2024-03-29T15:32:14Z
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2022
2019-10-08T13:03:13Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2022/
Faculty Rewards and Education Portfolios: A Report on Faculty Perceptions
Yee-Yee, Hla
Gnanajothy, Ponnudurai
Chan, Tze-Haw
I00 - General
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
Many schools in the developed world have adopted portfolios in an attempt to address the scholarship of teaching. This is because of the atmosphere of “publish or perish” which pervades academia. Buying off teaching obligations with research dollars is an increasingly pervasive practice in many institutions and Faculty caught up in this system have generally gone along with it, focusing on the scholarship of discovery at the expense of the scholarship of integration, application, and teaching - little of which carries the financial consequence or peer recognition of sponsored research.1 Add to this the fact that many medical schools world wide have adopted teacher- intensive, integrated hybrid PBL curricula and the result is frustrated teachers who undergo occupational burnout.
An ideal faculty reward system should support the priorities and mission of the institution e.g. if improving the quality of teaching and learning is a high priority, then the tenure, promotion, and merit pay system must support quality efforts to redesign the curriculum, improve courses, and increase the effectiveness of teaching.2 Education Portfolios are not widely used in this part of the world, and few Faculty have even heard of the term “Education Scholarship”.
This study is a preliminary report on perception of the faculty rewards in place in their institution and their familiarity with the concept of education scholarship. A questionnaire was posted to Faculty of medical schools in Malaysia and also distributed to staff of the National University of Singapore, during an international conference. A total of 54 responses were collected from six institutions (14 were unidentified); representing a response rate of about twenty per cent. Thirty two were teaching in a hybrid curriculum; and 26 were clinical teachers. Thirty three had been in their respective institutions for more than three years.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2022/1/MPRA_paper_2022.pdf
Yee-Yee, Hla and Gnanajothy, Ponnudurai and Chan, Tze-Haw (2006): Faculty Rewards and Education Portfolios: A Report on Faculty Perceptions.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2068
2019-09-28T16:33:08Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2068/
Microcredit for self-employed disabled persons in developing countries
Mersland, Roy
I00 - General
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
Microcredit has become a popular instrument to promote economic empowerment among poor entrepreneurs, and is increasingly being recommended to improve economic rehabilitation among persons with disabilities. However, the majority of the advocates of microcredit for persons with disabilities seem not to be informed on the involved “rules of the game”. At the same time the microfinance community lacks information on disability issues. In this report we aim on closing the gap in knowledge and culture between the disability- and the microfinance communities. We apply resource based theory to analyze when microcredit for disabled persons is an appropriate tool and when it is not. We argue that asymmetric information between microfinance institutions and the disabled population is probably the main hindrance for increased penetration of microcredit services to disabled persons. We recommend disabled entrepreneurs with the necesarry resource base to be included as regular clients in mainstream MFIs or as regular members in self helping microfinance systems like ROSCAs. We provide lists of recommendations that are both easy to understand and to apply for MFIs, DPOs and donors. Due to the lack of theoretical and empirical knowledge available we see this report as a starting point and we advocate for increased research efforts within this field.
2005-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2068/1/MPRA_paper_2068.pdf
Mersland, Roy (2005): Microcredit for self-employed disabled persons in developing countries.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2229
2019-09-27T05:12:01Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2229/
الحقوق الاقتصادية والحق فى التنمية فى مصر
Alasrag, Hussien
I0 - General
I00 - General
I1 - Health
A summary of this paper was presented at the conference on "The Right To Development :20 Year After ,What Next", Sponsored by The National Council For Human Rights, Egypt, December 2006.
The purpose of this paper is to review and analysis The Economic Human Rights and The Right to Development in Egypt.. Economic Human Rights are considered one of the basic human rights. In spite of the reforms which have been taken to increase enjoying Economic Human Rights in Egypt, It still compare poorly with other developing countries. Nearly 43.9% of the Egypt’s population lives on less than $2a day, and 16.7% barely survive on less than $1 a day. The main findings of this paper is that Improving the investment climate ,Developing SMES in Egypt, equity and Social Security are essential to enjoying economic human rights and to provide jobs and opportunities for young people and to build a more inclusive, balanced, and peaceful community.
2006-12-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2229/1/MPRA_paper_2229.pdf
Alasrag, Hussien (2006): الحقوق الاقتصادية والحق فى التنمية فى مصر.
ar
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2764
2019-09-27T16:56:46Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2764/
حقوق الانسان الاقتصادية والحق فى التنمية فى الدول العربية
Alasrag, Hussien
I0 - General
I00 - General
With the turning globalization to become a "spirit of the age" with its free trade and the movement of capital and investments, the trend has been to the marginalization of certain economic and social rights for the benefit of other rights, especially that some consider that the civil and political rights of the individual Chariat state intervention in the face of mean understanding inversely to the economic and social rights, which means that State intervention, and community rights is the first of basic human rights, and that he could not work the other rights only to those rights, although that practice indicate that violations of human rights "fundamental" - in relation to economic and socio-due to government policies certain economic and social or failure in providing support for those affected. In spite of the serious and persistent attempts to strengthen and protect human rights and establish their values and disseminating awareness and ensure the practice, but the Arab society and suffer significantly from the weak state of human rights, particularly economic sanctions, notes the growing rates of unemployment and poverty in the Arab States, and accumulate their negative impact on the community of the proliferation of crimes social, and the high dependency ratio and a late age of marriage, as well as the security and psychological. . Which proves that the Arab society still has many of the major challenges that must be addressed quickly in the area of economic rights of citizens. The research aims to shed light on the situation of economic Fialdol Arab view to recommending the most important policies that will help to further the enjoyment of economic rights of Arab citizens.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2764/1/MPRA_paper_2764.pdf
Alasrag, Hussien (2007): حقوق الانسان الاقتصادية والحق فى التنمية فى الدول العربية.
ar
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3113
2019-09-27T22:29:22Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3113/
Prospettive per un nuovo Welfare.
Reggiani, Tommaso
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
D71 - Social Choice ; Clubs ; Committees ; Associations
D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory
I00 - General
D40 - General
D20 - General
"Exit, Voice, and Loyalty" (A.O. Hirschman 1970) is a theoretical concept derived from the work of Albert O. Hirschman (1970) which is focused on two essential options in organizatios and products decline, being "exit" and "voice".The basis concept is as follows: members of an organization, whether consumers , or any other kind of human grouping, have essentially two possible responses when they perceive that the producer/organization is demonstrating a decrease in quality or benefit to the consumer/member: they can EXIT (withdraw from the relationship-the standard market strategy); or, they can VOICE (attempt to repair or improve the relationship through communication of the complaint, grievance or proposal for change -the standard political strategy). In this article we apply this approach to welfare and health care markets, emphasizing the main importance of LOYALTY option (a mixed "voice-exit" strategy).
2007-03-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3113/1/MPRA_paper_3113.pdf
Reggiani, Tommaso (2007): Prospettive per un nuovo Welfare. Published in: Appunti di cultura e politica , Vol. vol. 2, No. march-april (2007) (26 April 2007): pp. 35-38.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4821
2019-09-27T13:02:08Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4821/
Human Development in India: Regional Pattern and Policy Issues
Majumder, Rajarshi
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
I00 - General
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
Development literature in the past decade has become more people centric with human development being projected as one of the 'ends' of development planning. The present paper tries to explore the trends, patterns and regional dimension of human development (HD) in India through construction of alternate HD indices for the districts of India. The association between HD indices and conventional measures like per capita income has been explored. Substantial inter-regional disparity in HD is observed. Probable reasons for such disparity have been inquired. Suggested policies to enhance HD include greater role of the State in provisioning of social infrastructure, especially to the hitherto marginalized groups.
2004
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4821/1/MPRA_paper_4821.pdf
Majumder, Rajarshi (2004): Human Development in India: Regional Pattern and Policy Issues. Published in: Indian Journal of Applied Economics , Vol. 2, No. 1 (2005)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5640
2019-09-29T04:31:50Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5640/
Economic Inequality and Health: Looking Beyond Aggregate Indicators
Böckerman, Petri
Johansson, Edvard
Helakorpi, Satu
Uutela, Antti
I00 - General
I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators. Overall, our results suggest that income inequality is not associated with increased morbidity in the population. The results for women differ to quite a large extent from those of men and the pooled sample. There is evidence that an increase in the Gini coefficient is negatively related to the probability of good physical health and no disability retirement. For men, relative income inequality is clearly not important for health.
2007-11-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5640/1/MPRA_paper_5640.pdf
Böckerman, Petri and Johansson, Edvard and Helakorpi, Satu and Uutela, Antti (2007): Economic Inequality and Health: Looking Beyond Aggregate Indicators.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6492
2019-09-29T10:11:31Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6492/
Determinants of Household Health Expenditure: Case of Urban Orissa
Bhabesh, Sen
Himanshu, Sekhar Rout
I00 - General
I1 - Health
The main objective of the paper is to increase awareness – not only among health researchers but also among policy makers and practitioners who use health research findings – about the influence of socioeconomic characteristics in terms of income and education on household health expenditures, as well as to encourage improved approaches. The study finds that income of the household has significant influence on its health expenditure where as the effect of education is insignificant. From the study it is found that as disposable income of the household increases, individual takes more care of his life, hence, health expenditure increases but at a particular level of income, due to high life risk, health expenditure becomes independent of income and perfectly elastic, which is termed as “High Life Risk Path (HLRP)”. The health expenditure during HLRP depends on household’s past saving and loanable capacity.
2007-07-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6492/1/MPRA_paper_6492.pdf
Bhabesh, Sen and Himanshu, Sekhar Rout (2007): Determinants of Household Health Expenditure: Case of Urban Orissa. Published in: Utkal Economic Papers , Vol. XIII, No. 1 (2007): pp. 17-23.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7422
2019-09-26T20:06:48Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7422/
Hacia la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional en Mesoamérica. Estado de la Inseguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional y notas sobre políticas para su superación.
Mora-Alfaro, Jorge
Fernández-Alvarado, Luis Fernando
I30 - General
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
D20 - General
H30 - General
F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies
N56 - Latin America ; Caribbean
M50 - General
H70 - General
D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
I00 - General
A14 - Sociology of Economics
O10 - General
I0 - General
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
A19 - Other
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
F41 - Open Economy Macroeconomics
Q10 - General
In this document we may find the main characteristics about the food security situation in the Mesoamerican countries. The insufficient nourishment and nutrition, as well the poverty condition that involve an important proportion of the Central American and Mexican population, produce and human and social hardship frame, with and special emphasis in the rural areas of these countries. In addition to the risks that this situation represents to the persons, families and communities living in these conditions, the general circumstances increase the vulnerability in relation with the social, political and economical stability of these nations. This is a clear obstacle to their growth economic processes and to the more prompt integration in the international economy development. Primarily, when the inclusion of the population in the development process, the distributive policies and the social cohesion are crucial components of the socioeconomic and political model adopted by the countries where these situation prevail.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7422/1/MPRA_paper_7422.pdf
Mora-Alfaro, Jorge and Fernández-Alvarado, Luis Fernando (2005): Hacia la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional en Mesoamérica. Estado de la Inseguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional y notas sobre políticas para su superación.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9741
2019-09-30T21:57:46Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9741/
Politica fiscala si output-urile sociale: cazul U.E.
Talpos, Ioan
Dima, Bogdan
Mutascu, Mihai
Enache, Cosmin
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
H30 - General
I00 - General
The aim of this paper is to emphasize how the correlations between fiscal policy and economic growth are manifesting in the U.E. case. After theoretical framework, the paper is organized as follows: Section 2 tries to provide a model at micro economic level for the interconnections between fiscal policy and economic growth and Section 3 looks for same empirical evidences for the EU 25 case. Finally, some conclusions are drawn and some limits of the proposed analysis are derived in Section 4.
2008-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9741/1/MPRA_paper_9741.pdf
Talpos, Ioan and Dima, Bogdan and Mutascu, Mihai and Enache, Cosmin (2008): Politica fiscala si output-urile sociale: cazul U.E.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9947
2019-09-27T10:20:54Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9947/
Workfare – The Reinvention of the Social
Herrmann, Peter
N10 - General, International, or Comparative
B30 - General
H00 - General
J20 - General
H10 - General
F00 - General
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
I00 - General
A14 - Sociology of Economics
The presentation aims on refocusing the mainstream debate, starting from looking at work as the central reference rather than seeing the constituting problem of workfare as one of social policy/social security. Of course, at the end the objective is a clearer understanding of how measures aiming on work and employment integration can meaningfully be utilised for responsible policy making. For this, an introductory step will look at what we are actually dealing with when we talk about workfare. Then a second step will very briefly present the EUropean political debate, returning thereafter to the question what we are actually dealing with when we talk about workfare. Then, in a third step, a paradox is presented: the gain of employment, going hand in hand with a loss of work. The conclusion will discuss in the fourth step workfare in the light of power and life.
2008-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9947/1/MPRA_paper_9947.pdf
Herrmann, Peter (2008): Workfare – The Reinvention of the Social.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10063
2019-10-01T16:42:23Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10063/
Precarity – Logical Consequence of Societies that Lost the Social
Herrmann, Peter
P19 - Other
H00 - General
P16 - Political Economy
B40 - General
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
P00 - General
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
J00 - General
I00 - General
P10 - General
A14 - Sociology of Economics
The essay proposes an alternative understanding of social policy, focussing on social quality and as such bringing together biographical and societal development and as well institutional and communal concerns. On this basis the author proposes a definition of precarity that goes far beyond insecurity of employment and its consequences for every day’s life. Thus, actually a definition of precarity is suggested that, while recognising the dimension of individual insecurity with its shortage of resources and the lack of power over the own life, points on a second and crucial dimension. This is the precarity of a society and its integrity due to the loss of its social dimension, being solely shaped by and engaged in individualism. Precarity, then, is the paradox of individuals loosing control in an otherwise individualistic, ‘privatised’ society.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10063/1/MPRA_paper_10063.pdf
Herrmann, Peter (2006): Precarity – Logical Consequence of Societies that Lost the Social.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10245
2019-09-29T20:26:08Z
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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration
Herrmann, Peter
van der Maesen, Laurent J.G.
I30 - General
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
D90 - General
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
H70 - General
J40 - General
J00 - General
B20 - General
I00 - General
H80 - General
B24 - Socialist ; Marxist ; Sraffian
D50 - General
I0 - General
D30 - General
L10 - General
B30 - General
H00 - General
B00 - General
A10 - General
I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
A30 - General
I39 - Other
H40 - General
B40 - General
J10 - General
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
D60 - General
The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity. Societal practice is the main challenge this concept tries to address. However, the danger is to introduce a new term, yet maintaining a discussion on traditional problems as poverty, marginalisation and exclusion. Our thesis is that these problems, far from being sufficiently tackled, are currently going along with and being adjunct to another challenge, namely precarity. Although the ‘old problems’ are not problems of individuals and expression of their ‘personal failure’, precarity – seen in the context of the theory of social quality – means a new stage of socialisation of the problems by further individualisation of the victims. In principle, we can say that this understanding of precarity is an expression of a further erosion of society, characterising especially periods of transformation of economic systems.
