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Abstract : Abuse and neglect of older adults (« elder abuse ») has a significant impact on the lives of the individuals involved. At the same time, it has a broader social and economic cost. Many of these are « hidden costs » in the sense that the cause of the underlying problem is not...
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neglect. Results indicate that the average cost amounted to $4,378/family/year. This includes an average of 2.1 visits by a … Public Health Nurse and 29 home visits by Family Visitors. The full cost of professional services appeared to be …
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Reliability has been largely applied to industrial systems in order to study the various possibilities of systems … minimal paths leading to any system’s fault allows for a better control of systems’ safety. To this end, reliability is … theory to credit risk assessment. The author explains that fault tree is one alternative approach of reliability, which …
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Policy towards speculative bubbles is examined in a model of a finite horizon 'greater fool' bubble, with rational … dynamics and welfare economics to analyze bubble policies. Government policy is modeled as deflating overpriced assets by … revealing information about whether or not the asset is overpriced. It is shown that such a policy tends to improve welfare if …
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Policy plays a significant role in nation building. This paper attempts to highlight the role of policy issues in … policies. If we take a snapshot of our history of the last 60 years since independence, we find that many policy initiatives … may lead to social and economic fragmentation of the country. We also bring out few recent policy initiatives of the …
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agenda for reform is clear. Therefore, the thrust of this project is to formulate a model-based viable health policy reforms …
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This paper consists of the page proofs of W. A. Barnett's interview of Paul A. Samuelson, to appear in print in the journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics, in September 2004. To our knowledge, this is the first and only interview of Paul A. Samuelson published in a professional economics journal. In...
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Bad policies (i.e., policies harmful to private producers such as excessive taxation, arbitrary confiscation, and negligence of pubic goods) are observed in quite a few countries. These countries tend to have autocratic regimes.I explore a reason why bad policies may benefit autocrats.I present...
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In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries, three years after publication of the Commission’s...
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