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This book uses an economic approach to analyze the socioeconomic causes and consequences of mental health disorders in China, with a special focus on mental depression. Based on a nationally representative dataset, we first investigate the prevalence and distribution of depression and depressive symptoms among Chinas adult population, and then use several econometric methods to estimate the multi-dimensional disease burden of the mental disorder, such as its direct medical costs, its indirect economic costs, and its hidden costs on social trust and life satisfaction. In addition, we specifically address the socioeconomic determinants of mental health by examining how the relative and absolute economic status may determine peoples mental depression. Lastly, we propose an analytical framework to evaluate the four major hurdles that cause the treatment gaps of mental health care, and discuss the policy options to overcome such hurdles and to address the unmet mental healthcare needs in China and other developing countries. The book may facilitate our understanding on the complex determinants and implications of the rising prevalence of mental health disorders in developing countries like China. In addition to the students, teachers, and researchers in the fields of health economics and public health, the book may also be of interest to health policy makers and non-government agencies who are concerned with addressing the global mental healthcare challenges using economic policy tools

Prior research suggests that neoliberal policies are inherently unpopular, politically hazardous, and consequently dependent upon the existence of strong and relatively autonomous governments. This study reassesses the political costs and benefits of market-oriented reform in Latin America. The findings suggest that neoliberal policies are less the product of the triumph of technocratic expertise over political calculus than of the structure of political incentives and opportunities created by broader sets of factors, including economic circumstances, structural conditions, pluralist pressures, institutional constraints, and international linkages. (DSE/DÜI)

The Malmquist index is used to measure the impact of military technology transfer on economic growth. This index can be decomposed into two components: efficiency change and technical change. Given the aggregate production function, the effect of technology diffusion on growth is measured by efficiency change. The shift in aggregate production function due to innovative activities is measured by technical change. An analysis of 16 American and European countries over the period 1978‐1994 reveals that the total impact of arms trade on growth, measured in terms of the Malmquist index, varies across countries. Contrary to common belief the findings of this study do not suggest that industrial countries have more efficient utilization offoreign military technology than do developing countries. The evidence also shows that the difference in total impact among countries is primarily due to the differences in efficiency change, not technical change.

Economic Reforms and Social Exclusion is an analytical study that focuses on the socially marginalized and excluded groups in India since the onset of liberalization. It examines how liberal economic reforms have impacted socio-economic categories-caste, tribe and religious minorities-subjecting them to further deprivation. The book offers a novel approach to the study of economic reforms through philosophical and theoretical arguments on issues such as civil society, religion, caste and alienation. Case studies of handloom weavers, VRS workers and the temperance movement give this study empir

This issue combines an analysis of recent developments in the Russian economy with discussions of two critical issues for economic policy: achieving diversified growth and accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The conclusions are rather optimistic. There is much that the Russian government can do to ensure sustainable and diversified growth, and this would not require a substantial change in course from the basic reform and policy strategy that has been pursued by the government since 2000. The draft Medium Term Social and Economic Program of the Government appears to be a promising document in this regard. An analysis based on a computable general equilibrium model of the Russian economy confirms that WTO accession should benefit the vast majority of households in the country, including the poor.

The current stage of development of Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries indicates that these states are being forced not only to reindustrialize, but to industrialize their economies almost from scratch, since their industries, for known political reasons, were completely destroyed or are technologically obsolete. This article investigates innovative factors in the development of reindustrialization processes in the countries of the EAEU based on the development and implementation of targeted national policy. The study puts forward a hypothesis about the existence of a dependence between the rates of innovative development of countries, on the one hand, and foreign direct investment and research and development (R&D) expenditures, as well as trends in industrial production development, on the other, as a summary indicator of the reindustrialization of the national economy. To confirm the hypothesis, the following methods were used: statistical analysis, which allowed the primary processing of data that describe the dynamics of indicators of innovative development of countries and its factors, and a comparative analysis of the innovative development of the countries of the EAEU, which constitute the object of this study. The first part provides a sequential analysis of changes in specific indicators describing the innovative development of the countries under consideration, as well as factors that, according to the hypothesis, have a significant impact on it, thereby enabling the evaluation of the general trends in the dynamics of innovative processes within the selected object of this study. In the second part, through the establishment of correlations between the factors and results of the innovative development of countries, measures are proposed to improve the national policy of innovative development and reindustrialization.

Survey of the Malaysian rubber sector and poverty trends 1970-83 and the NEP (new economic policy) trusteeship system with special reference to FELDA (Federal Land Development Agency). The paper concludes that in Malaysia, despite policy declarations under the NEP strategy, poverty in the rubber sector has not been eradicated. (DÜI-Sen)