2008-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10245/1/MPRA_paper_10245.pdf
Herrmann, Peter and van der Maesen, Laurent J.G. (2008): Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10268
2019-10-28T19:03:06Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10269
2019-10-13T17:59:45Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10328
2019-10-01T05:16:26Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10328/
Health, lifestyle, Growth
Coppola, Gianluigi
I00 - General
O40 - General
In this paper we try to explain why lifestyle may have a positive impact on economic growth. First of all, we consider health affecting consumer’s utility and we define also a Health Production Function where health is the output and the consumer’s good are the inputs. In this approach we define lifestyle as the return to scale of the Health Production Function A first result is that an increase of consumer’s personal income may have a positive or a negative effect on health. According this result, we modify the Solow Growth Model. We consider health as labour-augmenting. The result is a semi-endogenous model in which the population growth affects positively the income per capita growth, if lifestyle is positive.
2008-09-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10328/1/MPRA_paper_10328.pdf
Coppola, Gianluigi (2008): Health, lifestyle, Growth.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10438
2019-09-28T01:38:19Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4931:493132
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10438/
The Effect of Childhood Economic Deprivation on Physical and Psychological health Status
Drakopoulos, Stavros A.
Lakioti, E
Theodossiou, Ioannis
I12 - Health Behavior
I00 - General
This paper investigates the effects of childhood deprivation on health at the later stages of the working age. The results indicate that there is an effect of childhood socioeconomic conditions on later adulthood overall health profile and second on the likelihood of suffering from a number of medical conditions. The risk of frail health is higher among adult respondents of the age between 50 to 65 who grew up in unfavourable socioeconomic circumstances, after controlling for their genetic risk traits, and their current educational and wealth status.
2008-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10438/1/MPRA_paper_10438.pdf
Drakopoulos, Stavros A. and Lakioti, E and Theodossiou, Ioannis (2008): The Effect of Childhood Economic Deprivation on Physical and Psychological health Status.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:11041
2019-09-27T21:47:50Z
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3332
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3134
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7375626A656374733D4E:4E36:4E3635
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7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D4F:4F32:4F3230
7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3331
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11041/
Policies for Industrial Learning in China and Mexico: Neo-developmental vs. Neo-liberal approaches
Shafaeddin, Mehdi
Gallaher, Kevin
O38 - Government Policy
O25 - Industrial Policy
O34 - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
I0 - General
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
L60 - General
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
L63 - Microelectronics ; Computers ; Communications Equipment
N65 - Asia including Middle East
O30 - General
F10 - General
L52 - Industrial Policy ; Sectoral Planning Methods
I00 - General
O20 - General
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
P52 - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
Abstract
Previous work has shown that the results of both China and Mexico’s export-led market reforms over the past quarter century have been strikingly different. In contrast to China, Mexico has not managed to increase the value added of its exports of manufactured goods and has subsequently had a difficult time competing with China in world markets. Building on this previous work, in this paper we conduct a comparative analysis of the role of government policies in industrial learning and the development of capabilities of indigenous firms in Mexico and China in order to shed light on why China is so outperforming Mexico. We find that Mexico and China have had starkly different approaches to economic reform in this area. Mexico’s approach to reform has been a “neo-liberal” one, whereas China’s could be described as “neo-developmental.” Mexico’s hands-off approach to learning has resulted in a lack of development of endogenous capacity of domestic firms, little transfer of technology, negligible progress in the upgrading of industrial production, and little increase in value added of exports. By contrast, China has deployed a hands-on approach of targeting and nurturing domestic firms through a gradual and trial and error led set of government policies.
2008-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11041/1/MPRA_paper_11041.pdf
Shafaeddin, Mehdi and Gallaher, Kevin (2008): Policies for Industrial Learning in China and Mexico: Neo-developmental vs. Neo-liberal approaches.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:11052
2019-09-26T08:12:31Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D49:4933:493330
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413130
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11052/
Natural hazards and disaster management in Pakistan
Khan, Himayatullah
Khan, Abuturab
I30 - General
I00 - General
A10 - General
The present study explains the various concepts used in disaster management. The concepts explained include: Disaster, Hazard, Vulnerability, Capacity, Risk and Disaster Management Cycle. In addition to the terminologies, the study also seeks to explain various types of disasters. It also gives a detail of various disasters occurred in Pakistan as well their management and mitigation strategies. The paper also discusses disaster management policy at national level as well as disaster management and national plans in Pakistan.
2008-10-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11052/1/MPRA_paper_11052.pdf
Khan, Himayatullah and Khan, Abuturab (2008): Natural hazards and disaster management in Pakistan.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12402
2019-10-26T17:22:37Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12670
2019-09-28T04:46:30Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D42:4230
7375626A656374733D44:4436
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413133
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413132
7375626A656374733D42:4234:423439
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413130
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413134
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12670/
Menschenrechte, Soziale Grundrechte, Sozialrecht – Versuch einer Näherung
Herrmann, Peter
B0 - General
D6 - Welfare Economics
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
B49 - Other
I00 - General
A10 - General
A14 - Sociology of Economics
The essay proposes in a brief sketch a methodology that allows assessing human rights beyond absolutism of abstract rights and relativist views which usually end in meaningless of the concept.
2009-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12670/1/MPRA_paper_12670.pdf
Herrmann, Peter (2009): Menschenrechte, Soziale Grundrechte, Sozialrecht – Versuch einer Näherung.
de
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:14056
2019-09-26T11:46:25Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D49:4931:493132
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3135
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D4A:4A30
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14056/
The Effects of the War in Iraq on Nutrition and Health: An Analysis Using Anthropometric Outcomes of Children
Guerrero Serdan, Gabriela
I12 - Health Behavior
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
I00 - General
J0 - General
The war in Iraq initiated in March 2003 triggered a wave of violence and turmoil in the country, exposing households to insecurity and to instability in daily life. The level of violence has varied across provinces, the south and centre areas being the most affected. Using the different intensities of the conflict across areas and the age at exposure to the war among cohorts, I analyze a possible causal effect of the war on nutritional outcomes of children. I use two empirical strategies, leading to very similar results. Estimates indicate that children born in areas affected by high levels of violence are 0.8 cm shorter than children born in low violence provinces. These results are robust to several specifications. Furthermore, the paper also addresses the channels through which the conflict has affected health and nutrition. The results have not only short-term policy implications, but also, given the empirical evidence of the impact of early child malnutrition on later education, labour and productivity outcomes, the results are of great importance for the future.
2009-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14056/1/MPRA_paper_14056.pdf
Guerrero Serdan, Gabriela (2009): The Effects of the War in Iraq on Nutrition and Health: An Analysis Using Anthropometric Outcomes of Children.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15840
2019-09-28T16:48:54Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D41:4132:413230
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D4C:4C32:4C3236
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15840/
Learning entrepreneurship in a multicultural context
Costa, Maria Teresa
Carvalho, Luísa
Sardinha, Boguslawa
A20 - General
I00 - General
L26 - Entrepreneurship
Nowadays learning entrepreneurship in higher education became an important issue. International experiences promote the relationship between students from several countries in a multicultural context.
In this sense it was developed an entrepreneurial game were tutors have the role to support students during the activities. The objective of entrepreneurial game objective is to create a business idea and develop a small business plan to present to the group.
The general aim of this paper is to describe this international experience of Setúbal Business week. The specific goals are:
- Understand how students learning in an international environment;
- Understand how international multicultural groups function;
- Evaluate how this kind of game improve a set of competencies, such as entrepreneurial spirit, capacity to work in an international team, oral communication, creativity, confidence and research skills;
- Evaluate business week performance in order to improve future events.
The study concludes with some recommendations and remarks about learning in an entrepreneurship in a multicultural environment.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15840/1/MPRA_paper_15840.pdf
Costa, Maria Teresa and Carvalho, Luísa and Sardinha, Boguslawa (2008): Learning entrepreneurship in a multicultural context.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15899
2019-09-26T14:20:36Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4931:493132
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3135
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D4A:4A30
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15899/
The Effects of the War in Iraq on Nutrition and Health: An Analysis Using Anthropometric Outcomes of Children
Guerrero Serdan, Gabriela
I12 - Health Behavior
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
I00 - General
J0 - General
The war in Iraq initiated in March 2003 triggered a wave of violence and turmoil in the country, exposing households to insecurity and to instability in daily life. The level of violence has varied across provinces, the south and centre areas being the most affected. Using the different intensities of the conflict across areas and the age at exposure to the war among cohorts, I analyze a possible causal effect of the war on nutritional outcomes of children. I use two empirical strategies, leading to very similar results. Estimates indicate that children born in areas affected by high levels of violence are 0.8 cm shorter than children born in low violence provinces. These results are robust to several specifications. Furthermore, the paper also addresses the channels through which the conflict has affected health and nutrition. The results have not only short-term policy implications, but also, given the empirical evidence of the impact of early child malnutrition on later education, labour and productivity outcomes, the results are of great importance for the future.
2009-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15899/4/MPRA_paper_15899.pdf
Guerrero Serdan, Gabriela (2009): The Effects of the War in Iraq on Nutrition and Health: An Analysis Using Anthropometric Outcomes of Children.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15924
2019-09-28T20:01:37Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D49:4931:493132
7375626A656374733D4A:4A31:4A3132
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D4A:4A31:4A3136
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15924/
Domestic violence and women’s health in India: evidence from health survey
Pandey, Manoj K.
Singh, Prakash
Yadav, Ram Ashish
I12 - Health Behavior
J12 - Marriage ; Marital Dissolution ; Family Structure ; Domestic Abuse
I00 - General
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
This paper examines the effect of domestic violence on the health of ever-married women of reproductive age group in India. Micro-level National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III) data for the year 2005-06 has been used in the study. We employ disease, body mass index, under nutrition level and anemia as the measures of health and physical, emotional and sexual forms of domestic violence are used as indicators of domestic violence at both national and state levels. We find that domestic violence has negative impact on the overall women’s health and nutritional status. However, national level results are not consistent with that of the states level. Based on the findings, we argue that the issue of domestic violence should be addressed in national and state level health policies and programmes.
2008-10-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15924/1/MPRA_paper_15924.pdf
Pandey, Manoj K. and Singh, Prakash and Yadav, Ram Ashish (2008): Domestic violence and women’s health in India: evidence from health survey.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15928
2019-09-28T09:33:37Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D49:4931:493132
7375626A656374733D4A:4A31:4A3132
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D4A:4A31:4A3136
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15928/
Domestic violence and women’s health in India: evidence from health survey
Pandey, Manoj K.
Singh, Prakash
Yadav, Ram Ashish
I12 - Health Behavior
J12 - Marriage ; Marital Dissolution ; Family Structure ; Domestic Abuse
I00 - General
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
This paper examines the effect of domestic violence on the health of ever-married women of reproductive age group in India. Micro-level National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III) data for the year 2005-06 has been used in the study. We employ disease, body mass index, under nutrition level and anemia as the measures of health and physical, emotional and sexual forms of domestic violence are used as indicators of domestic violence at both national and state levels. We find that domestic violence has negative impact on the overall women’s health and nutritional status. However, national level results are not consistent with that of the states level. Based on the findings, we argue that the issue of domestic violence should be addressed in national and state level health policies and programmes.
2008-10-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15928/1/MPRA_paper_15928.pdf
Pandey, Manoj K. and Singh, Prakash and Yadav, Ram Ashish (2008): Domestic violence and women’s health in India: evidence from health survey.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15957
2019-09-28T16:38:49Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D49:4931:493132
7375626A656374733D4A:4A31:4A3132
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D4A:4A31:4A3136
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15957/
Domestic violence and women’s health in India: evidence from health survey
Pandey, Manoj K.
Singh, Prakash
Yadav, Ram Ashish
I12 - Health Behavior
J12 - Marriage ; Marital Dissolution ; Family Structure ; Domestic Abuse
I00 - General
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
This paper examines the effect of domestic violence on the health of ever-married women of reproductive age group in India. Micro-level National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III) data for the year 2005-06 has been used in the study. We employ disease, body mass index, under nutrition level and anemia as the measures of health and physical, emotional and sexual forms of domestic violence are used as indicators of domestic violence at both national and state levels. We find that domestic violence has negative impact on the overall women’s health and nutritional status. However, national level results are not consistent with that of the states level. Based on the findings, we argue that the issue of domestic violence should be addressed in national and state level health policies and programmes.
2008-10-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15957/1/MPRA_paper_15957.pdf
Pandey, Manoj K. and Singh, Prakash and Yadav, Ram Ashish (2008): Domestic violence and women’s health in India: evidence from health survey.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16853
2019-09-26T13:07:44Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D5A:5A31:5A3130
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D44:4436:443630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16853/
How universal is happiness?
Veenhoven, Ruut
Z10 - General
I00 - General
D60 - General
There is a longstanding discussion on whether happiness is culturally relative or not. The following questions are addressed in that context:
1) Do we all assess how much we like our life?
2) Do we appraise our life on the same grounds?
3) Are the conditions for happiness similar for all of us?
4) Are the consequences of happiness similar in all cultures?
5) Do we all seek happiness?
6) Do we seek happiness in similar ways?
7) Do we enjoy life about equally much?
The available data suggest that all humans tend to assess how much they like their life. The evaluation draws on affective experience, which is linked to gratification of universal human needs and on cognitive comparison which is framed by cultural standards of the good life.
The overall appraisal seems to depend more on the former, than on the latter source of information. Conditions for happiness appear to be quite similar across the world and so are the consequences of enjoying life or not. There is more cultural variation in the valuation of happiness and in beliefs about conditions for happiness. The greatest variation is found in how happy people are.
2008-10-13
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16853/1/MPRA_paper_16853.pdf
Veenhoven, Ruut (2008): How universal is happiness?
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:19929
2021-01-22T19:45:07Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:20340
2021-01-23T22:02:05Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:20586
2019-09-26T12:22:41Z
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7375626A656374733D4D:4D31:4D3134
7375626A656374733D49:4930
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20586/
المسئولية الاجتماعية للشركات
Alasrag, Hussien
M14 - Corporate Culture ; Diversity ; Social Responsibility
I0 - General
I00 - General
The social role of companies has become increasingly important in the Arab countries, especially after the abdication of governments for many of the roles of economic and service, coupled with social programs was seen as something normal and expected in the absence of target-profit economic institutions run by governments.
And corporate social responsibility has recently imposed itself strongly in the vicinity of economic relations, whether national or international. On the one hand, provoked acts of anti-globalization, since the mid-Tsainat the last century, especially after the World Trade Organization, the deep resonance with the giant multinationals about the role and new responsibilities in the face of the growing phenomenon of poverty and impoverishment in the world, as a result of strict application of international trade liberalization. On the other hand, re-organizations, international non-governmental business owners evaluate their activities and check the charters of its inception to remind members of their responsibilities as representatives of key private sector and symbols of the economics of the market in the era of globalization.
