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Health economics is increasingly recognized as a discipline that has much to offer developing countries in addressing these problems, but how can it help? What economic concepts and tools can be applied to the health sector? A wider understanding of the discipline is required if it is to support...
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People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life expectancy decreased for many years after 1945, and the...
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significant increase in the number iof hospital beds to meet the growing health demands of its poopulalation. Most of this growth … has been experienced in the small sized private hospital sector (popularly known as nursing homes in India). The corporate … hospital sector, however has not exhibited similar growth though private expenditures on medical and health care in real terms …
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Government healthcare expenditures have been growing much more rapidly than GDP in OECD countries. For example, between 1970 and 2002 these expenditures grew 2.3 times faster than GDP in the U.S., 2.0 times faster than GDP in Germany, and 1.4 times faster than GDP in Japan. How much of...
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The budget 2006-07 proposals in health care fell well short of India’s march towards achieving Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), the National Health Policy (NHP) goals and fully operationalising the National Rural Health Mission. Two questions still remain: (a) when will the urban bias...
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transactions, or is viewed as an issue to be addressed by curricula for cultural preservation or national integration. A study …
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Within the past decade, national levels of labour productivity in CEECs have converged significantly towards the levels predominant in the EU. Yet, levels are still significantly lower, large gaps are still prevalent. Needless to say, levels within the EU also differ greatly; comparisons with...
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Lecture at RIS, New Delhi December 2005
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In recent years there has been a strong focus on ‘Islamic radicalisation’ in Europe, due both to the threat of terrorism and its security implications, and to the issue of integrating second generation migrants in Europe. This paper analyses two main approaches to studying the roots...
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This paper discusses the integration of religious minorities in China, in particular, of the Hui Muslims. From the pre …-Islamic relations between Arabia and China, to the Song period, the Mongol period, and the eventual integration during the Ming period … did not view it as a threat. The paper explores the circumstances surrounding the final integration of Muslims during the …
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