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Taking Stock of Fiscal Health: Trends in Global, Regional, and Country Level Health Financing
Fleisher, Lisa; Leive, Adam; Schieber, George - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
This note analyzes levels and trends of health expenditures by country, income group, and region in the context of overall government revenue, expenditure, and GDP trends between 1995 and 2010. The study uses available data from the World Health Organization's (WHO) National Health Accounts, the...
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Does the IMF Influence Fiscal and Monetary Policy?
Dreher, Axel - In: Journal of Economic Policy Reform 8 (2005) 3, pp. 225-238
In theory, the IMF could influence fiscal and monetary policy via several channels, among them advice to policy makers, conditionality, and the moral hazard it induces with the borrowers. This article tries to disentangle those effects empirically. Using panel data for 98 countries over the...
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The impact of mediating factors on youth social capital and substance use
Unlu, Ali; Sahin, Ismail - In: International Journal of Public Policy 11 (2015) 1/2/3, pp. 110-127
, ethnicity, income level and mobility. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2007 was employed and structural equation … a negative relationship with substance use. The impact of social capital varies by age, gender, ethnicity, mobility and …
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Migration, Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union - Space of Freedom and Security
Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political … studies’, while research should cover migration as a whole, migration and mobility being analysed from different points of … workers’ mobility at the European level. The waves of illegal immigrants arriving continuously on the Spanish, Italian and …
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The social capital legacy of communism-results from the Berlin Wall experiment
Boenisch, Peter; Schneider, Lutz - In: European Journal of Political Economy 32 (2013) C, pp. 391-411
attitudes toward spatial mobility. We argue that the communist regime induced a specific social capital mix that discouraged … geographic mobility even after its demise. Theoretically, we integrate two branches of the social capital literature into one … the causal effect of social capital on mobility. We estimate a three equation ordered probit model and provide strong …
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Towards a Latin America free of casualties due to lack of road safety: The case of Brazil. "An analysis of road casualties in Brazil focusing on road traffic conditions and road ac...
Resende, Paulo; Diez-Roux, Esteban; Mendoza, Sissi … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
As part of its Road Safety Initiative, the IDB is working with strategic partners to raise awareness about the importance of road safety during the UN Decade for Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. The IDB and Fundação Dom Cabral co-published this technical note to highlight the need for road...
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Lives versus Livelihoods during the COVID-19 Pandemic : How Testing Softens the Trade-off
Islamaj, Ergys; Le, Duong Trung; Mattoo, Aaditya
The early COVID-19 pandemic literature focused on the conflict between lives and livelihoods. But cross-country evidence reveals that across countries high mortality rates were often associated with large gross domestic product contractions. This paper shows that the presumed trade-off was...
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Factors Associated with Level-of-Living in Washington County, Mississippi
McCoy, John L. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1974
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Confidence and the Erosion of Confidence : Economic Functions and Effects
Sell, Friedrich L. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2004
sogenannten Sozialkapital zu leisten vermag und porträtieren die Erosion von Vertrauen innerhalb, zwischen und gegenüber US …
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SOCIAL CAPITAL, TRANSITION IN AGRICULTURE, AND ECONOMIC ORGANISATION: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE
Valentinov, Vladislav - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2003
latter. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Sozialkapital wird definiert als geteiltes Wissen, Vertrauen und gemeinsame Kultur, eingebettet in … Netzwerkstrukturen und andere stabile Beziehungen zwischen Agenten. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass Sozialkapital schwieriger aufzubauen ist … Sozialkapital-Konzeptes für die Agenda der Transformationsländer wird erklärt durch die wachsende Verantwortung von privaten …
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