It had been given a further discussion of this issue of importance and urgency that the obligations of corporate social responsibility does not necessarily mean certain segment of the national and international corporations, because the philosophy of this responsibility derived from the nature of the optional flexible and comprehensive.
This study aims to shed light on the role of corporate social responsibility in the Arab States
2010-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20586/1/MPRA_paper_20586.pdf
Alasrag, Hussien (2010): المسئولية الاجتماعية للشركات. Published in: Development Bridge , Vol. 9, No. 90 (February 2010): pp. 1-20.
ar
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:23080
2021-01-21T20:48:08Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:25326
2019-09-27T02:40:27Z
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7375626A656374733D52:5231:523130
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25326/
The skinny on big box retailing: Wal-Mart, warehouse clubs, and obesity
Courtemanche, Charles
Carden, Art
R10 - General
I00 - General
Research attributes much of the rise in obesity to technological progress reducing the cost of food consumption. We examine this hypothesis in the context of Walmart Supercenters, whose advancements in retail logistics have translated to substantial reductions in food prices. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System matched with Walmart Supercenter entry dates and locations, we examine the effects of Supercenters on body mass index (BMI) and obesity. We account for the endogeneity of Walmart Supercenter locations with an instrumental variables approach that exploits the unique geographical pattern of Supercenter expansion around Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. An additional Supercenter per 100,000 residents increases average BMI by 0.25 units and the obesity rate by 2.4 percentage points. These results imply that the proliferation of Walmart Supercenters explains 11% of the rise in obesity since the late 1980s, but the resulting increase in medical expenditures offsets only a small portion of consumers’ savings from shopping at Supercenters.
2009-12-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25326/1/MPRA_paper_25326.pdf
Courtemanche, Charles and Carden, Art (2009): The skinny on big box retailing: Wal-Mart, warehouse clubs, and obesity.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:25561
2019-09-29T05:08:13Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D49:4933:493330
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3135
7375626A656374733D5A:5A31:5A3130
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D44:4430:443031
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25561/
ICT4D and the human development and capabilities approach: the potentials of information and communication technology
Hamel, Jean-Yves
I30 - General
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
Z10 - General
I00 - General
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
This study frames a review of information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) within the human development and capabilities approach. Looking at the basic dimensions of human development, which make up the core measurement of its achievements: health, education and a income, and additionally at the dimensions of participation and empowerment, a survey of research and evidence seeks to evaluate whether or not ICTs have demonstrated positive outcomes for these dimensions of human development and more broadly to the practice of its approach. The paper reviews the literature and research conducted in these dimensions in order to establish a sense of the scope and potential that ICTs have for human development. By doing so, the paper seeks to assess whether or not the use of ICTs is pertinent to the human development of the poor, and if so, which are documented cases and outcomes that can perhaps be replicated in differing development contexts. The paper also seeks to answer questions on the role of government policy and investment in ICTs as keys to their success in development and whether or not ICTs should be emphasized at all in poor countries. The paper concludes with the important realisation that ICTs alone cannot improve peoples’ lives; the use of ICTs needs to occur within broader strategies that are tailored to make the most use of these tools and techniques in order to reap their potential benefits for human development.
2010-09-27
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25561/1/MPRA_paper_25561.pdf
Hamel, Jean-Yves (2010): ICT4D and the human development and capabilities approach: the potentials of information and communication technology. Published in: Human Development Research Paper Series (HDRP) , Vol. 37, No. 2010 (27 September 2010): pp. 1-77.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:27812
2019-10-01T10:38:36Z
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7375626A656374733D5A:5A31:5A3133
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7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27812/
Living Better in a Better World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Development, Sustainability and Quality of Life
Pilon, André Francisco
Q28 - Government Policy
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
P16 - Political Economy
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
Q38 - Government Policy
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
I00 - General
Q58 - Government Policy
Quality of life, natural and man-made environments, physical, social and mental well-being are currently undermined by all sorts of hazards and injuries; political, economical, social and cultural disarray normalise atrocious behaviours and violence throughout the world, in a context of dehumanisation, depersonalisation and reification. A theoretical and practical multidimensional ecosystemic approach and planning model is posited, intertwining, as donors and recipients, four dimensions of being-in-the-world: intimate, interactive, social and biophysical. Events are not reduced to fragmented representations of reality, but considered as configurations, resulting from a dynamic field, expressing the connections and ruptures between the different dimensions. Instead of being directed to the bubbles of the surface (reduced, taken for granted problems), projects of change contemplate the dynamic configurations formed by the intersection of the different dimensions "inside the boiling pot”.
2011-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27812/1/MPRA_paper_27812.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2011): Living Better in a Better World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Development, Sustainability and Quality of Life.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:28092
2019-10-02T16:27:45Z
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7375626A656374733D44:4436:443632
7375626A656374733D45:4532:453232
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513535
7375626A656374733D5A:5A31:5A3133
7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3332
7375626A656374733D4A:4A32:4A3234
7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3333
7375626A656374733D44:4438:443833
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28092/
Environmental Kuznets Curve: An Envelope of Technological Progress
Dinda, Soumyananda
D62 - Externalities
E22 - Investment ; Capital ; Intangible Capital ; Capacity
Q55 - Technological Innovation
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
D83 - Search ; Learning ; Information and Knowledge ; Communication ; Belief ; Unawareness
I00 - General
This paper develops a growth model to provide a theoretical explanation of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). Paper explains how EKC is shaped with economic development for a given technology. The EKC result arises in two ways – it can be observed from a single technology that matures and it can be observed as an economy develops new technologies. This second effect is represented as an envelope of Kuznets curves for technologies. This paper provides an interesting application of growth theory and of the envelope theorem. In economic development process, technology first diffuses, then become regulated and finally is phased out by another new technology. Thus, each technology may produce one EKC corresponding to a definite externality. Theoretically, a series of EKCs may exist and an envelope of them is observed in reality.
2004-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28092/3/MPRA_paper_28092.pdf
Dinda, Soumyananda (2004): Environmental Kuznets Curve: An Envelope of Technological Progress.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:28745
2019-09-27T09:44:17Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4933:493338
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D43:4333:433331
7375626A656374733D44:4431:443130
7375626A656374733D43:4331:433131
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28745/
Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? A Generalised Bayesian Instrumental Variable Approach in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity
Salois, Matthew
Balcombe, Kelvin
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
I00 - General
C31 - Cross-Sectional Models ; Spatial Models ; Treatment Effect Models ; Quantile Regressions ; Social Interaction Models
D10 - General
C11 - Bayesian Analysis: General
The impact of covariates on obesity in the US is investigated, with particular attention given to the role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The potential endogeneity of participation in SNAP is considered as a potential problem in investigating its causal influence on obesity using instrumental variable (IV) approaches. Due to the presence of heteroscedasticity in the errors, the approach for dealing with heteroscedastic errors in Geweke (1993) is extended to the Bayesian instrumental variable estimator outlined in Rossi et al. (2005). This approach leads to substantively different findings to a standard classical IV approach to correcting for heteroscedasticity. Although findings support the contention that the SNAP participation rate is associated with a greater prevalence of obesity, the evidence for this impact is substantially weakened when using the methods introduced in the paper.
2011-02-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28745/1/MPRA_paper_28745.pdf
Salois, Matthew and Balcombe, Kelvin (2011): Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? A Generalised Bayesian Instrumental Variable Approach in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:28790
2019-10-17T06:55:57Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D51:5132:513238
7375626A656374733D5A:5A31:5A3133
7375626A656374733D4F:4F32:4F3231
7375626A656374733D50:5031:503136
7375626A656374733D4B:4B33:4B3332
7375626A656374733D51:5133:513338
7375626A656374733D48:4837:483735
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513536
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513538
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28790/
Living better in a better world: An ecosystemic approach for development, sustainability and quality of Life
Pilon, André Francisco
Q28 - Government Policy
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
P16 - Political Economy
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
Q38 - Government Policy
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
I00 - General
Q58 - Government Policy
Quality of life, natural and man-made environments, physical, social and mental well-being are currently undermined by all sorts of hazards and injuries; political, economical, social and cultural disarray normalise atrocious behaviours and violence throughout the world, in a context of dehumanisation, depersonalisation and reification. A theoretical and practical multidimensional ecosystemic approach and planning model is posited, intertwining, as donors and recipients, four dimensions of being-in-the-world: intimate, interactive, social and biophysical. Events are not reduced to fragmented representations of reality, but considered as configurations, resulting from a dynamic field, expressing the connections and ruptures between the different dimensions. Instead of being directed to the bubbles of the surface (reduced, taken for granted problems), projects of change contemplate the dynamic configurations formed by the intersection of the different dimensions "inside the boiling pot”.
2011-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28790/2/MPRA_paper_28790.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2011): Living better in a better world: An ecosystemic approach for development, sustainability and quality of Life.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:29347
2019-09-26T16:13:01Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D46:4632:463234
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29347/
Do international remittances promote human development in poor countries? Empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Adenutsi, Deodat E.
I00 - General
F24 - Remittances
This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of inward international remittances on human-centered development in 15 Sub-Saharan African countries. Following the fixed-effects balanced panel data estimation procedure for the period, 1987 to 2007, the empirical results reveal that, indeed, international remittance inflows impact positively on human development in the long run. As per the empirical findings, the paper concludes that, given the irreversible high propensity to travel abroad among the productively active citizens of the sub-region in a bid to earn ‘a decent wage’, the relevant institutions and policymakers within the sub-region should devise appropriate strategies and policy framework to attract higher remittances from abroad. The empirical model and methodology used in this paper are relevant and, hence, can be applied in related fields of study.
2010
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29347/1/MPRA_paper_29347.pdf
Adenutsi, Deodat E. (2010): Do international remittances promote human development in poor countries? Empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Published in: International Journal of Applied Economics and Finance , Vol. 4, No. 1 : pp. 31-45.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:30102
2019-09-27T08:54:13Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D44:4437:443732
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30102/
The Voting Behaviour of the Irish parliamentary party on social issues in the House of Commons 1881-90
Cousins, Mel
I00 - General
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Most studies of the Irish Parliamentary party and its leaders have, understandably, focused on issues directly concerning Ireland. There have been relatively few studies of the role of the Parliamentary party in broader British politics, particularly in relation to social issues. In order to assess this issue over a period of time, this study examines the division lists of the House of Commons in relation to votes on selected ‘social’ issues in the 1880s. An analysis of the Irish Parliamentary party’s voting record in the 1880s throws some light on the party’s broader views on social issues. The study examines the voting behaviour of the Irish Parliamentary party in the context of that of the other major political groupings in the 1880s Parliament. It looks in particular at
i) The extent to which the Irish party members actually voted in comparison with MPs overall;
ii) the internal cohesion of the Irish Parliamentary party votes, i.e. the extent to which those members voting expressed the same views;
iii) their ‘likeness’ with the voting patterns of other major political groupings, i.e. the extent to which the Irish party votes were in line with other groups; and
iv) the extent to which (if any) this changed over time.
2011-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30102/1/MPRA_paper_30102.pdf
Cousins, Mel (2011): The Voting Behaviour of the Irish parliamentary party on social issues in the House of Commons 1881-90.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:30146
2019-10-03T17:26:35Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D51:5132:513238
7375626A656374733D5A:5A31:5A3133
7375626A656374733D4F:4F32:4F3231
7375626A656374733D50:5031:503136
7375626A656374733D4B:4B33:4B3332
7375626A656374733D51:5133:513338
7375626A656374733D48:4837:483735
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513536
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513538
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30146/
Living Better in a Better World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Institutional, Cultural and Educational Development and Change
Pilon, André Francisco
Q28 - Government Policy
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
P16 - Political Economy
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
Q38 - Government Policy
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
I00 - General
Q58 - Government Policy
Quality of life, natural and man-made environments, physical, social and mental well-being are currently undermined by all sorts of hazards and injuries; political, economical, social and cultural disarray normalise atrocious behaviours and violence throughout the world, in a context of dehumanisation, depersonalisation and reification. A theoretical and practical multidimensional ecosystemic approach and planning model is posited, intertwining, as donors and recipients, four dimensions of being-in-the-world: intimate, interactive, social and biophysical. Events are not reduced to fragmented representations of reality, but considered as configurations, resulting from a dynamic field, expressing the connections and ruptures between the different dimensions. Instead of being directed to the bubbles of the surface (reduced, taken for granted problems), projects of change contemplate the dynamic configurations formed by the intersection of the different dimensions "inside the boiling pot”.
2011-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30146/1/MPRA_paper_30146.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2011): Living Better in a Better World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Institutional, Cultural and Educational Development and Change.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:32505
2019-09-26T21:44:52Z
7374617475733D696E7072657373
7375626A656374733D4A:4A31:4A3133
7375626A656374733D44:4436:443633
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32505/
Inequality of opportunity in Indian children: the case of immunization and nutrition
Singh, Ashish
J13 - Fertility ; Family Planning ; Child Care ; Children ; Youth
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
I00 - General
A child’s access to health care and minimum nutrition should not depend on circumstances such as caste, religion, gender, place of birth, or other parental characteristics, which are beyond the control of a child. This paper uses two rounds of Indian National Family Health Surveys and concepts of Inequality of Opportunity and Human Opportunity Indices to measure inequality arising out of unequal access to full immunization and minimum nutrition for Indian children. The results suggest overall high level of inequality of opportunity with substantial geographical variations. Changes in inequality of opportunity in the two services during 1992-93 to 2005-06 were mixed with some geographical regions outperforming others. The findings also call for substantial policy revisions if the goal of universal access to full immunization and minimum nutrition has to be achieved.
2010-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32505/1/MPRA_paper_32505.pdf
Singh, Ashish (2010): Inequality of opportunity in Indian children: the case of immunization and nutrition. Forthcoming in:
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33949
2019-09-27T10:04:24Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3130
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D45:4530:453030
7375626A656374733D47:4732:473230
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33949/
Financial determinants of human development in developing countries
Simplice A., Asongu
O10 - General
I00 - General
E00 - General
G20 - General
Hitherto financial drivers of human development have been unexplored by the UNDP. This paper assesses determinants of human development from financial dynamics of depth, efficiency, size and activity on data from 38 developing countries. While the importance of financial activity, size and depth (in decreasing order) is significant for inequality adjusted human development, financial allocation efficiency significantly undermines welfare. As a policy implication results do not support financial allocation efficiency as a driver of human development.
