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Medical Savings Accounts in Singapore : How much is adequate?
Chia, Ngee-Choon; Tsui, Albert K C - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
While many studies have examined the cost-containment aspect of Medical savings accounts (MSA), few have investigated the adequacy of MSA to finance the health care expenditure. This paper estimates the present value of lifetime healthcare expenses (PVHE) of the Singaporean male and female...
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Health Care Services and Government Spending in Pakistan
Akram, Muhammad; Khan, Faheem Jehangir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on health in Pakistan at provincial, both rural and urban level; using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard Living Measures Survey (PSLM), 2004-05, and by employing the three-step Benefit Incidence...
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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan
Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
labour force and reduced burden-of-disease. Water and Sanitation is the neglected sector in Pakistan. Most of the households …
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Emergence of China and India in the New Millennium : Will it Facilitate Market Access for LDCs and Developing Countries?
Mohanty, S. K.; Chaturvedi, Sachin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
China and India have emerged as highly dynamic economies in recent years. In the Asian region their growth and economic … dependence of India and China is mostly on the industrial intermediate sector, which is critical for their exports. It is … technology is examined. India and China have made steady progress in frontier technologies such as ICT and biotechnology, and …
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Financial Sector Development, FDI and Economic Growth in China.
Ljungwall, Christer; Li, Junjie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
increasing the rate of economic growth. Little attention, however, has been devoted to confirm or reject this link for China …
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The Pattern of Growth in Indonesia after the Economic Crisis 1997/1998 : Does the Primary Sector Still Need to Support Economic Growth?
Hirawan, Fajar Bambang; Cesaratto, Sergio - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper aims to examine the pattern of growth in Indonesia, especially after the economic crisis 1997/1998. Indonesia suffered a catastrophic economic crisis from the year 1997 until 1999 and the economy improved from the year 2000 even though it was still dependant on the non-economic...
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Growth Diagnostics in Pakistan
Qayyum, Abdul; Khawaja, Idrees; Hyder, Asma - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Following the Hausmann, et al. (2005) methodology, we attempt to identify the constraints to growth in Pakistan. We argue that governance failure and institutional shortcomings are the heart of the matter : corruption is rampant, judicial independence is low, educational institutions do not...
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How Does Financial System Efficiency Affect the Growth Impact of FDI in China?
Xu, Ying - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
In spite of being the second largest recipient of FDI in the world, China shows limited evidence of considerable FDI … whether poor financial market development might be responsible for the relatively low benefits of FDI on growth in China. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365250
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Tourism Satellite Account for India
Shukla, Rajesh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
With the growing recognition of tourism as a source of employment generating growth in the country, improved understanding of what tourism is, its role in the economy and its relationship to other parts of the economy is important. The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is a new framework recently...
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Cost-effectiveness analysis and its application for policy evaluation for medicine or public health
Ohkusa, Yasushi; Sugawara, Tamie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
official rule for the method of policy evaluation for medicine or public health in Japan, yet. Thus we show some researches … even in political decision making in medicine or public health in Japan. …
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