Cancer and gross-domestic-product on health expenditure (GDPHE) are critical issues for major developed countries (MDC). Each country's economic input, GDPHE 1980–2005 is contrasted with clinical ...

In past columns, I have highlighted sites that provide information about countries, including columns about the BBC Country Profiles and Worldstatesmen.org and WorldInformation.com and the Economist ...

Editor’s Note: President Obama addressed the British Parliament on Wednesday as part of his six-day, four-country tour of Europe. Dubbed as one of the key events of his trip, the president talked ...

To understand the fundamentals of a country’s policies or to pass judgement on them, how useful is it to contrast them with the behaviour of individual persons? I asked myself this question recently ...

COMPARING COUNTRIES On the whole, people living in different countries benefit economically when they co-operate with each other, through international trade, capital flows and labour migration. Most ...

Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 91, No. 5, Special Issue on Inequality and Poverty: American and International Perspectives (December 2010), pp. 1390-1404 (15 pages) Objective. We offer an alternative ...

Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines. Covid-19 fatality rate Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule Social Distancing and Government Borrowing School re-opening, Germany’s ...

Misery finds the most company across these down-and-out nations. Zimbabwe was named the most miserable country on Steve Hanke’s Annual Misery Index (HAMI) this month out of 157 analyzed. The 2022 ...

Hip fracture rates increase with age, especially in women; rates in younger and older patients are not correlated, perhaps reflecting differences in the aetiology of hip fracture When comparing ...

Ben is a writer who's obsessed with all things PlayStation, Pokemon, motorsport, and sci-fi. No relation to the Harry Potter villain. (Probably) For the release of Final Fantasy 16, Square Enix has ...