2011-10-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33949/1/MPRA_paper_33949.pdf
Simplice A., Asongu (2011): Financial determinants of human development in developing countries.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:34203
2019-09-26T20:31:12Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D48:4833:483330
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D45:4532:453230
7375626A656374733D45:4536:453630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34203/
Social security and the rise in health spending: a macroeconomic analysis
Zhao, Kai
H30 - General
I00 - General
E20 - General
E60 - General
In this paper, I develop a quantitative macroeconomic model with endogenous health and endogenous longevity and use it to study the impact of Social Security on aggregate health
spending. I find that Social Security increases the aggregate health spending of the economy via two channels. First, Social Security transfers resources from the young with low marginal propensity to spend on health care to the elderly (age 65+) with high marginal propensity to spend on health care. Second, Social Security raises people's expected future utility and thus increases the marginal benefit from investing in health to live longer. In the calibrated version of the model, I show that the positive impact of Social Security on aggregate health spending
is quantitatively important. The expansion of US Social Security since 1950 can account for approximately 43% of the dramatic rise in US health spending as a share of GDP over the same period (i.e. from 4% of GDP in 1950 to 13% of GDP in 2000). I also find that this positive impact of Social Security has two interesting policy implications. First, the negative effect of Social Security on capital accumulation in this model is significantly smaller than what previous studies have found, because Social Security induces extra years of life via health spending and
thus encourages private savings for retirement. Second, Social Security has a significant spill-over effect on public health insurance programs (e.g. Medicare). As Social Security increases health spending and longevity, it also increases the insurance payments from these programs,
thus raising their financial burden.
2011-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34203/1/MPRA_paper_34203.pdf
Zhao, Kai (2011): Social security and the rise in health spending: a macroeconomic analysis.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:34376
2019-10-04T17:17:41Z
7374617475733D696E7072657373
7375626A656374733D4A:4A31:4A3133
7375626A656374733D44:4436:443633
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34376/
Inequality of opportunity in Indian children: the case of immunization and nutrition
Singh, Ashish
J13 - Fertility ; Family Planning ; Child Care ; Children ; Youth
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
I00 - General
A child’s access to health care and minimum nutrition should not depend on circumstances such as caste, religion, gender, place of birth, or other parental characteristics, which are beyond the control of a child. This paper uses two rounds of Indian National Family Health Surveys and concepts of Inequality of Opportunity and Human Opportunity Indices to measure inequality arising out of unequal access to full immunization and minimum nutrition for Indian children. The results suggest overall high level of inequality of opportunity with substantial geographical variations. Changes in inequality of opportunity in the two services during 1992-93 to 2005-06 were mixed with some geographical regions outperforming others. The findings also call for substantial policy revisions if the goal of universal access to full immunization and minimum nutrition has to be achieved.
2010-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34376/1/MPRA_paper_34376.pdf
Singh, Ashish (2010): Inequality of opportunity in Indian children: the case of immunization and nutrition. Forthcoming in:
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:36058
2019-09-29T00:33:34Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D44:4433
7375626A656374733D49:4933
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36058/
Asignación Universal por Hijo para Protección Social: una política de inclusión para los más vulnerables
Calabria, Alejandro A.
Calero, Analía Verónica
D´Elia, Vanesa
Gaiada, Julio
Rottenschweiler, Sergio
D3 - Distribution
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
I00 - General
Conditioned transfers programs are used by several countries in the region as a mechanism to fight poverty and inequality. These policies are basically aimed at focusing monetary transferences on families with underage children, and to condition the same so as to promote health care and human capital formation of children.
By means of decree 1602/09, the Argentinean government sought to extend the benefits of the universal allocation per child for workers in the formal sector of the economy, to those children whose parents are either informal or unemployed workers.
Considering the number of minors benefited by this policy and its positive effects on the short and long-term brought about by health and education conditions, the universal allocation per child is, undoubtedly, one of the most important social welfare programs implemented in the recent years with a clear objective of equal distribution.
This work intends to analyze the universal allocation per child in terms of social protection. The first sections describe the contributory system of family allocations per child along with the new non-contributory universal allocation. Sections 3 & 4 address an estimate of this benefit’s contribution on aggregate demand and poverty levels. Section 5 presents a brief analysis on the re-distributory impact of regional allocation, while section 6 provides general conclusions. This work ends with an appendix presenting a compared analysis of the universal allocation per child with other similar programs in Latin America.
2010-05-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36058/1/MPRA_paper_36058.pdf
Calabria, Alejandro A. and Calero, Analía Verónica and D´Elia, Vanesa and Gaiada, Julio and Rottenschweiler, Sergio (2010): Asignación Universal por Hijo para Protección Social: una política de inclusión para los más vulnerables.
es
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:36486
2019-09-29T08:51:38Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D49:4931:493138
7375626A656374733D49:4933:493338
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36486/
Effects of welfare reform and the state children’s health insurance program on medicaid and total health expenditures
Datta, Anusua
Vandegrift, Donald
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
I00 - General
Medicaid expenditures account for a sizeable proportion of U.S. GDP - $360.3 billion in 2009 or 2.55 percent of GDP. Despite this, the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (i.e. the new Obama healthcare initiative) further expands eligibility criteria for the Medicaid program. However, there is little literature on the effect on healthcare spending from earlier expansions of Medicaid such as the introduction of the SCHIP program. Moreover, the effect of welfare reform (i.e. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996) on Medicaid spending has received little attention. Using panel data from all 50 U.S. states for the period 1990-2004, we find that adding one person to the SCHIP rolls in a state that has established an SCHIP program in Medicaid raises real Medicaid spending about $4,100. However, we find evidence that additional SCHIP enrollments also affect non-Medicaid health spending. Thus, the total costs of insuring these patients are significantly higher (about $7,700). For states that have established Medicaid-combined programs, adding one person to the SCHIP rolls raises real healthcare spending about $1,800 after two years. Finally, we find that welfare reform reduced annual Medicaid expenditures by about $1.2 billion and total healthcare spending by about $2.5 billion.
2011-12-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36486/1/MPRA_paper_36486.pdf
Datta, Anusua and Vandegrift, Donald (2011): Effects of welfare reform and the state children’s health insurance program on medicaid and total health expenditures.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:36928
2019-09-28T04:39:45Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D48:4835:483533
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D48:4830:483030
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36928/
The Multipillar System for Health Care Financing: Thirteen Good Reasons for Open Capitalisation Funds, Covering both Pension and Health Care Provisions
Pammolli, Fabio
Salerno, Nicola
H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
I00 - General
H00 - General
CeRM recommendation for creating a new tool, the Open Welfare Funds: open funds based on real capitalisation of contributions, dedicated to both pension and health care provisions, and linked to collective insurance coverage against major health risks (first of all lack of self-sufficiency)
Within welfare systems, health care is the expenditure that poses the most urgent problems for long term sustainability. Without policy interventions and structural reforms, its physiological tendency towards increases over Gdp will inevitably require access restrictions and cutting off of demand for services.
This paper highlights the need to renew the current health care financing scheme. In the presence of ageing populations and rising incidences of health care expenditures over Gdp, this scheme cannot remain fully in charge of the working income of active people (pay-as-you-go), if we want to avoid depressive effects on employment, investments and productivity. Such effects, besides hampering economic growth, would have a negative impact on health care itself, with resources becoming more and more scarce with respect to needs.
The financing scheme must become multipillar, with pay-as-you-go complemented by a private channel based on the real capitalisation of contributions. This channel would be capable of allocating savings, supporting productive investments and generating resources to be dedicated to health care.
The best structuring and concrete functioning of the private pillar is less clear and under discussion. This position paper puts forward an operational proposal: the open capitalisation fund for welfare should offer both pension and health care provisions through real accumulation of contributions on individual accounts, and should be linked to collective insurance coverage against major risks and lack of self-sufficiency.
This tool presents numerous positive characteristics, compared to the public pay-as-you-go monopillar as well as to a multipillar system in which the private component consists exclusively or mainly of insurance contracts.
In fact, it is necessary to restrict the recourse to pure insurance coverage only to a limited group of treatments, because this kind of coverage is not equipped to deal with the dynamics of future expenses.
As the difficulties American insurance companies are experiencing demonstrate, the pure insurance coverage ends up with the recurrence, in the private area, of the same defects as the pay-as-you-go in the public health care systems. Insurance pooling is not but a pay-as-you-go scheme applied over the group of insured members.
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36928/1/MPRA_paper_36928.pdf
Pammolli, Fabio and Salerno, Nicola (2011): The Multipillar System for Health Care Financing: Thirteen Good Reasons for Open Capitalisation Funds, Covering both Pension and Health Care Provisions. Published in: CeRM Working Papers (www.cermlab.it) (2011)
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:37712
2019-09-26T10:13:01Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513533
7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D4A:4A32:4A3230
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37712/
Air pollution:a case study of a cashew nut factory
Rjumohan, A.
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
I00 - General
J20 - General
Probably the first experience of the human beings from the impact of air pollution might have taken place when they built fires in poorly ventilated caves. Since then our planet Earth has suffered much from man-made pollution. Cashew nut processing involves the hazards of both air pollution and indoor pollution; the former burns away our planet Earth and the latter affects the health of the factory workers engaged in different processes. The present study deals with only the latter: the occupational health hazards involved in cashew nut processing. This aspect is examined here by means of a case study of one cashew nut processing factory in Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu State in India. Cashew nut industry is important at the national level as a foreign exchange earner and is equally important at the local level as an avenue for extensive employment, especially for women. But how can that condone for the deadly sin of polluting our planet?
2009-08-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37712/1/MPRA_paper_37712.pdf
Rjumohan, A. (2009): Air pollution:a case study of a cashew nut factory.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:38788
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Evaluar para aprender. Eficiencia en salud y desarrollo.
LARRÚ, JOSÉ MARÍA
F35 - Foreign Aid
I00 - General
C93 - Field Experiments
The paper shows the evolution of ODA for the health sector for 2002-2010. It also shows a review of some findings form impact evaluation in the health sector. The main message is the difference between inputs (ODA flows) and outcomes (effects detected in the evaluations). The policy recommendation is that ODA volumes are only accountability exercises but evaluations can lead to more evidence based decisions.
2012-05-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/38788/1/MPRA_paper_38788.pdf
LARRÚ, JOSÉ MARÍA (2012): Evaluar para aprender. Eficiencia en salud y desarrollo.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:39887
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Determinantes de la fecundidad en el Ecuador
Llerena, Freddy
J13 - Fertility ; Family Planning ; Child Care ; Children ; Youth
J14 - Economics of the Elderly ; Economics of the Handicapped ; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
I00 - General
C25 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; Discrete Regressors ; Proportions ; Probabilities
This paper examines the determinants of Total Fertility Rate in Ecuador on the basis of ENDEMAIN 2004. We find empirical evidence suggests that women who have information about childbirth and pregnancy, contraceptive use, have higher levels of education and work, are more likely to have fewer children. It is evident from the analysis that in Ecuador, the total fertility rate also depends positively on infant mortality.
2012-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/39887/1/MPRA_paper_39887.pdf
Llerena, Freddy (2012): Determinantes de la fecundidad en el Ecuador.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:40214
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Counting happiness from the individual level to the group level
Beja Jr, Edsel
Yap, David B.
I30 - General
C40 - General
I00 - General
D60 - General
C80 - General
The development of a reliable procedure for the aggregation of individual level happiness leads to a proper understanding of group level happiness. Such a procedure is indispensable for a more responsive public policy-making. However, individual self-reports on happiness must meet the dual requirements of cardinality and relative interpersonal comparability in order that aggregation is not problematic and the resulting measure not only makes sense but also useful for group level interventions. The paper demonstrates the procedure for obtaining group level happiness using data from the Philippines.
2012-07-22
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/40214/1/MPRA_paper_40214.pdf
Beja Jr, Edsel and Yap, David B. (2012): Counting happiness from the individual level to the group level.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:40935
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The effectiveness of government expenditure on education and health care in the Caribbean
Craigwell, Roland
Lowe, Shane
Bynoe, Danielle
I21 - Analysis of Education
I00 - General
Investment in human development is considered a means of improving the quality of life and sustaining economic growth in the Caribbean. The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficacy of public spending on health care and education by evaluating the life expectancy and school enrolment rates of these countries.
2012
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/40935/1/MPRA_paper_40935.pdf
Craigwell, Roland and Lowe, Shane and Bynoe, Danielle (2012): The effectiveness of government expenditure on education and health care in the Caribbean. Published in:
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:41812
2019-09-27T08:31:57Z
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Social development – a multidimensional approach to social development analysis. Country level evidence for year 2011.
Ewa, Lechman
D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
I00 - General
D60 - General
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level differences – gaps (divides) among countries. For the analysis purposes, we apply: descriptive statistics analysis, Kernel epanechnikov density (to check for world distribution of social welfare), inequality measure – Gini coefficient and square Euclidean distance (full linkages) method.
The analysis sample encompasses 144 countries, and we mainly collect statistical data for the year 2011 (if available). The data applied in the study are derived from databases like: United Nations Millennium Development Goals Database; United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; World Health Organization; International Human Development Indicators.
2012-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41812/1/MPRA_paper_41812.pdf
Ewa, Lechman (2012): Social development – a multidimensional approach to social development analysis. Country level evidence for year 2011.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:41831
2019-09-27T16:35:44Z
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Deconstructing Bataknese Gorga
Situngkir, Hokky
C00 - General
L83 - Sports ; Gambling ; Restaurants ; Recreation ; Tourism
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
I00 - General
Q20 - General
D80 - General
Z11 - Economics of the Arts and Literature
L86 - Information and Internet Services ; Computer Software
The carved and painted decorations in traditional Batak houses and buildings, gorga, are the source of their exoticism. There are no identical patterns of the ornaments within Batak houses and the drawings are closely related to the way ancient Batak capture the dynamicity of the growing “tree of life”, one of central things within their cosmology and mythology. The survey of ornaments of Batak houses and buildings in Northern Sumatera Indonesia has made us possible to observe the complex pattern. The fractal dimensions of the geometrical shapes in gorga are calculated and they are conjectured into 1.5-1.6, between the dimensional of a line and a plane. The way gorga is drawn is captured by using some modification to the turtle geometry of L-System model, a popular model to model the dynamics of growing plants. The result is a proposal to see Bataknese gorga as one of traditional heritage that may enrich the studies to the generative art.
2012-10-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41831/1/MPRA_paper_41831.pdf
Situngkir, Hokky (2012): Deconstructing Bataknese Gorga. Published in: BFI Working Paper Series No. WP-7-2012 (2 October 2012)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:41847
2019-09-26T08:26:03Z
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The impact of husband's job loss on partners' mental health
Mendolia, Silvia
I00 - General
J12 - Marriage ; Marital Dissolution ; Family Structure ; Domestic Abuse
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of job loss on
family mental well-being. The negative income shock can affect the mental health
status of the individual who directly experiences such displacement, as well as the
psychological well-being of his partner; also, job loss may have a significantly
detrimental effect on life satisfaction, self-esteem and on the individual’s perceived
role in society. This analysis is based on a sample of married and cohabitating
couples from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey. In order to
correct for the possible endogeneity of job loss, data from employment histories is
utilised and redundancies (different from dismissals) in declining industries are used
as an indicator of exogenous job loss. Results show evidence that couples in which
the husband experiences a job loss are more likely to experience poor mental health.
