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Income inequality and health: importance of a cross-country perspective

Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; … - 2010

related to health status across middle/low and high-income countries. The dependent variable is self-assessed health (SAH …. Correcting for national differences in health reporting behavior, individual absolute income is found to be positively related to … individual health. Furthermore, in the high-income sample, there is strong evidence that average income within a peer-age group …

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Health and wealth: Dietary supplements, network marketing and the commodification of health

Dixon, Anna R - 2003

members of three companies. Aside from gathering baseline data on products used, health conditions addressed by these products … product distributor, factors such as control over one's health, creation of a support community through shared efforts, and … inform network marketers' beliefs and desires for autonomy in the spheres of finance, personal life, and health. …

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Der Mangel an Spenderorganen : Ursachen und Lösungsmöglichkeiten aus ökonomischer Sicht

Breyer, Friedrich; Kliemt, Hartmut - 2007

There is an increasing shortage of human organ transplants in Germany. This paper aims at understanding the reasons for that shortage and discusses various ways to alleviate it by changing the rules of donation and procurement. In particular we consider creating adequate incentives for hospitals...

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Government policy, HEI's and entrepreneurship in industry development : an example from Queensland, Australia

Senyard, Julienne M.; Pickernell, David; Keast, Robyn L.; … - 2008

Universities are increasingly being encouraged to take a leading role in entrepreneurial creation, whilst the entrepreneurship literature recognises the importance of economic development policy. Recent research has focused on evaluating roles and interactions of government policy, Higher...

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Analysis of the market structures and systems for indigenous fruit trees: the case for Uapaca Kirkiana in Zambia

Moombe, Kaala Bweembelo - 2009

This study is about marketing of Uapaca kirkiana fruit in Zambia, a fruit that has great economicvalue especially among the rural and urban poor. It contributes to general food security. Insouthern Africa, farmers and other stakeholders have identified Uapaca as a priority species...

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Designing Market Based Instruments: Beyond Round One of the Australian MBI Pilot Program

Lansdell, Nicola; Stoneham, Gary - 2006

Most markets have evolved as buyers and sellers constantly search for ways to create value, however this has not occurred naturally in all areas of the economy markets are missing for some goods, including the environment. In such cases, transaction costs linked to property rights, asymmetric...

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A Herculean Task? Economics, Politics, and Realigning Government in the Case of U.S. Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellites

MacAuley, Molly K. - 2004

In 1994 one of the most radical institutional restructurings in the U.S. government's provision of critical weather information took place after eight unsuccessful attempts. A presidential decision directive merged weather data collection by satellites operated by the Department of Defense for...

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Do Commodity Prices and Food Production Affect the Volume of United States Foreign Food Aid?

Wiltsee, Jim - 2009

The main focus of this paper is to analyze whether a country-specific commodity price index and a food production index have strong explanatory power on determining the volume of United States foreign food aid flows to low-income countries. The study uses panel data for seventy-six countries...

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The British North Sea: The Importance Of And Factors Affecting Tax Revenue From Oil Production

Hill, Mark T 1974- - 2003

The oil industry is the richest and most influential industry in the world. The industry has moved the fates of nations. Oil is required to fight wars and exert power, and the restriction of this energy source is paramount to the restriction of movement, control, and in the end, power....

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Trade Union bargaining horizons in comparative perspective: the effects of encompassing organization, unemployment and the monetary regime on wage-pushfulness

Kittel, B.E.A. - 2000

Before wage-pushfulness can be empirically related to the organizational structure of trade unions, the framework conditions that determine their perceived set of options must be adequately conceptualized. Although rising union density tends to increase wage pressure, the greater...

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