Severe shortages of capital impose severe restraints on the implementation of cost-effective efficient lighting technologies in Eastern Europe. The article examines whether third-party finance provided by energy-service companies can help improve energy efficiency in lighting by providing the...

A central theme of health policy has concerned the public's participation in primary health care services, both as individual consumers and collectively as communities. In the U.K. primary care increasingly centres on general practice. This paper reports an exploratory study undertaken with...

The principal cause of the 1930s depression in Southeast Asia lay outside the region — through a sharp contraction in demand for the region’s major commodity exports. But it had important internal causes too: an oversupply of primary commodities and an increasing scarcity of new agricultural...