2011-05-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/41847/2/MPRA_paper_41847.pdf
Mendolia, Silvia (2011): The impact of husband's job loss on partners' mental health. Forthcoming in: Review of Economics of the Household
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:42008
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Cost-containment policies in public pharmaceutical spending in the EU
Carone, Giuseppe
Schwierz, Christoph
Xavier, Ana
H51 - Government Expenditures and Health
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
I00 - General
I1 - Health
I10 - General
This paper presents and evaluates pharmaceutical policies in the EU aimed at the rational use of medicines and at keeping pharmaceutical spending under control. Policy makers are growing more aware that by regulating pharmaceutical markets correctly, considerable savings can be achieved without compromising the quality of care. Specifically, the paper makes the case that, by following numerous best-practices in pharmaceutical sector regulations, the value for money of pharmaceutical consumption could be substantially increased. Appropriate regulations can be relevant for pricing, reimbursement, market entry and expenditure control, as well as specific policies targeted at the distribution chain, physicians and patients.
2012-09-14
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/42008/1/MPRA_paper_42008.pdf
Carone, Giuseppe and Schwierz, Christoph and Xavier, Ana (2012): Cost-containment policies in public pharmaceutical spending in the EU. Published in: European Economy- Economic Papers , Vol. ISSN 1, No. 461 (14 September 2012): pp. 1-64.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:42166
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Impact of College Library on Student’s Academic Achievements
Basheer, S
Razzaq, A
I00 - General
economics has created a need for competent commerce graduates. Provision of talented and intelligent professionals in these fields is the responsibility of Governmental Institutions, (colleges & Universities). In the process of developing highly qualified , confident , and academically up rated professionals, roll played by commerce colleges and other educational institutions can never be denied. To increase economic strengths of the country and to reduce its weaknesses, it is also necessary to have a better understanding of available environmental opportunities and alarming external threats, and to build competent young professionals to face all such challenges.
One of the urgent needs of Government Premier Girls College is how to improve the learning of commerce students especially at degree level. It was observed in the year 2009 and 2010 that students’ performance in examinations has been consistently low, and students’ academic achievement in degree classes is generally poor. Therefore, the problem of low performance of students in the commerce subjects should be given priority attention.
2012
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/42166/1/MPRA_paper_42166.pdf
Basheer, S and Razzaq, A (2012): Impact of College Library on Student’s Academic Achievements. Published in: International Journal of Economics Business and Management Studies , Vol. 1, No. 1 (2012): pp. 15-22.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:42949
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Permanent Effects of Economic Crises on Household Welfare: Evidence and Projections from Argentina’s Downturns
Cruces, Guillermo
Gluzmann, Pablo
Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe
I00 - General
G01 - Financial Crises
The quantification of the impact of crises on household welfare and socioeconomic outcomes is a fundamental input for the design of ex ante safety nets and ex post alleviation programs. Economic downturns have direct effects through employment and household income, but whether these and other impacts are permanent rather than transitory is harder to establish. This study of Argentina estimates the relationship between GDP growth and severe crises on poverty, youth unemployment, and a series of human capital related outcomes, such as infant and maternal health, and school enrollment and progression. The identification strategy relies on provincial variation in GDP, and on a difference in differences estimation from the severe 1999-2002 crisis. The objective is twofold. On the one hand, the study documents the effects of past episodes. On the other hand, it extrapolates past results to provide bounds for the impact of the 2007-2009 financial crisis in Argentina. Besides the expected and well-documented relationship between crises and poverty levels, the main finding of this study is a strong effect on infant mortality and low weight at birth. Moreover, there is an asymmetry in these effects: the negative impact of downturns is greater than the positive evolution during recoveries. The results for education variables are more ambiguous, and even counter-cyclical in some cases. The document discusses the implications of these estimates for the current episode. Overall, these results provide evidence of permanent effects of economic crises through lower levels of human capital, worsening health outcomes and increased mortality.
2010-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/42949/1/MPRA_paper_42949.pdf
Cruces, Guillermo and Gluzmann, Pablo and Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe (2010): Permanent Effects of Economic Crises on Household Welfare: Evidence and Projections from Argentina’s Downturns. Published in: ANALES | ASOCIACION ARGENTINA DE ECONOMIA POLITICA , Vol. Noviem, (November 2010): pp. 1-23.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:44522
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Equity in social policy, a human rights and results based approach A welfare state comparison: the case of disability
van geystelen, judit
poi rot, etienne pascal
I00 - General
The reinforcement of equity and the inclusion of vulnerable population groups in social welfare systems development remains prominent in both, local and global policy arena. This paper assesses the hypothesis that certain welfare regimes produce more equitable social welfare outcomes than others. A human rights and results based perspective is adopted to explore whether there may be a relation between social welfare outcomes in the general population and in less advantaged population groups across welfare systems with different classification. Welfare sample states are consistent with a tripartite classification of welfare regimes, namely: a) social: Denmark, Norway, Sweden; b) corporatist: France, Germany; and c) liberal: United Kingdom, United States of America. For the purpose of this paper “people living with disability” represent vulnerable population groups. A choice founded on the universal characteristics of disability, including its complexity that requires a holistic approach with strong cross sector collaboration. Results from both, the general and vulnerable population were tabulated to calculate a human rights and results based equity index (HREI). The integration of an additional cost factor allowed to explore cost-effectiveness. Findings confirm the hypothesis that certain welfare regimes do produce more equitable social welfare outcomes than others with the social regime to produce best and most equitable results as well as best appreciation of cost-effectiveness. The latter could indicate that welfare systems founded on limited de-commodification, high public investment, priorisation of employment and valuing of collectivity and solidarity are most efficient. Yet, more in-depth research would be required to validate these findings and to better understand causality.
2012-09-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/44522/1/MPRA_paper_44522.pdf
van geystelen, judit and poi rot, etienne pascal (2012): Equity in social policy, a human rights and results based approach A welfare state comparison: the case of disability. Forthcoming in: conference paper ASMDA 2013
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:45360
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Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design
Pilon, André Francisco
I00 - General
Q28 - Government Policy
Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q58 - Government Policy
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Problems of difficult settlement or solution in the world cannot be solved by segmented academic formats, market-place interests or mass-media headlines; instead of dealing with taken for granted issues (the apparent “bubbles” in the surface), public policies, research and teaching programmes should detect the issues and deal with them deep inside the boiling pot. Policy discussions and policy making require new paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded into the cultural, social, political and economical institutions (more critical than individual motives and morals). Urban planning cannot be subordinated to the interests of business corporations, cities cannot remain as privileged centers for profit and capital accumulation, transforming citizens in mere users and consumers, but must preserve and develop mankind heritage, encompassing history, values, architecture, landscapes, the arts, the letters. Being-in-the-world is more than living on it, it demands an ecosystemic approach, the construction of a new social fabric, as new structures emerge in the socio-cultural learning niches and develop critical capacities to operate changes in the system. Problem solving implies dynamic and complex configurations intertwining four dimensions of being-in-the-world, as they combine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events (deficits and assets), cope with consequences (desired or undesired) and contribute for change (diagnosis and prognosis): intimate (subject’s cognitive and affective processes), interactive (groups’ mutual support and values), social (political, economical and cultural systems) and biophysical (biological endowment, natural and man-made environments). An integrated ecosystemic approach to education, culture, environment, health, politics, economics and quality of life should develop the connections and seal the ruptures between the different dimensions of being-in-the-world, in view of their mutual support and dynamic equilibrium.
2013-03-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/45360/1/MPRA_paper_45360.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2013): Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:46977
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Low birthweight, preschool education, and school remediation
Temple, Judy
Arteaga, Irma
Reynolds, Arthur
H0 - General
I00 - General
Abstract
Studies have documented a strong relationship between low birth weight status and adverse child
outcomes such as poor school performance and need for special education services. Following a cohort of
over 1,300 low-income and predominately African American children in the Chicago Longitudinal Study
we investigated whether birth weight and family socio-economic risk measured at the time of the child’s
birth predicts placement into special education classes or grade retention in elementary school. Contrary
to previous research, we found that low birth weight (< 5 ½ pounds) does not predict special education
placement. Rather, these children (especially boys) were more likely to be retained in grade as an
alternative approach to addressing poor school performance. Family socio-economic risk at birth was a
significant predictor of the need for remedial services. We also assessed whether a high-quality preschool
program offered at ages 3 and 4 can reduce the negative effects of low family SES and birth weight on the
need for special education and grade retention. Preschool participation in the Child-Parent Centers was
found to reduce the likelihood of school remediation. The effects of preschool were greater for children
from families with higher levels of socio-economic disadvantage. The beneficial effects of preschool on
special education placement were also larger for boys than girls.
2010
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46977/1/MPRA_paper_46977.pdf
Temple, Judy and Arteaga, Irma and Reynolds, Arthur (2010): Low birthweight, preschool education, and school remediation. Published in: Education and Urban Society , Vol. 42, (2010): pp. 705-729.
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Fulfillment of Maqasid al-Shariah via Takaful
Abdul Aziz, Ahmad Faizal
Mohamad, Shaifulfazlee
G22 - Insurance ; Insurance Companies ; Actuarial Studies
I00 - General
Protection is as important as other basic needs as it ensures the continuity of the fulfillment of the needs. The fulfillment from Islamic point of view can be categorised into five major areas as prescribed under the Maqasid al-Shariah. Protection can be achieved via Insurance, but it is not acceptable by Islam because of the element of riba, gharar, and maysir in it. Therefore, Takaful or Islamic Insurance is taken as alternative to achieve the same objective but with a different contract and via Shariah-compliant investment mechanism. This paper tries to connect Takaful and its features as a tool to fulfill the Maqasid al-Shariah.
2013-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47776/1/MPRA_paper_47776.pdf
Abdul Aziz, Ahmad Faizal and Mohamad, Shaifulfazlee (2013): Fulfillment of Maqasid al-Shariah via Takaful.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:47800
2019-10-17T16:50:36Z
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POLITICI DIN SFERA PROTECTIEI SOCIALE SI SUSTENABILITATEA LOR IN CONTEXTUL CONSTRANGERILOR BUGETARE
Argesanu, Nicolae Razvan
G38 - Government Policy and Regulation
I00 - General
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
J68 - Public Policy
This article aims to ofer a new framework for social protection approach starting from identifying common ground, or at least a certain degree of convergence of different approaches from the literature on the area of manifestation, objectives and social protection configuration and highlighting subsequently impact on the economy policies in this area, and society in general. We see that more attention should be paid to aspects of integrative / correlative coherence of social protection policies that would allow better efficiency and rationalization of social costs in general and, in particular, those that have direct impact on public finances.
2013-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/47800/1/MPRA_paper_47800.pdf
Argesanu, Nicolae Razvan (2013): POLITICI DIN SFERA PROTECTIEI SOCIALE SI SUSTENABILITATEA LOR IN CONTEXTUL CONSTRANGERILOR BUGETARE.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48751
2019-10-21T08:34:02Z
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¿Está Latinoamérica alejándose de las cuentas individuales de pensiones?
Bertranou, Fabio
Calvo, Esteban
Bertranou, Evelina
I00 - General
En 1981, Chile inició una ronda de reformas a los sistemas de pensiones que introdujo cuentas individuales de pensión de tipo obligatorio, alejándose así de los sistemas públicos. A principios de los 1990s, otros diez países Latinoamericanos siguieron el ejemplo de Chile. En años recientes, incluso antes del comienzo de la crisis financiera, una segunda ronda de reformas de pensiones fue iniciada para fortalecer el componente público del sistema y enfrentar los problemas creados por las cuentas individuales. El caso más extremo de contracción es Argentina, donde las cotizaciones obligatorias a las cuentas individuales fueron eliminadas a finales de 2008, volviendo así a un plan tradicional de beneficios definidos bajo un esquema de reparto. Este nota de investigación analiza las dos rondas de reformas de pensiones en Latinoamérica para determinar si la región esta alejándose de las pensiones basadas en cuentas individuales. Aunque Latinoamérica es bastante heterogénea, sus mercados laborales y sus sistemas de seguridad social comparten características como una economía informal extensa y la desarticulación de una variedad de instituciones que proveen protección de los ingresos durante la vejez. A esto se le suma la crisis financiera y la recesión económica que está generando nuevos desafíos para los sistemas basados en cuentas individuales.
In 1981, Chile initiated old-age pension reforms that introduced mandatory funded individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and moved away from public systems. Beginning in the 1990s, ten other Latin American countries followed in Chile’s wake. In recent years, even before the onset of the financial crisis, a second round of pension reforms was initiated to strengthen the public component and address the problems created by individual accounts. The most extreme case of retrenching is Argentina, where IRAs were eliminated for mandatory contributions in late 2008. This country has gone back to a traditional defined-benefit pay-as-you-go scheme. This brief reviews the two rounds of pension reforms to determine whether Latin American countries are moving away from individual pensions.1 Even though this region is quite heterogeneous, its labor markets and social security systems share some common features, such as a large informal economy and a variety of uncoordinated institutions providing old-age income protection. The 2008-2009 financial crisis and economic recession is posing new challenges to systems that have introduced IRAs.
2010-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48751/1/MPRA_paper_48751.pdf
Bertranou, Fabio and Calvo, Esteban and Bertranou, Evelina (2010): ¿Está Latinoamérica alejándose de las cuentas individuales de pensiones? Published in: Issue Brief No. #9-14 (May 2010)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:48968
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48968/
Antecedentes y desarrollos recientes del sistema de salud chileno
Calvo, Esteban
I00 - General
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
En el presente capítulo se revisan algunos antecedentes y desarrollos recientes del sistema de salud chileno. En primer término, se lleva a cabo un repaso de los principales períodos e hitos históricos de las políticas de salud en Chile. Posteriormente, se revisa el contexto epidemiológico y demográfico en Chile y se compara con el caso de Colombia, en relación a indicadores relevantes como la esperanza de vida, el envejecimiento de la población y los gastos en salud. En tercer lugar, se profundizará en la realidad actual de las políticas de salud chilenas. Por último, se analizará cómo es posible priorizar el sistema de salud de una forma justa, legítima y sustentable.
In this chapter we examine the history and recent developments in the Chilean health system. First, we outline the main historical periods and milestones of health policies in Chile. Next, we review the current epidemiological and demographic context in Chile and compare it with the case of Colombia. Then we analyze the current health policy debates and reform that are taking place in Chile. Finally, we discuss how to prioritize the health system in a fair, legitimate and sustainable way.
