: Motivated by COP26, this study examines the interplay between CO2 emissions and economic growth in G7 countries. Using the quantile-vector autoregression approach, we analyze 202 years of data from 1820Q1 to 2021Q4 to explore the distributional asymmetric interdependence between emissions and growth. Our findings demonstrate that the dependence structure is mainly asymmetric and time-varying, with differences in the dynamics of CO2 emissions and growth among the G7 countries.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Evelyn Agba Tackie, Hao Chen, Isaac Ahakwa, Samuel Atingabili
Summary: This article explores the dynamic relationship among economic growth, industrialization, medical technology, and healthcare expenditure in West Africa. The study finds that industrialization is a major determinant of healthcare expenditure, while medical technology and the aged population also have an impact on healthcare expenditure.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Xiaocang Xu, Qingqing Wang, Chang Li
Summary: With the aging population, there is an increasing burden of health expenditure in China. Age, family size, self-rated health status, and income significantly impact the health expenditure of urban families. The influence of dependency burden and other variables on health expenditure varies across different regions.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Qi Yang, Yueji Zhu, Fang Wang
Summary: This study examines the impact of farmers' social media participation on the adoption intensity of low-carbon agricultural practices (LAPs) and discusses the economic performance of LAPs based on data collected from banana farmers in Southern China. The results show that social media participation has a positive and significant effect on farmers' adoption intensity of LAPs. Additionally, adoption of LAPs can increase household income, especially for those at higher income levels, while social media participation can significantly increase household income for farmers at lower income levels. These findings highlight the important role of social media in spreading LAPs among farmers and increasing income growth in developing countries.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Bo Yang, Muhammad Usman, Atif Jahanger
Summary: This study examines the impacts of industrialization, economic growth, and globalization on ecological footprint and healthcare expenditures in the top ten countries with the highest healthcare expenditures. Findings suggest that industrialization, healthcare expenditures, and economic growth contribute to increased pollution levels, while globalization and urbanization processes reduce environmental damage. Additionally, there are bidirectional causal relationships between healthcare expenditures, urban population, industrialization, and ecological footprint.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kuebranur cebi Karaaslan, Yahya Alguel
Summary: The aim of the study is to determine the factors that affect the entire energy expenditure of households in Turkey, including heating, electricity, kitchen needs, and fuel needs for transportation, and to determine the quantities of these effects. The results of the study provide valuable information to policy makers and decision makers in order to minimize the risks originating from energy import and expenditure by revealing the factors affecting the energy expenditure of households in Turkey.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jiping Wei, Syed Rahim, Shizhen Wang
Summary: This study investigates the impact of various economic, non-economic, governance, and environmental indicators on human health in seven emerging economies. The results show that economic growth, government health expenditure, and human capital significantly reduce human health disasters, while greenhouse gas emissions and regulatory quality are positively correlated with human health issues.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Abdelmonem Lotfy Mohamed Kamal, Mostafa E. AboElsoud
Summary: This paper investigates the sources and contributions to economic growth in Egypt from 1991 to 2019, using the augmented Solow model and quantile regression econometric modeling. The results show that productivity and human capital accumulation have become the most important sources of growth, while the deficiency in savings rate and population growth rate have hindered capital and human capital accumulation. The study also reveals the presence of disguised unemployment and the exhaustion of job creation potential in the Egyptian economy. Weak growth performance is attributed to the lack of investment in physical and human capitals, and economic growth is closely linked to trends in human capital, productivity, and capital, influenced by savings volatility and population growth rates.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Cheng-Feng Wu, Tsangyao Chang, Chien-Ming Wang, Tsung-Pao Wu, Meng-Chen Lin, Shian-Chang Huang
Summary: Improving health is important for enhancing workforce abilities, efficiency, and quality of life, but healthcare expenditure varies significantly among Asian countries. Governments should consider both positive and negative effects when evaluating the impact of healthcare expenditure on economic growth.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Economics
Eric Evans Osei Opoku, Olufemi Adewale Aluko
Summary: The impact of industrialization on the environment is complex and heterogeneous, with increases in environmental degradation in the 10-30th quantiles and reductions in the 40-90th quantiles. To prevent environmental degradation, manufacturing firms should adopt greener technologies and enforce environmental regulations more strictly.
STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yaofei Liu, Muhammad Sibt e Ali, Phan The Cong
Summary: To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 13, focusing on clean energy and climate actions, enhancing green growth (GGDP) is seen as a viable approach. However, there are barriers, especially in developing countries, that hinder the attainment of high GGDP. Economic policy uncertainty (EPU) could be one of the constraints, although there is limited literature on the relationship between EPU and GGDP. This study investigates whether EPU hampers GGDP in BRICS countries using a panel dataset from 1990 to 2020. The findings from panel quantile regression indicate that EPU has a negative impact on GGDP across all quantiles, with a stronger effect at lower quantiles and a weaker relationship at higher quantiles. Based on these results, policymakers are advised to reduce uncertainty in economic policies to promote GGDP.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Thermodynamics
Ying Liu, Boqiang Lin, Bin Xu
Summary: The study reveals that fossil energy abundance has different impacts on economic growth and CO2 emissions across different quantile provinces, while renewable energy abundance generally has a positive impact on economic growth and CO2 emissions.
Article
Medical Informatics
Lu Lin Zhou, Joseph Owusu-Marfo, Henry Asante Antwi, Maxwell Opuni Antwi, Arielle Doris Tetgoum Kachie, Sabina Ampon-Wireko
BMC MEDICAL INFORMATICS AND DECISION MAKING
(2019)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Lulin Zhou, Sabina Ampon-Wireko, Lamini Dauda, Xinglong Xu, Maxwell Opuni Antwi, Ebenezer Larnyo
Summary: This study compares the efficiency of healthcare expenses in emerging economies based on income levels, finding that research and development as well as the number of physicians have a positive impact on health efficiency, while corruption has a negative impact.
Article
Health Policy & Services
Lulin Zhou, Maxwell O. Antwi, Henry A. Antwi, Ama Boafo-Arthur, Tehzeeb Mustafa
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2020)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Lulin Zhou, Joseph Owusu-Marfo, Henry Asante Antwi, Maxwell Opuni Antwi, Xinglong Xu
Meeting Abstract
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sylvester Kaminta, Mark Appenteng, Gloria Adjapong, Jerry Aseidu-Larbi, Augustine Ocloo, Olga Quarsie, Doris Kumadoh, Abdul-Salim Musah, Maxwell Antwi, Francis Ahireng, Felix Mills-Robertson
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
(2018)
Meeting Abstract
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Felix C. Mills-Robertson, Cynthia I. Onyeka, Samuel C. Tay, Willimas Walana, Salomey Acheampong, Michael Odame, Maxwell Antwi
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
(2015)