Just imagine for a moment that every drug that quietly kills, every disease that silently travels,
every form of pollution that roams the globe, every act of terrorism that destroys life …

Objective Little is known about the burden of osteoarthritis (OA) in Canada. This study was
undertaken to estimate the excess burden of OA in Ontario, the largest province in Canada. …

Background Cancer incidence and treatment-related costs are rising in Canada. We estimated
health care use and costs in the first year after diagnosis for patients with 7 common types …

Background Obesity is today’s principal neglected public health problem, as a rising proportion
of adults will succumb to the medical complications of obesity. However, little is known …

This work explores a new development paradigm whose central focus is on human well-being.
Increase in income is treated as an essential means, but not as the end of development, …

This paper summarizes some of the main issues related to the World Bank's basic-needs
oriented lending programme. In particular, based on country experience it discusses the …

In his 1972 Janeway Lectures at Princeton, James Tobin, the 1981 Nobel Prize winner for
economics, submitted a proposal for a levy on international currency transactions. The idea …

From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese
literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. …

Green hotels have grown in popularity due to customers' increased awareness of environmental
issues. This study aims to construct and evaluate a model that combines the theory of …

Greater South-South co-operation requires a major political initiative rather than technocratic
blueprints. Its ultimate success depends on a fundamental internal restructuring of Third-…