Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 9,028
Cover Image
Empirical Analysis of Field Data on HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Khartoum State, Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
level affect the HIV/AIDS incidence Khartoum state. The trends of the disease during 2007 have indicated that, the pandemic … pandemic is at increasing rate for both sexes males and females positive although the positive cases for males were greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147890
Cover Image
Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004
The Washington Consensus suffers from fundamental inadequacies, and that a more comprehensive framework of the economic process is needed to guide the formulation of country-specific development strategies. The following five propositions summarise the set of interrelated arguments made in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556001
Cover Image
Some Fundamental Inadequacies of the Washington Consensus: Misunderstanding the Poor by the Brightest
Woo, Wing - EconWPA - 2004
The Washington Consensus suffers from fundamental inadequacies, and that a more comprehensive framework of the economic process is needed to guide the formulation of country-specific development strategies. The following five propositions summarise the set of interrelated arguments made in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118852
Cover Image
ПРЕДПОСЫЛКИ ГЛОБАЛЬНОЙ ГЕОПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ИНВЕРСИИ
ВСЕВОЛОДОВИЧ, БАЛАЦКИЙ ЕВГЕНИЙ - In: Экономические и социальные … (2014) 3, pp. 36-52
В статье рассматривается возможность смены нынешнего глобального лидера мировой экономики США. Для этого вводится понятие геополитической инверсии, под...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011232227
Cover Image
Policy restrictions and services performance: Evidence from 32 countries
He, Xiaobo; Findlay, Christopher - In: Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy … 05 (2014) 01, pp. 1440003-1
The impact of services trade and investment policy which affects the performance of the service sector is the topic of this paper. The performance indicator is not the services share of total output but the services shares in the gross value of goods exports. We find that a more restrictive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754089
Cover Image
International Externalities in Pandemic Influenza Mitigation
Hutton, Stephen - 2011
A serious influenza pandemic could be devastating for the world. Ideally, such a pandemic could be contained, but this … may be infeasible. One promising method for pandemic mitigation is to treat infectious individuals with antiviral … realistic Global Epidemiological Model (GEM). This GEM simulates pandemic spread between cities through the international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450676
Cover Image
Stigma, Discrimination, and HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean
Aggleton, Peter; Parker, Richard; Maluwa, Miriam - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
This paper focuses on a rather unexplored dimension to date of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: the resulting stigma and discrimination and its impact on the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS programs. It presents a conceptual framework that explains the interplay between stigma, discrimination and human rights....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352049
Cover Image
Resource Requirements to Fight HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2004
This report examines the resource needs for mounting a comprehensive HIV/AIDS program in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and provides information on estimated changes in the cost of selected prevention, treatment and care interventions. In addition, it gives an estimate of the annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357903
Cover Image
Mortality From the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919: The Case of India
Chandra, Siddharth; Kuljanin, Goran; Wray, Jennifer - In: Demography 49 (2012) 3, pp. 857-865
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010557576
Cover Image
Economics and Ethics of Results-Based Financing for Family Planning: Evidence and Policy Implications
Chowdury, Sadia; Vergeer, Petra; Schmidt, Harald; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
This paper was developed for World Bank task team leaders (TTLs) and teams designing results-based financing (RBF) programs in family planning (FP). It explores the rationale for introducing such incentives based on insights from classical and behavioral economics, to respond to supply- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754599