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INCOME AND HAPPINESS The idea of happiness and what makes one happier, is drawing a great deal of scholarly attentions. Happiness can also be determined by how satisfied one feels in his/her life. Graham, Zhou, and Zhang (2017), observed that, using data from the Chinese Livelihood survey, mental health hugely affects happiness, whereas physical health significantly impacts mental health (p.242). Demir (2010) found that the quality of mother and best friend relationships were the predictors

Demographic and socio-economic changes effect cities, its economy and ultimately the country as a whole. Changes in demographics tells us if an area is losing or gaining population and may act accordingly to help it survive. Family patterns change over a period of time as more women go out for jobs rather than stay at home. As medical field advances, the life span of human increases and these changes can show that the median age of the population is growing. Setting up of new industries or business

of the fastest growing economies in the world (Robinson, 2015). Hugely because of the oil reserves found in the country, Kazakhstan has benefited from averaging 8% growth rates since 2000 for their GDP and has given significant rise to the per capita income (International Monetary Fund, 2013, p. 3). These large oil reserves have given many countries great interest in the country and continue to provide money to this region to help ensure their own interests are secure in regards to providing oil

The prior-saving approach to finance development states that saving is a prerequisite of investment, so the first task is to increase the level of savings to finance investment as this approach believes that savings will readily find investment outlets (Thirlwall, 2003). Accordingly, the ability of carrying-out investments, as a cornerstone of any economic development process, is based primarily on the ability of attracting and mobilizing domestic and foreign savings, where savings are necessary

prosperous on the surface, the realities of time contradicted such notions; in fact, it can be clearly stated that this decade should not be judged as an era of wealth. Inequality was rampant in society at this time, especially when it comes to stark income differences between the upper, middle and lower classes. While it can be said that the upper classes, who make up a mere 1% of the population enjoyed most of these materialistic luxuries, the vast majority of the American population was barely getting

Summarize: The main argument in Hanley’s Everyday Things in Premodern Japan, is that the standard of living is an inaccurate way to evaluate the pre-industrialization of Japan. Hanley breaks down her argument by explaining it in three suitable subparts. She explains that the standard of living is an insufficient way to indicate how people lived during that period, an insufficient way of examining sine qua nons of the industrialization, and an insufficient way to set side by side with other industrialized

$396.0 bn $ 278.8 bn Russia $1,089,144 bn $414.0 bn $542.5 bn $358.1 bn India $1,106,702 bn $309.0 bn $309.1 bn $500.3 bn China $3,320,652 bn $2,031.0 bn $2,021.0 bn $1,780.0 bn South Africa $221,990 bn $ 95.27 bn $101.2 bn $106.8 bn Country GDP per capital(PPP) Literacy rate Life expectancy (years.avg.) HDI Brazil $15,941 95.5% 76.5 .744

Child labor is not necessary if the income from adults is high enough to provide a reasonable standard of living. Almost without exception adult labor is a substitution for child labor. Child labor is often justified by an attitude that says the children are developing good habits that will

www.ccsenet.org/gjhs Global Journal of Health Science Vol. 4, No. 1; January 2012 The Effects of HIV/AIDS Scourge on Production and Income among Rural Households in Adamawa State of Nigeria Iya, I. B., Purokayo, S. G., & Gabdo Yusuf Department of Economics Federal University of Technology, Yola, Nigeria Received: October 12, 2011 doi:10.5539/gjhs.v4n1p245 Abstract The paper investigates the determinants and the impact of HIV/AIDS on households in Adamawa State. 120 respondents affected with HIV/AIDS

Introduction On August 8th, 1988 Wayne Gretzky gave a tearful farewell to Edmonton after being traded to the Los Angeles Kings. The Gretzky trade had effects beyond the two teams. The landscape of the National Hockey League changed in the years following the Gretzky trade. Ten years after the trade Anaheim, Dallas, Phoenix, Miami, San Jose, and Tampa were awarded NHL franchises. The National Hockey League’s southern expansion was partially driven by the attendance increase the Los Angeles Kings experienced