Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

世界経済・社会統計 = World development indicators

Some cases of Alzheimer's disease are inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Genetic linkage studies have mapped a locus (AD3) associated with susceptibility to a very aggressive form of Alzheimer's disease to chromosome 14q24.3. We have defined a minimal cosegregating region containing the AD3 gene, and isolated at least 19 different transcripts encoded within this region. One of these transcripts (S182) corresponds to a novel gene whose product is predicted to contain multiple transmembrane domains and resembles an integral membrane protein. Five different missense mutations have been found that cosegregate with early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease. Because these changes occurred in conserved domains of this gene, and are not present in normal controls, they are likely to be causative of AD3.

Cloning of a gene bearing missense mutations in early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease

https://steadystate.org/wp-content/uploads/Stern_KuznetsCurve.pdf

The Rise and Fall of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

https://mimoza.marmara.edu.tr/~mtekce/Dinda_2004.pdf

Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis: A Survey

Poverty in most of Latin America is still more rural than urban. In Mexico, Central America and the Andean countries, more than 60 per cent of the poor live in rural areas, and their poverty is deeper than that in urban areas. Paradoxically, however, the most influential analysis on poverty has a strong urban orientation — leaving a big gap in understanding the nature and magnitude of rural poverty. The heterogeneity of the region’s rural poor — in education, per capita income, access to services, security of land tenure — makes this gap a big detriment when designing a strategy to alleviate rural poverty.

Fighting Rural Poverty in Latin America: New Evidence and Policy

Public investment and real-price supports

The author of this report provides cross-country empirical evidence on the relationship between trade and macroeconomic policy and economic growth. He finds that countries following sustainable strategies perform better than those following unsustainable strategies. Indeed, unsustainable policies hurt growth. Sustainable policies (as in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Malaysia) promote exports and lead to real exchange rates that are either fully aligned or even undervalued for prolonged periods of time but are relatively stable. Unsustainable policies (more common in developing countries) include polices that tax export and overvalue exchange rates for extended periods, leading to periodic balance of payments crises and a highly unstable real exchange rate. The author also finds that: (a) export promotion policies generate faster growth than policies that remove import restrictions; (b) economic instability and foreign debt are key determinants of capital growth; and (c) contrary to conventional belief, capital accumulation appears to be stimulated by direct export restrictions and does not seem to be directly affected by economic instability.

Ramon Lopez

Papers

Fighting Rural Poverty in Latin America: New Evidence and Policy

Public investment and real-price supports

How trade and macroeconomic policies affect economic growth and capital accumulation in developing countries

Comparison of Joule heating associated with high-speed solar wind between different models and observations

Structural Change, Poverty and Natural Resource Degradation