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already applied in the literature about equity in taxation, as the criterion for making rigorous inequality comparisons. In … care finance and horizontal equity in health care delivery in developed countries, to a 1998-1999 household survey about … equity measurements in access to care for future evaluations of the impact of health care reforms in Africa. …
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"?The central issue is that of equity, in a context of conflict of interests, where all the countries do not contribute to GHG … possible cost.Our paper addresses the two inter-related issues of equity and cost-efficiency: we examine the conditions in …
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The paper investigates a climate-economy model with an iso-elastic welfare function in which one parameter gamma measures relative risk-aversion and a distinct parameter rho measures resistance to intertemporal substitution. We show both theoretically and numerically that climate policy responds...
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Investigations of long-run sustainability of joint ecological-economic systems highlight the pertinence of …
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the use of environmental services and so is a direct cause of environmental degradation. The environment is valued both as … a source of consumption and as an amenity. For a sustainability concern, we introduce an endogenous discount rate … marginal discount rate allows us to avoid the depletion of the environment. …
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long-run migration, provides a double- dividend in favor of the environment, reduces inequality if the migrants' impact to … migration, reduces climate change, increases North-South inequality if DRTS are significant; (v) a greener technology reduces … overall climate change is large. The preference over the policies thus depends on whether the policy maker targets inequality …
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In many developed countries attempts to reform physicians payment schemes have failed. To analyze some of the difficulties, this paper studies reforms of payment schemes in situations such as the physician agency, where the quality of the good produced is imperfectly observable by the payer. We...
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La cohesión social, concepto especialmente valorado como expresión y resultado del modelo social europeo y asociado al significado del estado de bienestar, quiere transmitir un conjunto de valores como el sentido de pertenencia, equilibrios en la gestión de los asuntos públicos, control de...
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Value and growth investment styles are a concept which has gained extreme popularity over the past two decades, probably due to its practical efficiency and relative simplicity. We study the mechanics of different factors' impact on excess returns in a multivariate setting. We use a panel of...
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ensure equity and efficiency and funding for the longer term. We also define a contributory financing scheme for higher …
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