2013
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48968/1/MPRA_paper_48968.pdf
Calvo, Esteban (2013): Antecedentes y desarrollos recientes del sistema de salud chileno. Published in: V Cátedra Internacional. Análisis y evaluación de políticas públicas. : pp. 34-56.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:49099
2019-10-07T16:23:50Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49099/
Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design
Pilon, André Francisco
I00 - General
Q28 - Government Policy
Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q58 - Government Policy
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Problems of difficult settlement or solution in the world cannot be solved by segmented academic formats, market-place interests or mass-media headlines; instead of dealing with taken for granted issues (the apparent “bubbles” in the surface), public policies, research and teaching programmes should detect the issues and deal with them deep inside the boiling pot. Policy discussions and policy making require new paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded into the cultural, social, political and economical institutions (more critical than individual motives and morals). Urban planning cannot be subordinated to the interests of business corporations, cities cannot remain as privileged centers for profit and capital accumulation, transforming citizens in mere users and consumers, but must preserve and develop mankind heritage, encompassing history, values, architecture, landscapes, the arts, the letters. Being-in-the-world is more than living on it, it demands an ecosystemic approach, the construction of a new social fabric, as new structures emerge in the socio-cultural learning niches and develop critical capacities to operate changes in the system. Problem solving implies dynamic and complex configurations intertwining four dimensions of being-in-the-world, as they combine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events (deficits and assets), cope with consequences (desired or undesired) and contribute for change (diagnosis and prognosis): intimate (subject’s cognitive and affective processes), interactive (groups’ mutual support and values), social (political, economical and cultural systems) and biophysical (biological endowment, natural and man-made environments). An integrated ecosystemic approach to education, culture, environment, health, politics, economics and quality of life should develop the connections and seal the ruptures between the different dimensions of being-in-the-world, in view of their mutual support and dynamic equilibrium.
2013-03-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49099/1/MPRA_paper_45360.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2013): Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:49101
2019-10-21T00:58:10Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49101/
Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design
Pilon, André Francisco
I00 - General
Q28 - Government Policy
Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q58 - Government Policy
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Problems of difficult settlement or solution in the world cannot be solved by segmented academic formats, market-place interests or mass-media headlines; instead of dealing with taken for granted issues (the apparent “bubbles” in the surface), public policies, research and teaching programmes should detect the issues and deal with them deep inside the boiling pot. Policy discussions and policy making require new paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded into the cultural, social, political and economical institutions (more critical than individual motives and morals). Urban planning cannot be subordinated to the interests of business corporations, cities cannot remain as privileged centers for profit and capital accumulation, transforming citizens in mere users and consumers, but must preserve and develop mankind heritage, encompassing history, values, architecture, landscapes, the arts, the letters. Being-in-the-world is more than living on it, it demands an ecosystemic approach, the construction of a new social fabric, as new structures emerge in the socio-cultural learning niches and develop critical capacities to operate changes in the system. Problem solving implies dynamic and complex configurations intertwining four dimensions of being-in-the-world, as they combine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events (deficits and assets), cope with consequences (desired or undesired) and contribute for change (diagnosis and prognosis): intimate (subject’s cognitive and affective processes), interactive (groups’ mutual support and values), social (political, economical and cultural systems) and biophysical (biological endowment, natural and man-made environments). An integrated ecosystemic approach to education, culture, environment, health, politics, economics and quality of life should develop the connections and seal the ruptures between the different dimensions of being-in-the-world, in view of their mutual support and dynamic equilibrium.
2013-03-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49101/9/MPRA_paper_49101.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2013): Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:49241
2019-10-01T06:43:08Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49241/
PERANAN SISTEM PENDIDIKAN NASIONAL DALAM MENGEMBANGKAN NILAI-NILAI BUDAYA
Nababan, Tongam Sihol
I00 - General
National Education System is always influenced by some social dynamics. One of them is cultural values which need to be developed. The development of cultural values aims to support the national identity and national cultures. Therefore, national education is hoped to develop the national cultures by civilizing them to the students and schooling should play the role to civilize the culture values. The existence of value crisis is caused by the poor education as a process of civilizing.
2009-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49241/1/MPRA_paper_49241.pdf
Nababan, Tongam Sihol (2009): PERANAN SISTEM PENDIDIKAN NASIONAL DALAM MENGEMBANGKAN NILAI-NILAI BUDAYA. Published in: The First International Symposium on Education, University of North SumatraSU (15 August 2009)
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2019-10-21T08:53:52Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50402/
Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a medio-lungo termine della Spesa Sanitaria
Salerno, Nicola Carmine
H00 - General
H4 - Publicly Provided Goods
H40 - General
H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
H51 - Government Expenditures and Health
H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
I0 - General
I00 - General
I1 - Health
I10 - General
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
J1 - Demographic Economics
J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
J14 - Economics of the Elderly ; Economics of the Handicapped ; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
The same methodology Oecd and Ecofin apply to project future trends of health care expenditue is here applied to reconstruct backwards Italian health care expenditure. The time horizon is 1988-2012. Results are described and argued. Important evidence emerges on the historical value of the elasticity of per-capita expenditure to per-capita Gdp. This value, of course, brings also some information on what this elasticity can prove in the future. It is the first test developed on past trends using profiles of per-capita expenditure per age brackets, and applied to Italy.
2013-10-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50402/1/MPRA_paper_50402.pdf
Salerno, Nicola Carmine (2013): Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a medio-lungo termine della Spesa Sanitaria.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:50539
2019-09-30T05:06:41Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50539/
Expression of TRPV1 channels after nerve injury provides an essential delivery tool for neuropathic pain attenuation.
Zakir, HM
Mostafeezur, RM
Suzuki, A
Hitomi, S
Maeda, T
Seo, K
Yamada, Y
Yamamura, K
Lev, S
Binshtok, AM
Iwata, K
Kitagawa, J
I00 - General
Increased expression of the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) channels, following nerve injury, may facilitate the entry of QX-314 into nociceptive neurons in order to achieve effective and selective pain relief. In this study we hypothesized that the level of QX-314/capsaicin (QX-CAP) - induced blockade of nocifensive behavior could be used as an indirect in-vivo measurement of functional expression of TRPV1 channels. We used the QX-CAP combination to monitor the functional expression of TRPV1 in regenerated neurons after inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) transection in rats. We evaluated the effect of this combination on pain threshold at different time points after IAN transection by analyzing the escape thresholds to mechanical stimulation of lateral mental skin. At 2 weeks after IAN transection, there was no QX-CAP mediated block of mechanical hyperalgesia, implying that there was no functional expression of TRPV1 channels. These results were confirmed immunohistochemically by staining of regenerated trigeminal ganglion (TG) neurons. This suggests that TRPV1 channel expression is an essential necessity for the QX-CAP mediated blockade. Furthermore, we show that 3 and 4 weeks after IAN transection, application of QX-CAP produced a gradual increase in escape threshold, which paralleled the increased levels of TRPV1 channels that were detected in regenerated TG neurons. Immunohistochemical analysis also revealed that non-myelinated neurons regenerated slowly compared to myelinated neurons following IAN transection. We also show that TRPV1 expression shifted towards myelinated neurons. Our findings suggest that nerve injury modulates the TRPV1 expression pattern in regenerated neurons and that the effectiveness of QX-CAP induced blockade depends on the availability of functional TRPV1 receptors in regenerated neurons. The results of this study also suggest that the QX-CAP based approach can be used as a new behavioral tool to detect dynamic changes in TRPV1 expression, in various pathological conditions.
2012-04-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50539/1/MPRA_paper_50539.pdf
Zakir, HM and Mostafeezur, RM and Suzuki, A and Hitomi, S and Maeda, T and Seo, K and Yamada, Y and Yamamura, K and Lev, S and Binshtok, AM and Iwata, K and Kitagawa, J (2012): Expression of TRPV1 channels after nerve injury provides an essential delivery tool for neuropathic pain attenuation. Published in: Plos One , Vol. 7, No. 9 (4 September 2012)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:50884
2019-10-17T10:54:19Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50884/
Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a Medio-Lungo Termine della Spesa Farmaceutica
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine
D60 - General
H00 - General
H20 - General
H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods
H70 - General
H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
I00 - General
I10 - General
I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets
I13 - Health Insurance, Public and Private
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
I30 - General
J1 - Demographic Economics
J10 - General
J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past.
It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one.
The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy and also by problems and inefficiencies on the market for pharmaceuticals production and retail distribution, while the reconstructed expenditure can be considered net of these influences.
If we believe that Ecofin-Oecd methodology is valid, this exercise offers us the possibility to evaluate the difference between the effective expenditure and a reconstructed expenditure that may jet light on the pharmaceutical needs, i.e. the theoretical expenditure that would entirely satisfy population needs in the absence of truncations.
Several conclusions can be traced for the policy, and several insights can also be argued about the governance of Italian public pharmaceutical expenditure over the last 20 years.
Nicola Carmine Salerno, FFM, 22 October 2013, nicola.salerno@tin.it
2013-10-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/50884/1/MPRA_paper_50884.pdf
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine (2013): Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a Medio-Lungo Termine della Spesa Farmaceutica.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:51056
2019-10-04T13:35:05Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51056/
Demografia, Occupazione e Produttività in Italia e nelle Regioni italiane [terza parte del progetto "Il presente e il futuro del Pay-Go in Italia, Europa e Us"]
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine
H00 - General
H10 - General
H20 - General
H21 - Efficiency ; Optimal Taxation
H22 - Incidence
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
H32 - Firm
H68 - Forecasts of Budgets, Deficits, and Debt
I00 - General
I10 - General
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
J10 - General
J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
J14 - Economics of the Elderly ; Economics of the Handicapped ; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
J20 - General
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J26 - Retirement ; Retirement Policies
The circular interplay between demography-employment-productivity-PayGo is investigated for Italy and Italian geographical repartitions. Looking forward to the mid-long run, the paper offers simulations of the burden each effective worker and each active citizen will have to bear to finance via pay-as-you-go public health care provisions and pensions. This paper is completely self standing but, at the same time, it is part of the wider project "Present and Future of PayGo in Italy, Europe and Us". It constitutes the third chapter of this project, the first and the second being uploaded on MPRA as well. Other chapters follow.
nicola c. salerno (nicola.salerno@tin.it)
2013-10-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51056/1/MPRA_paper_51056.pdf
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine (2013): Demografia, Occupazione e Produttività in Italia e nelle Regioni italiane [terza parte del progetto "Il presente e il futuro del Pay-Go in Italia, Europa e Us"].
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:51201
2019-10-04T17:20:19Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51201/
Il Pay-as-You-Go pubblico e privato: davvero diversi? Un confronto Europa - Us
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine
E0 - General
E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
H0 - General
H50 - General
H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
H60 - General
I00 - General
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
J1 - Demographic Economics
J10 - General
J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
Data from Stability Programs (European Countries) and from Us Congress Budget Office and Us Bureau of Census are collected to investigate the burden each worker will have to bear in the future in order to finance pension and health care provisions. If the private side of the system is based, exclusively or mainly, on the insurance pooling, is there any substantial difference between Europe and Us, with respect to future challenges. Is insurance pooling really different from pay-as-you-go financing, in a context of rapid population ageing? The structural roots of future challenges appears the same for Europe and Us, and perhaps also the policy solution. This paper is self standing but, at the same time, it is part of the broader project "Present and Future of PayGo in Italy, Europe and Us". All chapters will be collected in a book edited by Nicola Carmine Salerno.
2013-11-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51201/1/MPRA_paper_51201.pdf
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine (2013): Il Pay-as-You-Go pubblico e privato: davvero diversi? Un confronto Europa - Us.
it
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:51360
2019-10-03T00:13:50Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51360/
Proiezioni della spesa e del finanziamento dei Sistemi Sanitari Regionali in Italia [2015-2030]
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine
H00 - General
H22 - Incidence
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
H30 - General
H31 - Household
H32 - Firm
H39 - Other
H51 - Government Expenditures and Health
H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
H68 - Forecasts of Budgets, Deficits, and Debt
I00 - General
I12 - Health Behavior
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
The work constructs projections till 2030 for health care expenditures of Italian Regional Health Care Systems. Three different schemes of financing are hypothesised, with three different levels of solidarity between Regions. Financing is always supposed to cover the entire exigency of expenditure. The two sides - expenditures and financing - are matched in order to derive indicators of sustainability (pressures on Gdp, or on active people, or on workers...) and to provide quantifications of flows of resources moving between Regions for re-distributional goals.
A well-done mapping of needs and resources to finance them, with a full breakdown per Regions. A useful work for stimulating the debate on health system reforms in Italy, allowing informed decisions.
nicola c. salerno [nicola.salerno@tin.it]
2013-11-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51360/1/MPRA_paper_51360.pdf
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine (2013): Proiezioni della spesa e del finanziamento dei Sistemi Sanitari Regionali in Italia [2015-2030].
it
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:51682
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51682/
Finanziamento della Sanità - Limiti del PayGo e proposta di sistema multipilastro con Welfare Fund
Salerno, Nicola Carmine
H51 - Government Expenditures and Health
H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions
H68 - Forecasts of Budgets, Deficits, and Debt
I00 - General
I13 - Health Insurance, Public and Private
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
J18 - Public Policy
This paper describes the reasons at the basis of the insufficiency of pay-as-you-go systems to provide resources for financing health care in an ageing society with the low rates of growth that will characterise western industrialised economies during next decades.
Intuitive arguments are provided for supporting the diversification of pillars, with the public pay-as-you-go pillar combined with the private pillar functioning with real accumulation of resources on markets.
Finally, an innovative proposal is presented: The Welfare Funds. Long-term investors offering both pension and health care benefist, and connected with insurance policies for the covering of inability/disability risks.
nicola c. salerno - nicola.salerno@tin.it - 0039 347-9023927
2013-11-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51682/1/MPRA_paper_51682.pdf
Salerno, Nicola Carmine (2013): Finanziamento della Sanità - Limiti del PayGo e proposta di sistema multipilastro con Welfare Fund.
it
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:52614
2019-09-27T06:42:58Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/52614/
La Spesa sanitaria Ssn in Italia e nella Regione Emilia Romagna - Ricostruzione e benchmarking con la metodologia Ecofin-Ocse
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine
H51 - Government Expenditures and Health
H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions
H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
I0 - General
I00 - General
I1 - Health
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
J1 - Demographic Economics
The Ecofin-Oecd methodology is applied to reconstruct the health care expenditure evolution in Italy and in the Region Emilia Romagna. The reconstructed series can be compared to the historical series, highlighting the different capabilities of the Italian average and of the Region Emilia Romagna to govern the health care system.
It is the second edition of the Welfare Reforming Papers by Nicola C. Salerno.
2014-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/52614/1/MPRA_paper_52614.pdf
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine (2014): La Spesa sanitaria Ssn in Italia e nella Regione Emilia Romagna - Ricostruzione e benchmarking con la metodologia Ecofin-Ocse.
it
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:53415
2019-09-27T22:46:34Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D49:4931
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53415/
High fluoride and low pH level have been detected in popular flavoured beverages in Malaysia
Rahim, Zubaidah HA
Bakri, Marina M
Zakir, HM
Ahmed, IA
Zulkifli, NA
I00 - General
I1 - Health
Objective: In children, excessive ingestion of fluoride from different sources including bottled drinking
water and flavoured beverages or soft drinks can lead to the development of dental fluorosis. In addition, the
pH level of beverages is important. Low pH can cause dental erosion. In this study we explore the fluoride
content and pH level of certain popular beverages available in Malaysian supermarkets and hawkers’ stalls.
