Being unemployed, having leg ulcerations, more frequent painful crises, and frequently visiting SCU for health care were all positively associated with depression in those with SCD.
More frequent painful crises and visiting the unit more frequently were positively associated with depression.
Paul Krugman of Princeton University presented a paper to the conference saying that economists were suffering from "persistent if low-grade anxiety" about the world economy, and said that one of the by-products of increased economic integration among countries would be more frequent financial crises.
So while I can't give a number on the trade deficit, I would say that the kind of globalization that we have right now, which in some ways expands the pie, but does so at high costs to the poor, to many poor, to rising inequality, to more frequent financial crises, and to a growing environmental catastrophe.
The WHOQOL-Bref has shown significantly lower scores in those who have more frequent painful crises.
Strong support is found for the hypothesis that reforms are more frequent in crisis years and that political costs matter: during election years, reforms tend to be less numerous, while the fact that elections took place in the previous year has a positive effect on reforms, albeit not significantly.
The group, the National Research Council, says in a study commissioned by the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies that clusters of apparently unrelated events exacerbated by a warming climate will create more frequent but unpredictable crises in water supplies, food markets, energy supply chains and public health systems.
Banking and twin crises with both banking and currency crises are more frequent than in every period except the interwar years, and currency crises are much more frequent.
Some have supported James Tobin's (1996) proposal for a tax on international currency exchanges on the grounds that capital markets are currently structured in a way that makes significant shocks and financial crises more frequent and more painful than they need be, often causing grave and lasting harm to poorer and more vulnerable economies.
"This is at the very heart of building the resilience we now see as the best defence against more frequent and more severe crises," she said.
