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Cluster policy as a development strategy: Case studies from the Middle East and North Africa
Benner, Maximilian - 2012
presents case studies from Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294480
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Oil and the Eruption of the Algerian Civil War: A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance
Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010
Algeria's intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely against each other … conditions directly linked to the resource sector with the general conflict-fueling conditions diagnosed in Algeria. It takes … but also enhances our understanding of the eruption of violence in Algeria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275960
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Fuel for Conflict or Balm for Peace? Assessing the Effects of Hydrocarbons on Peace Efforts in Algeria
Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010
This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post-conflict Algeria. While the bloody years of the 1990s now …-building efforts in Algeria and identify ways of improving these measures. The resources, which are mainly controlled by the central …-building will only lead to sustainable results when embedded in full-fledged reforms of Algeria's entire economic and political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275990
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The Effectiveness of Health Screening
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, … - 2012
Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional variations in the intensity of exposure to supply-determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294861
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The rise in obesity across the Atlantic: an economic perspective
Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - 2008
We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268706
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Understanding the economic consequences of shifting trends in population health
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana; Lakdawalla, Darius; … - 2009
The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden - but these savings may be offset by worsening...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269708
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Savings after retirement
French, Eric; Jones, John Bailey; McGee, Rory - 2022
Retired households, especially those with high lifetime income, decumulate their wealth very slowly, and many die leaving large estates. The three leading explanations for the 'retirement savings puzzle' are the desire to insure against uncertain lifespans and medical expenses, the desire to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480367
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Pension and medicost reform - averting the demoghaphic/fiscal demise
Kotlikoff, Laurence - In: CESifo Forum 06 (2005) 4, pp. 37-41
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695823
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Health Accounts and Other Welfare Accounts
Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Mike; … - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 3, pp. 9-14
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696438
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The effectiveness of health screening
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, … - 2012
Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional variations in the intensity of exposure to supply-determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282444