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Back in 1990, the World Bank defined an "absolute poverty" line. It was based on the actual poverty lines as chosen by the governm...

Markets for beer, wine and spirits offer can patterns of broad cultural interest--and for the college teacher, may serve to attract the atte...

If you go back 70 years, the share of women and men living together before marriage was under 1%. If  you go back 50 years, it was less than...

Remittances are money sent back to a home country by emigrants. On a global basis, remittances to developing countries topped $400 billion i...

Canada became the second country to legalize recreational use of marijuana today. The first was Uruguay, back in 2013. However, t he Urug...

For economists, "prime-age" refers to the ages between 25-54, which is post-school and pre-retirement for most workers. Didem Tüze...

For most of us, most of the everyday health care we get is from a primary care doctor. But there's a limited number of primary care doct...