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Vietnam: Learning from Smart Reforms on the Road to Universal Health Coverage
Barroy, Helene; Jarawan, Eva; Bales, Sarah - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Universal Health Coverage is a powerful framework for a nation aiming to protect their population against health risks. However, countries face multiple challenges in implementing, achieving and sustaining UHC strategies. Sharing and learning from diverse country experiences may enable to foster...
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Health in All Policies as a Strategic Policy Response to NCDs
Lin, Vivian; Jones, Catherine; Wang, Shiyong; Barbd, Enis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education,...
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Accounting for Market Distortions in an Integrated Investment Appraisal Framework
Bagzibagli, Kemal; Jenkins, Glenn P.; Semwaga, Octave - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2014
Public investments are key policy instruments used by governments in pursuing their overall development goals and strategies. Given the limited resources available to an economy, the chosen projects should fit into the overall development strategy, which usually concerns many stakeholder groups....
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ECONOMIC COST OF FOREIGN FINANCING
Jenkins, Glenn; Kuo, Chun-Yan - Economics Department, Queen's University - 1999
The conventional treatment by the economic appraisal of investments has been to disregard the particular terms of foreign financing as a benefit or cost. This approach is being called into question as the private provision of public services has become dominated by foreign investors and...
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Economic Evaluation of Continuing Care Interventions in the Treatment of Substance Abuse
Popovici, Ioana; French, Michael T.; McKay, James R. - In: Evaluation Review 32 (2008) 6, pp. 547-568
makers to justify the allocation of scarce resources to continuing care interventions. The adoption of cost …
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Framing vulnerability, risk and societal responses: the MOVE framework
Birkmann, J.; Cardona, O.; Carreño, M.; Barbat, A.; … - In: Natural Hazards 67 (2013) 2, pp. 193-211
The paper deals with the development of a general as well as integrative and holistic framework to systematize and assess vulnerability, risk and adaptation. The framework is a thinking tool meant as a heuristic that outlines key factors and different dimensions that need to be addressed when...
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Interventions and inflation expectations in an inflation targeting economy
Pincheira, Pablo - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2013
In this paper we explore the role that exchange rate interventions may play in determining inflation expectations in … forecasters carried out by the Central Bank of Chile. We consider two episodes of preannounced central bank interventions during …
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Education and Youth Crime: a Review of the Empirical Literature
Rud, I; Van Klaveren, C.; Groot; W.; Brink, Maassen van den - Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research - 2013
is different than the nature of adult crime. We analyze studies that evaluate childhood and adolescence interventions and …
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Interventions for effectively leading in a virtual setting
Mitchell, Alanah - In: Business Horizons 55 (2012) 5, pp. 431-439
At least a decade ago, researchers recognized the importance of leaders being able to effectively execute interventions … interventions and how they can be technology driven or administered. Advances in technology-driven interventions can have a … substantial impact on virtual project management and online education. In this article, we explore the role of interventions in …
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The Signalling Channel of Central Bank Interventions: Modelling the Yen/US Dollar Exchange Rate
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael; Glanemann, Nicole - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
This paper presents a theoretical framework analysing the signalling channel of exchange rate interventions as an … theoretical premise of the model is that interventions convey signals that communicate information about the exchange rate … objectives of central bank. The model is used to analyse the impact of Japanese FX interventions during the period 1999 -2011 on …
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