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Global Program for Avian Influenza Control and Human Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Project Accomplishments
Jonas, Olga; Warford, Lucas - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This report reviews some of the accomplishments of the Global Program for Avian Influenza Control and Human Pandemic Preparedness and Response (GPAI). This multisectoral program comprised 72 projects in 60 developing countries in all regions and received $1.3 billion in financing from the World...
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Vaccination Externalities
Boulier, Bryan; Datta, Tejwant; Goldfarb, Robert - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1, pp. 1487-1487
Vaccination provides indirect benefits to the unvaccinated. Despite its important policy implications, there is little …. Moreover, its magnitude can be remarkably large. In particular, the marginal externality of a vaccination can be greater than …
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Republic of Uzbekistan; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The Welfare Improvement Strategy (WIS) of Uzbekistan has the objective of improving living standards of its people with the help of strong economic policies for all priority areas of development. The report reviews economic and social policies and assesses the living standards of its people. It...
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A Hypothesis Test for the End of a Common Source Outbreak
Brookmeyer, Ron; You, Xiaojun - Berkeley Electronic Press - 2004
The objective of this paper is to develop a hypothesis testing procedure to determine whether a common source outbreak has ended. We do not assume that the calendar date of exposure to the pathogen is known. We assume an underlying parametric model for the incubation period distribution of a...
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Information and Communication Technologies for Health Systems Strengthening
Otto, Kate; Shekar, Meera; Herbst, Christopher H.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...
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Designing a Firm's Coordinated Manufacturing and Supply Decisions with Short Product Life Cycles
Parlar, Mahmut; Weng, Z. Kevin - In: Management Science 43 (1997) 10, pp. 1329-1344
In this paper we consider a problem of joint coordination between a firm's manufacturing and supply departments. The … coordination prevails, both departments' decisions are jointly made; otherwise, decisions are made independently without an … substantially higher cost. Our analysis yields insightful results to such a coordination problem between the two departments. We …
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Existence of Coordinating Transshipment Prices in a Two-Location Inventory Model
Hu, Xinxin; Duenyas, Izak; Kapuscinski, Roman - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 8, pp. 1289-1302
We consider a two-location production/inventory model where each location makes production decisions and is subject to uncertain capacity. Each location optimizes its own profits. Transshipment (at a cost) is allowed from one location to another. We focus on the question of whether one can...
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Coordinating Investment, Production, and Subcontracting
Mieghem, Jan A. Van - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 7, pp. 954-971
We value the option of subcontracting to improve financial performance and system coordination by analyzing a …
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Capacity Investments in Supply Chains: Sharing the Gain Rather Than Sharing the Pain
Tomlin, Brian - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 5 (2003) 4, pp. 317-333
In this paper, we investigate price-only contracts in supply chain capacity procurement games. For a two-party supply chain, comprising a manufacturer and a supplier that both invest in capacity, we prove the existence of a class of coordinating price-only contracts that arbitrarily allocate the...
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Coordination of information sharing in a supply chain
Zhang, Juliang; Chen, Jian - In: International Journal of Production Economics 143 (2013) 1, pp. 178-187
In this paper, we study information sharing in a supply chain consisting of one supplier and one retailer, in which both the supplier and the retailer possess partial information on the demand. Under the single price contract, we show that whether a firm reveals its private information depends...
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