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Price and Income Elasticity of Imports: The Case of Pakistan
Baluch, Khurram Ashfaq; Bukhari, Syed Kalim Hyder - eSocialSciences - 2012
The paper estimates the elasticity of Imports with respect to relative prices and income for Pakistan from 1971 to 2009. What distinguishes this paper from the earlier studies is the use of robust estimation technique of Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model utilizing the bounds test...
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Let’s Be Straight Up about the Alcohol Industry
eSocialSciences; PLoS Medicine Editors - 2011
Alcohol industry is a massive and growing US$150 billion global business—have not yet received adequate prominence in … medical journals. Indeed, attention to and scientific research on the alcohol industry have not kept pace with the industryâ …
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Health Education
Dube, Nandini - eSocialSciences - 2012
There is an uneven geographical distribution of health workers. The shortage of health workers is compounded by the fact that their skills, competencies, clinical experience, and expectations are often poorly suited to the health needs of the populations they serve. All such problems are taken...
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Price Elasticity Estimates for Tobacco and Other Addictive Goods in India
John, Rijo - eSocialSciences - 2005
net. Analysis of the price elasticity of various tobacco products would bring out the potential of tax as an instrument to … control tobacco use of any kind. In this context, this paper examines how the demand for a variety of tobacco products and … addictive goods such as pan and alcohol respond to changes in prices. [IGIDR WP 2005-003]. …
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A Framework for Developing a Research Agenda for Diseases Disproportionately Affecting the Poor:The Cases of Malaria, Diabetes, Rotavirus
Smith, Alyna C - eSocialSciences - 2011
In this paper three diseases- malaria,diabetes and rotavirus- selected because of their contrast. The paper examines the severity of their presence in developing countries and suggests viable solutions.
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Drug Regulation in the Philippines
Sobrepeña, Allan Grand A. - eSocialSciences - 2009
are being used as an argument for greater government role in the drugs sector through effective regulation of the drug … of the drug issue will revolve. This paper provides a quick glance at the pharmaceutical sector at the global level and … provide a more in-depth discussion of the pharmaceutical sector in the country. The paper explains why drug prices in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980026
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Fighting Drugs and Building Peace: Towards Policy Coherence between Counter-Narcotics and Peace Building
Rubin, Barnett R. - eSocialSciences - 2008
done for cocaine and heroin or were there unique features and challenges to drug-related conflicts? How could one build … sustainable peace in areas where governance is undermined by drug mafias? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699077
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Aggregate Fertility and Household Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis using Micro Data
Banerjee, Abhijit; Meng, Xin; Porzio, Tommaso; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2014
This study uses micro data and an OLG model to show that general equi- librium forces are critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. [BREAD WP No. 415].
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Neighborhood and Agricultural Clusters across States of India
Chaterjee, Tirtha; Kumar, A. Ganesh - eSocialSciences - 2014
mechanization, infrastructural support, deviations from normal rainfall and price differences, higher are the chances that they will …
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A Spatial Integration Analysis of the Regional Fertilizer Markets in the Philippines
Galang, Ivory Myka R. - eSocialSciences - 2014
crops. Based on the available fertilizer price data, it can be observed that price levels vary greatly across regions. To … the Granger causality test, it is found that the price in one region either causes or affects prices in another region … one or few dealers of fertilizer to control the market price of fertilizer. …
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