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On Hospital Competition: Quality, Efficiency, and Ownership
Herr, Annika - 2009
) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …
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AMMA 2005 Dakar International Conference to be Held November 28-December 2, 2005
Lamb, Peter - 2008
Consistent with the original proposal (dated April 14, 2005), the grant supported the participation in the above conference of a number of West African meteorologists, the majority of whom will be supporting the ARM Mobile Facility deployment in Niamey in various ways during 2006.The following...
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Schooling Returns for Wage Earners in Burkina Faso: Evidence from the 1994 and 1998 National Surveys
Kazianga, Harounan - 2004
This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso. Mincer earning regressions are fitted to wage data for women and men, and for public and private sector workers. The main results indicate that rates of return rise by level of...
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Measuring the Burden of Disease, the Structure of Income, and Returns to Education in Rural West Africa
Würthwein, Ralph - 2002
Die vorliegende Dissertation will einen Beitrag zur Messung von Krankheitsbelastung, Einkommensstruktur und … Epidemiology und Health Economics) veröffentlicht, nachdem sie zuvor in der Diskussionsschriftenreihe des SONDERFORSCHUNGSBEREICHS … Nouna (Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna, CRSN), das die Haushaltserhebung Nouna Health District Household Survey (NHDHS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476242
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Macroeconomic Determinants of the Happiness of the Poor: A Case Study of Pakistan
Shahbaz, Muhamm; Aamir, Naveed - 2008
that this is qualitative and subjective phenomena are not easily captured by measurement. In the present endeavour, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468683
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Internationalit?t der Unternehmung - Aktueller Forschungsstand, Analyse und Konzeptualisierung
Fischer, Laura Denise - 2006
The research field of (measurement) concepts depicting the degree of multinationality of a firm is vast and complex … multinationality is, however, a precondition for the validity of measurement concepts. Hence, the development of a well … framework as well as recommendations for the construction of measurement concepts of firm multinationality are identified and …
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Forecasting Field Defect Rates Using a Combined Time-based and Metrics-based Approach: a Case Study of OpenBSD
Luo Li, Paul; Herbsleb, James; Shaw, Mary - 2005
Open source software systems are critical infrastructure for many applications; however, little has been precisely measured about their quality. Forecasting the field defect-occurrence rate over the entire lifespan of a release before deployment for open source software systems may enable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440981
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A retrospective view of the South African excellence model
Williams, June C. - 2008
, however, performance measurement systems ofworld-class organisations are tailored to drive manufacturing and service …
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