Methods: Bottled drinking water and selected popular flavoured packet drinks were purchased from a
supermarket and the corresponding flavoured hawkers’ drinks, from a hawker’s stall in Kuala Lumpur.
Fluoride and pH of the beverages were determined using digital fluoride meter and digital pH meter
respectively.
Results: It was found that fluoride content and pH level vary among the beverages. The mean fluoride content
in both packet and hawkers’ drinks (7.64±1.88 mg/L, 7.51±1.60 mg/L, respectively) was approximately 7
times higher than the bottled drinking water (1.05±0.35 mg/L). Among the beverages, the tea packet drink
was found to contain the highest amount of fluoride (13.02±0.23 mg/L). The mean pH of bottled-drinking
water was near neutral (6.96±0.17), but acidic for both supermarket (4.78.00±0.49) and hawkers’ drinks
(5.73±0.24). The lychee packet drink had the lowest pH level (2.97±0.03).
Conclusions: Due to the wide variation of the fluoride content and pH level of the drinks tested in this
study, it is recommended that steps should be taken to control the fluoride concentration and pH level in
beverages if dental fluorosis and erosion are to be prevented.
2014
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53415/1/MPRA_paper_53415.pdf
Rahim, Zubaidah HA and Bakri, Marina M and Zakir, HM and Ahmed, IA and Zulkifli, NA (2014): High fluoride and low pH level have been detected in popular flavoured beverages in Malaysia. Published in: Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences , Vol. 30, No. 2 (2014)
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:55585
2019-09-27T08:42:32Z
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7375626A656374733D51:5132:513238
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/55585/
Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design
Pilon, André Francisco
I00 - General
Q28 - Government Policy
Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q58 - Government Policy
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Problems of difficult settlement or solution in the world cannot be solved by segmented academic formats, market-place interests or mass-media headlines; instead of dealing with taken for granted issues (the apparent “bubbles” in the surface), public policies, research and teaching programmes should detect the issues and deal with them deep inside the boiling pot. Policy discussions and policy making require new paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded into the cultural, social, political and economical institutions (more critical than individual motives and morals). Urban planning cannot be subordinated to the interests of business corporations, cities cannot remain as privileged centers for profit and capital accumulation, transforming citizens in mere users and consumers, but must preserve and develop mankind heritage, encompassing history, values, architecture, landscapes, the arts, the letters. Being-in-the-world is more than living on it, it demands an ecosystemic approach, the construction of a new social fabric, as new structures emerge in the socio-cultural learning niches and develop critical capacities to operate changes in the system. Problem solving implies dynamic and complex configurations intertwining four dimensions of being-in-the-world, as they combine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events (deficits and assets), cope with consequences (desired or undesired) and contribute for change (diagnosis and prognosis): intimate (subject’s cognitive and affective processes), interactive (groups’ mutual support and values), social (political, economical and cultural systems) and biophysical (biological endowment, natural and man-made environments). An integrated ecosystemic approach to education, culture, environment, health, politics, economics and quality of life should develop the connections and seal the ruptures between the different dimensions of being-in-the-world, in view of their mutual support and dynamic equilibrium.
2013-03-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/55585/17/MPRA_paper_55585.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2013): Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:55789
2019-10-03T18:48:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/55789/
Differences in birth-weight outcomes: A longitudinal study based on siblings
Bacci, Silvia
Bartolucci, Francesco
Chiavarini, Manuela
Minelli, Liliana
Pieroni, Luca
I00 - General
Objectives We investigate about the differences in birthweight between firstand second-borns, evaluating the impact of changes in pregnancy (e.g., gestational age), demographic (e.g., age), and social (e.g., education level, marital status) maternal characteristics.
Data and Methods All analyses are performed on data collected in Umbria (Italy) taking into account a set of 792 women who delivered twice from 2005 to 2008. Firstly, we use a univariate paired t-test for the comparison between weights of first- and second-borns. Secondly, we use linear and nonlinear regression approaches in order to: (i) evaluate the effect of demographic and social maternal characteristics and (ii) predict the odds-ratio of low and high birthweight infants, respectively.
Results We find that the birthweight of second-borns is significantly higher than that of first-borns. Statistically significant effects are related with a longer gestational age, an increased number of visits during the pregnancy, and the gender of infants. On the other hand, we do not observe any significant effect related with mother’s age and with other characteristics of interest.
2014-05-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/55789/1/MPRA_paper_55789.pdf
Bacci, Silvia and Bartolucci, Francesco and Chiavarini, Manuela and Minelli, Liliana and Pieroni, Luca (2014): Differences in birth-weight outcomes: A longitudinal study based on siblings.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:56769
2019-09-28T18:06:08Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/56769/
Impact of Health on Earnings: Individual and District Level Analysis for Pakistan
Ahsan, Henna
Idrees, Dr Muhammad
I00 - General
The present study aims to explore the impact of health on productivity, measured through earnings at both individual level and district level of Pakistan. For individual analysis health is measured by various nutrition intakes (calories, protein and vitamin A) and for district analysis health is measured by nutrition intake as well as through regional health facilities (number of beds per earners and basic health units per earners) by obtaining the data from Household Integrated Economic Survey 2010-2011 and from various Provisional Development of Statistics. The study concludes that health is foremost element to enhance the productivity level. The unequal distribution of nutrition intake and health facilities causes the earnings inequality, to narrow down this earning inequality there is a need for fair distribution of nutrition intake and health facilities.
2014
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/56769/1/MPRA_paper_56769.pdf
Ahsan, Henna and Idrees, Dr Muhammad (2014): Impact of Health on Earnings: Individual and District Level Analysis for Pakistan.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:56777
2019-09-28T22:24:47Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/56777/
Can religion buy happiness? The case of Singapore
Salahodjaev, Raufhon
I0 - General
I00 - General
This paper investigates the determinants of life satisfaction in Singapore. Specifically we explore the effect of religiosity on life satisfaction. Using World Values Survey data, we find that in general religiosity leads to higher levels of life satisfaction. However, we do not find link between religious denomination and subjective wellbeing, except for Muslim and other religious denomination i.e. Taoist and Shenism.
2014-06-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/56777/1/MPRA_paper_56777.pdf
Salahodjaev, Raufhon (2014): Can religion buy happiness? The case of Singapore.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:56897
2019-10-01T00:28:12Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/56897/
Efficiency of health systems in sub-Sahara Africa: a comparative analysis of time varying stochastic frontier models
Novignon, Jacob
Lawanson, Akanni
I00 - General
I1 - Health
I12 - Health Behavior
The purpose of the current study was to estimate efficiency of health systems in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and to compare efficiency estimates from various time-varying frontier models. The study used data for 45 countries in SSA from 2005 to 2011 sourced from the Word Bank World Development Indicators. Parametric time-varying stochastic frontier models were used in the analysis. Infant survival rate was used as the outcome variable, while per-capita health expenditure was used as main controllable input. The results show some variations in efficiency estimates among the various models. Estimates from the ‘true’ random effect model were however preferable after controlling for unobserved heterogeneity which was captured in the inefficiency terms of the other frontier models. The results also suggest a wide variation in the efficiency of health systems in sub-Sahara Africa. On average health system efficiency was estimated to be approximately 0.80 which implies resource wastage of about 0.20. Cape Verde, Mauritius and Tanzania were estimated to be relatively efficient while Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone were among the least performers in terms of health system efficiency. The findings suggest that the omission of unobserved heterogeneity may lead to bias in estimated inefficiency. The ‘true’ random effect model was identified to address the problem of unobserved heterogeneity. The findings also suggest a generally poor performance of health systems in terms of efficiency in the use of resources. While resource commitment to the health sector is critical, it is important to also ensure the efficient use of these resources. Improving the performance of institutions in the health sector may go a long way in improving the general health status of the African population
2014-07-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/56897/1/MPRA_paper_56897.pdf
Novignon, Jacob and Lawanson, Akanni (2014): Efficiency of health systems in sub-Sahara Africa: a comparative analysis of time varying stochastic frontier models.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:61095
2019-09-26T08:09:09Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61095/
The Misty Grail: The Search for a Comprehensive Measure of Development and the Reasons of GDP Primacy
Felice, Emanuele
B40 - General
E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth ; Environmental Accounts
I00 - General
O10 - General
Q50 - General
The last decades have seen a flourishing of new indicators to measure economic progress, but none of them has succeded in replacing GDP. Why? The article reviews what are arguably the three most successful alternatives to GDP (the Human Development Index, the Genuine Progress Indica-tor, and the Happy Planet Index), by focusing on their conceptual foundations (the capability ap-proach, utilitarism, the wealth approach, or a mix of these) − rather than on statistical solidity or mathematical refinement as most of the literature does. After discussing their faults, it is shown that the wealth approach underlying GDP can be easily extended to include environmental and well-being components (non-market wealth measured at market prices), and to substantiate this claim es-timates of environment-augmented GDP for 130 countries are presented and discussed. However, up to the present not even this line of research has been successful. This suggests that among the reasons behind GDP primacy there is not only philosophical consistency or statistical soundness, but also social suitability, being the standard GDP more suitable to reflect the goals of capitalist-market economies. Constructing composite indicators alternative to GDP is trivial, until when the current preference system has not been changed. To achieve this change, a dashboard approach may be preferable to composite indicators, since the former provides the different social groups with in-telligible quantitative instruments.
2015-01-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61095/1/MPRA_paper_61095.pdf
Felice, Emanuele (2015): The Misty Grail: The Search for a Comprehensive Measure of Development and the Reasons of GDP Primacy.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:61297
2019-09-26T20:25:23Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61297/
Role of Vernacular FM stations in National Cohesion and Intergration in Kenya
Namasaka, Martin
I00 - General
I28 - Government Policy
Y40 - Dissertations (unclassified)
Z0 - General
In a development context, media has been characterized as innovator and mobiliser of positive transformation and this research dissertation has been written to establish the extent to which Kenyan media institutions, vernacular FM stations, have enhanced national cohesion and integration of the Kenyan society.
The NCIC, a government statutory body, has been tasked with the major objective of promoting and ensuring the cohesion and integration, is achieved. There has been in depth association of this body and the media fraternity in Kenya and more so the local vernacular FM stations in the study.
The methodology in this research gives the style, tools of collecting data from the respondents who were chosen from the specific vernacular Fm stations. The data presentation was done by use of SPSS software and depicting tabular and graphical presentation.
The summary of findings in chapter five critically looks at the diagrammatic and tabular presentation for the easy use of the would be disseminator with a compressive conclusion
2012-10-13
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/61297/1/MPRA_paper_61297.pdf
Namasaka, Martin (2012): Role of Vernacular FM stations in National Cohesion and Intergration in Kenya.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:62124
2019-09-28T03:25:19Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D51:5132:513238
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513531
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513536
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513538
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/62124/
Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design
Pilon, André Francisco
I00 - General
Q28 - Government Policy
Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q58 - Government Policy
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Problems of difficult settlement or solution in the world cannot be solved by segmented academic formats, market-place interests or mass-media headlines; instead of dealing with taken for granted issues (the apparent “bubbles” in the surface), public policies, research and teaching programmes should detect the issues and deal with them deep inside the boiling pot. Policy discussions and policy making require new paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded into the cultural, social, political and economical institutions (more critical than individual motives and morals). Urban planning cannot be subordinated to the interests of business corporations, cities cannot remain as privileged centers for profit and capital accumulation, transforming citizens in mere users and consumers, but must preserve and develop mankind heritage, encompassing history, values, architecture, landscapes, the arts, the letters. Being-in-the-world is more than living on it, it demands an ecosystemic approach, the construction of a new social fabric, as new structures emerge in the socio-cultural learning niches and develop critical capacities to operate changes in the system. Problem solving implies dynamic and complex configurations intertwining four dimensions of being-in-the-world, as they combine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events (deficits and assets), cope with consequences (desired or undesired) and contribute for change (diagnosis and prognosis): intimate (subject’s cognitive and affective processes), interactive (groups’ mutual support and values), social (political, economical and cultural systems) and biophysical (biological endowment, natural and man-made environments). An integrated ecosystemic approach to education, culture, environment, health, politics, economics and quality of life should develop the connections and seal the ruptures between the different dimensions of being-in-the-world, in view of their mutual support and dynamic equilibrium.
2013-03-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/62124/2/MPRA_paper_62124.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2013): Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:62801
2019-09-29T02:27:16Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/62801/
ÎNVĂŢĂMÂNTUL SUPERIOR LA GRANIŢA DE VEST A ROMÂNIEI MARI ACADEMIA DE DREPT DIN ORADEA(1919-1934)
Chirodea, Florentina
I00 - General
I2 - Education and Research Institutions
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
I28 - Government Policy
K0 - General
The study aims to research academic life and analyze issues of two categories of actors, that define activity of Oradea Academy of Law between 1919 and 1934, professors and students. The approach has required the use of specific methods for every subject of History, based on the documentary material and bibliography was taked in consideration predominant use of the diachronic analysis of interwar academic life and development of the teachers body from Oradea. Similarly, other methods of Historical research, document analysis and case study had formed our attention for describing and explaining events. Also, comparative analysis allowed us a deeper perception of the elements which prompted a certain sense to the historical evolution of high education of Oradea.
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/62801/1/MPRA_paper_62801.pdf
Chirodea, Florentina (2011): ÎNVĂŢĂMÂNTUL SUPERIOR LA GRANIŢA DE VEST A ROMÂNIEI MARI ACADEMIA DE DREPT DIN ORADEA(1919-1934). Published in:
ro
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:63760
2019-10-02T09:42:32Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/63760/
Does Sanitation Affect Health Outcomes? Evidence from India
Das, Amarendra
Das, Bibhunandini
I00 - General
I1 - Health
I19 - Other
In this paper we have attempted to unravel the disparity in sanitation facilities across rural and urban regions of Indian states and the impact of sanitation on health outcomes. Based on the 69th National Sample Survey data set which covers more than 95 000 households we find a wide disparity in the access to sanitation facilities across rural and urban areas of Indian states and across states. While the north-eastern and southern states perform better in sanitation indicators, the eastern and central part of India performs poorly. So far as the relationship between the sanitation and health outcome is concerned our analysis shows that better sanitation facilities do have a positive impact on the health outcomes. From our analysis of four diseases (stomach problem, malaria, skin diseases and fever) that are more caused due to sanitation facilities we observed that better sanitation facilities in terms of access to toilets and bathroom access to regular safe drinking water, practice of storing drinking water in metal or non-metal container, absence of flies and mosquitoes, having separate kitchen and proper disposal of wastes reduces the incidence of diseases
2015-04-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/63760/1/MPRA_paper_63760.pdf
Das, Amarendra and Das, Bibhunandini (2015): Does Sanitation Affect Health Outcomes? Evidence from India.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:65201
2019-09-28T03:52:19Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/65201/
Catastrophic health payments in Malawi: analysis of determinants using a zero-inflated beta regression
Mussa, Richard
I00 - General
The existing literature on out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments has tended to use binary models to analyse the determinants of catastrophic health spending. In so doing, the literature ignores the fact that shares of out-of-pocket health care payments which are used to define the binary dependent variables are fractional with a mass point at zero. Further to this, the literature makes no distinction between factors which influence the level and the risk of catastrophic health payments. In order to address these shortcomings, this paper departs from this approach, and uses the zero-inflated beta regression instead. The paper also derives elasticity formalae for the zero-inflated beta regression. These elasticities allow one to talk about both the statistical, and economic significance of the different determinants of health nonpayment, catastrophic health spending, and the risk of catastrophe. Data from Malawi's Third Integrated Household survey are used. The empirical results indicate that the same variable can have a different effect on the levels, and risk of catastrophic health spending as well as OOP health nonpayment.
