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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF A WEAK JUDICIARY: INSIGHTS FROM INDIA
Koehling, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002
This paper examines the empirical relationship between the quality of the Indian judiciary and the economic development of the Indian States and Union Territories. It evaluates this causality by analysing the development of the state-level per capita income and poverty rates. I define the...
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556956
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Exploring the Social and Economic Costs of Abuse in Later lIfe
Spencer, Charmaine - EconWPA - 2000
in health, community, and justice services, as well as private industry (banking, housing, insurance) and government …
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The evolution of income inequality in the European Union
Alvarez-Garcia, Santiago; Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; … - EconWPA - 2003
The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. Using the information contained in the European Community Household Panel, corresponding to the four first waves. Using the inverse second order stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076592
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Income Distributions versus Lotteries: Happiness, Response Mode Effects and Preference Reversals
Morone, Andrea; Seidl, Christian; Camacho-Cuena, Eva - EconWPA - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408217
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Trade policy, cross-border externalities and lobbies: do linked agreements enforce more cooperative outcomes?
Limão, Nuno - EconWPA - 2002
If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non-pecuniary externalities), will this promote more cooperation in both policies or will cooperation in one policy be strengthened at the expense of the other? We analyze this question in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124914
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Empirical Estimates for Environmental Policy Making in a Second- Best Setting
West, Sarah E.; III, Roberton C. Williams - EconWPA - 2004
This study estimates parameters necessary to calculate the optimal second-best gasoline tax, most notably the cross-price elasticity between gasoline and leisure. Prior work indicates that in a second-best setting with distortionary income taxes, both the cost of environmental regulation and the...
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Settlement finality as a public good in large-value payment systems
Humphrey, David; Pages, Henri - EconWPA - 2005
Target is a real time gross settlement (RTGS) large value payment network operated by European central banks that eliminates systemic risk. Euro1 is a privately operated delayed net settlement (DNS) network that reduces substantially systemic risk but does not eliminate it. This difference makes...
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The Strategy-Proof Provision of Public Goods under Congestion and Crowding Preferences
Jackson, Matthew O.; Nicolo, Antonio - EconWPA - 2002
We examine the strategy-proof provision of excludable public goods when agents care not only about the level of provision of a public good, but also the number of consumers. We show that on such domains strategy- proof and efficient social choice functions satisfying an outsider independence...
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