2015-06-22
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Mussa, Richard (2015): Catastrophic health payments in Malawi: analysis of determinants using a zero-inflated beta regression.
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Job specifications for teaching HRM at university level
Bashir, Jibran
Afzal, Sara
I00 - General
Background:
This is a keen observation of various experienced HR Professionals about fresh HR graduates that when they move for job interviews after completing degrees they don’t know about practical Human Resource Management knowledge and they have no idea of how to execute HR functions in organizations. These graduates only know about some employee motivation theories and ideal HR
practices of some utopian organizations but they don’t have knowledge about real time human resource
department’s role in practicality.
View Point:
In authors’ view the reason of the above mentioned problem is that in various universities the teachers who are teaching HRM subject have never ever touched the industry as an HR professional and they have no idea of operational and strategic issues of HR Functions, and just on the basis of their theory based Masters or Ph.D. degrees they cannot transfer the real essence of subject to their students.
Paper Suggestions:
This paper suggests four job specifications for teaching positions in HRM subject on the basis of authors’ personal HRM teaching and learning experiences. First; HRM teachers need to have one comprehensive university degree of HRM in shape of Honors or Masters. Second; Teacher should have experience of hardcore HR by working as HR generalist in two to three organizations. Third;
Teachers need to have an experience of writing and presenting practitioner research papers in field of
HRM. Fourth; teacher should act as corporate trainer while transferring his practical knowledge to
university students.
Design/ Methodology: The methodology used is authors’ personal experience of teaching HRM and studying HRM in student life.
2012-12-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/65907/1/MPRA_paper_65907.pdf
Bashir, Jibran and Afzal, Sara (2012): Job specifications for teaching HRM at university level. Published in:
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Comparative Analysis of Factor Affecting Child Mortality in Pakistan
Rabbani, Sarah
Qayyun, Abdul
C25 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; Discrete Regressors ; Proportions ; Probabilities
C54 - Quantitative Policy Modeling
I00 - General
I1 - Health
This study is investigated determinants of child mortality in the Pakistan. The Pakistan is amongst one of the five countries who have the highest child mortality rates in the world. Literature on the subject has found extensive variation in causes of child death. We used micro-data of Pakistan Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) of 2006-07 collected by National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS). In the descriptive analysis, it is founded that neo-natal mortality rate is high for Pakistan. In econometric analysis, binary logit model was estimated using Maximum Likelihood Method (MLM). The study puts particular emphasis on the effect of wealth, mother’ education, exposure to media and ethnicity. Effect of mothers’ education, wealth, and exposure to media found significant determinants of child mortality in Pakistan. Knowledge on condition of a subject at national and local level gives a prerequisite for shaping efficient polices addressing the Problem.
2015
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/66533/1/MPRA_paper_66533.pdf
Rabbani, Sarah and Qayyun, Abdul (2015): Comparative Analysis of Factor Affecting Child Mortality in Pakistan.
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Maternal Health Care: The Case of Iron Supplementation in India
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali
Raza, Muhammad Ali
I00 - General
I10 - General
I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets
I12 - Health Behavior
I14 - Health and Inequality
I15 - Health and Economic Development
I19 - Other
Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the socioeconomic determinants of maternal iron supplementation and sufficient maternal iron supplementation as components of prenatal care. Micro-data having 25999 and 19764 observations for two models, i.e. maternal iron supplementation and maternal sufficient iron supplementation respectively has been taken from Indian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) 2005-06. To estimate the probability in both the models binary logistic regressions have been employed. The explanatory variables categorized into individual characteristics of the woman, household characteristics, health-related characteristics, community characteristics and regional characteristics have been embraced in the analysis. The results of the first model revealed that probability of iron supplementation is augmented by woman’ education, woman’ age at first marriage, woman’s working status, husband’s age, husband’s education, husband’s presence at prenatal visit, final say on woman’s health (by woman, woman and husband collectively and even husband alone as compared to someone else) and household covered by the health insurance. The birth-order of the child, woman’s living in small city and town as well as wealth index of the household slides down the probability of iron supplementation. The estimates of the second model explained that probability of sufficient iron supplementation is positively influenced by woman’s age at first marriage, woman’s education, husband’s age, husband’s presence at prenatal visit, final say on woman’s health-care (husband alone) and household wealth. The birth-order of the child and small city as place of residence negatively affect the likelihood of sufficient iron supplementation. The study proposed the targeted approach to enhance iron supplementation and sufficient iron supplementation in Indian women. The marginalized households should be targeted through cash transfer programs. Furthermore, the small cities and country sides should also be focused. The awareness and education of woman along with husband’s participation in maternal health-care cannot be ignored in policy making.
2013
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/66555/1/MPRA_paper_66555.pdf
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali and Raza, Muhammad Ali (2013): Maternal Health Care: The Case of Iron Supplementation in India. Published in: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences , Vol. 7, No. 2 (2013): pp. 263-275.
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An empirical study of work and family life spheres and emergence of work-life balance initiatives under uncertain economic scenario.
Naithani, Pranav
Jha, A.N.
I0 - General
I00 - General
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
J30 - General
L00 - General
L20 - General
M5 - Personnel Economics
M50 - General
In the last six decades, work life and family life spheres of employees have undergone various changes. This paper presents an empirical study of major factors which have influenced employee work-life balance and popular work-life balance tools initiated at organisational level to help an employee balance different life segments such as work, family, personal finances, career and health. Current work-life balance approach, tools and programmes at organisational level primarily address those issues of work and personal life which got highlighted between the 1950’s and later years of the 20th century. Current global recession in the 21st century has created an uncertain economic scenario in which employers and employees are facing new challenges and earlier work-life balance research might not be sufficient enough address the new issues. This calls for further research on work-life balance, for a wider applicability of work-life balance programmes at organisational level.
2009-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/67421/8/MPRA_paper_67421.pdf
Naithani, Pranav and Jha, A.N. (2009): An empirical study of work and family life spheres and emergence of work-life balance initiatives under uncertain economic scenario. Published in: Growth-Journal of the Management Training Institute , Vol. 37, No. 1 (2009): pp. 69-73.
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Comparative analysis of factor affecting child mortality in Pakistan
Rabbani, Sarah
Qayyum, Abdul
C25 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; Discrete Regressors ; Proportions ; Probabilities
C54 - Quantitative Policy Modeling
I00 - General
I1 - Health
This study is investigated determinants of child mortality in the Pakistan. The Pakistan is amongst one of the five countries who have the highest child mortality rates in the world. Literature on the subject has found extensive variation in causes of child death. We used micro-data of Pakistan Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) of 2006-07 collected by National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS). In the descriptive analysis, it is founded that neo-natal mortality rate is high for Pakistan. In econometric analysis, binary logit model was estimated using Maximum Likelihood Method (MLM). The study puts particular emphasis on the effect of wealth, mother’ education, exposure to media and ethnicity. Effect of mothers’ education, wealth, and exposure to media found significant determinants of child mortality in Pakistan. Knowledge on condition of a subject at national and local level gives a prerequisite for shaping efficient polices addressing the Problem.
2015
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/67498/1/MPRA_paper_66533.pdf
Rabbani, Sarah and Qayyum, Abdul (2015): Comparative analysis of factor affecting child mortality in Pakistan.
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Foreign higher education institutes in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
Naithani, Pranav
I00 - General
M00 - General
Gulf cooperation council (GCC) countries are witnessing an exponential growth in new foreign higher education institutions on account of government policies which promote setting up of local campuses of renowned foreign universities. But GCC countries have not been able to adequately address key quality related issues in higher education domain resulting into poor participation of local workforce in the private sector. This paper presents key issues in private higher education in GCC countries which need to be addressed on a priority basis by the local governments to help improve the quality of higher education.
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/68719/1/MPRA_paper_68719.pdf
Naithani, Pranav (2011): Foreign higher education institutes in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Published in: The Alternative: Journal of Management Studies and Research , Vol. 10, No. 1 (2011): pp. 46-52.
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/68722/
Influence of subject choice, work overload and work stress on expatriate higher education teachers.
Naithani, Pranav
I00 - General
Subject choice, work overload and work stress influence personal and professional lives of higher education teachers. Though the majority of higher education teachers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are expatriates, yet research on expatriate higher education teachers working in the GCC countries is limited. This paper presents one part of the work life balance survey and focuses on the influence of subject choice, work overload and work stress on higher education teachers in the GCC countries.
2013
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/68722/1/MPRA_paper_68722.pdf
Naithani, Pranav (2013): Influence of subject choice, work overload and work stress on expatriate higher education teachers. Published in: Advances in Asian Social Science , Vol. 4, No. 1 (2013): pp. 793-798.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:71787
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Finance and Inclusive Human Development: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice
Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.
E00 - General
G20 - General
I00 - General
O10 - General
This study investigates direct and indirect linkages between financial development and inclusive human development in data panels for African countries using a battery of estimation techniques, notably: Two-Stage Least Squares, Fixed Effects, Generalized Method of Moments and Tobit regressions. The dependent variable is the inequality adjusted human development index. All dimensions of the Financial Development and Structure Database (FDSD) of the World Bank are considered. The main finding is that financial dynamics of depth, activity and size improve inclusive human development, whereas the inability of banks to transform mobilized deposits into credit for financial access negatively affects inclusive human development. Policy implications are discussed in the light of fighting surplus liquidity and providing information sharing offices (like public credit registries and private credit bureaus) that would reduce information asymmetry between lenders and borrowers.
2015-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/71787/1/MPRA_paper_71787.pdf
Asongu, Simplice and Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. (2015): Finance and Inclusive Human Development: Evidence from Africa. Forthcoming in: Brussels Economic Review
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The Extent of Overweight Among US Children and Adolescents from 1971-2000
Jolliffe, Dean
I0 - General
I00 - General
I1 - Health
CONTEXT: The prevalence of overweight (OW) among children in the United States has increased during the last three decades, but prevalence measures fail to reveal the extent to which OW children exceed the OW threshold.
OBJECTIVE: To measure the amount by which OW children exceed the OW threshold. To examine the trend in this measure over the last three decades using data with measured weights and heights.
DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Data used for analysis are from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for persons between 2 and 19 y of age from 1971 to 2000. Anthropometric measures were obtained by trained health technicians, and the sample sizes range from 4037 in 1999–2000 to 10 590 in 1988–1994.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: The extent of OW is measured as the average amount by which each child's body mass index (BMI) exceeds their age and gender-specific OW threshold. This measure is examined by sex, age group and race/ethnicity. The OW threshold for those aged 2–19 y is defined as at or above the 95th percentile of the sex-specific BMI for age growth charts.
RESULTS: The extent of child OW has been increasing faster than the prevalence of child OW for all classifications considered in this paper, including the analysis by age, sex, race and ethnicity. The prevalence of OW for children aged 2–19 y increased by 182% between 1971–1971 and 1999–2000, while the extent of OW increased by 247% over the same time period.
CONCLUSIONS: Unlike prevalence measures, the measure of the extent of child OW is sensitive to changes in the BMI distribution of the overweight. This analysis reveals that not only have more children become OW in the last three decades, but OW children have been getting heavier.
2004
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/71871/1/MPRA_paper_71871.pdf
Jolliffe, Dean (2004): The Extent of Overweight Among US Children and Adolescents from 1971-2000. Published in: International Journal of Obesity , Vol. 28, No. 1 (2004): pp. 4-9.
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Child Disability, Children’s Time with Mother and Maternal Employment
Mahmud, Mir
I00 - General
Empirical estimates of the effect of child disability on maternal employment vary considerably as the disability definitions are changed. Literature is also constrained by the limited availability of information about presence and severity of health conditions of children. Hence, researchers construct disability index based on the parent-reported health status of the child. In this paper, we construct a Disability definition based on the framework provided by ICF-CY(2007). Disability definition was constructed using the presence of a physician-diagnosed health condition reported by the parents. Powers (2003) who argued that parent’s report of the health limitation of the child may be jointly determined by the labor market outcomes of the parents. However, when parents are asked to report any diagnosis of specific health condition, the report can be assumed to be objective. In the absence of administrative record of the diagnosis of child health, this measure is the closest proxy. We find that child disability variables do not affect the labor force participation of the single mothers or married mothers. However, married mothers’ with lower educational attainment increase their weekly work hours despite the presence of a child with either impairment or activity limitation. Weekly labor supply of the married mothers with a greater level of education is not perturbed by the presence of a disabled child.
2016-04-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/72816/1/MPRA_paper_72816.pdf
Mahmud, Mir (2016): Child Disability, Children’s Time with Mother and Maternal Employment.
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Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design
Pilon, André Francisco
I00 - General
Q28 - Government Policy
Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q58 - Government Policy
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Problems of difficult settlement or solution in the world cannot be solved by segmented academic formats, market-place interests or mass-media headlines; instead of dealing with taken for granted issues (the apparent “bubbles” in the surface), public policies, research and teaching programmes should detect the issues and deal with them deep inside the boiling pot. Policy discussions and policy making require new paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded into the cultural, social, political and economical institutions (more critical than individual motives and morals). Urban planning cannot be subordinated to the interests of business corporations, cities cannot remain as privileged centers for profit and capital accumulation, transforming citizens in mere users and consumers, but must preserve and develop mankind heritage, encompassing history, values, architecture, landscapes, the arts, the letters. Being-in-the-world is more than living on it, it demands an ecosystemic approach, the construction of a new social fabric, as new structures emerge in the socio-cultural learning niches and develop critical capacities to operate changes in the system. Problem solving implies dynamic and complex configurations intertwining four dimensions of being-in-the-world, as they combine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events (deficits and assets), cope with consequences (desired or undesired) and contribute for change (diagnosis and prognosis): intimate (subject’s cognitive and affective processes), interactive (groups’ mutual support and values), social (political, economical and cultural systems) and biophysical (biological endowment, natural and man-made environments). An integrated ecosystemic approach to education, culture, environment, health, politics, economics and quality of life should develop the connections and seal the ruptures between the different dimensions of being-in-the-world, in view of their mutual support and dynamic equilibrium.
2013-03-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/72905/10/MPRA_paper_72905.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2013): Building a New World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Global Change & Development Design.
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