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Valuing the benefit of varicella vaccination: comparison of willingness to pay and quality-adjusted life-years
Brisson, M.; Edmunds, J. - Department of Economics, City University - 2004
Vaccination is different from most health interventions because it is preventative, it protects against infectious … given to children from whom it is very difficult to elicit preferences. Because of its unique characteristics, vaccination … vaccination and the Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALY) lost due to chickenpox using Contingent Valuation (CV), Standard Gamble and …
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Initiatives for earthquake disaster risk management in the Kathmandu Valley
Dixit, Amod; Yatabe, Ryuichi; Dahal, Ranjan; Bhandary, Netra - In: Natural Hazards 69 (2013) 1, pp. 631-654
Situated over the Himalayan tectonic zone, Kathmandu Valley as a lake in geological past has a long history of destructive earthquakes. In recent years, the earthquake risk of the valley has significantly increased due mainly to uncontrolled development, poor construction practices with no...
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The Trade-Off Between Child Labor and Schooling: Influence of Social Labeling NGOs in Nepal
Chakrabarty, Sayan; Grote, Ulrike; Lüchters, Guido - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Does the labeling of products which have been produced without any child laborers contribute to increased welfare of children? This paper presents some results of a survey in Nepal conducted to analyze which factors determine the probability of a child to work, and to examine the influence of...
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A multivariate econometric approach for domestic water demand modeling: An application to Kathmandu, Nepal
Babel, M.; Gupta, A.; Pradhan, P. - In: Water Resources Management 21 (2007) 3, pp. 573-589
Domestic water use/demand is a complex function of socio-economic characteristics, climatic factors and public water policies and strategies. This study therefore develops a model based on the multivariate econometric approach which considers these parameters to forecast and manage the domestic...
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Education and the Journey to the Core: Path-dependence or Leapfrogging?
Mehta, Aashish; Felipe, Jesus - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2014
We study changes in 130 countries’ indices of revealed comparative advantage for 1,240 products between 1995 and 2010, to answer: (i) whether export diversification is path-dependent, and whether it is more difficult to diversify into more sophisticated products; and (ii) whether education...
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Small towns as centres of rural micro-regions
Antonín, Vaishar; Jana, Zapletalová - In: European Countryside 1 (2009) 2, pp. 70-81
Small towns ensure services on the basic urban level, jobs, social contacts, occasions to travel outside the micro-region, services of the state administration and sometimes also an identity of the micro-region. Mass commuting from villages to small towns is usual for Czechia for a long time....
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Policy Options to Durably Resolve Euro Area Imbalances
Guillemette, Yvan; Turner, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
balances required in the euro area periphery to bring structural current account balances to levels compatible with sustainable …
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Cyprus and Europe: Geo-economics of a Relationship or Putting the ¡°Periphery¡± into Context
Arisoy, Alper - In: Research in World Economy 5 (2014) 2, pp. 198-207
, through which this relationship has evolved. Accordingly, the main questions to be addressed are as follows: is the core-periphery …? Drawing upon some basic concepts such as core-periphery dichotomy, insularity, isolation and connectivity, the main argument …, has also started to shift. The island has turned into a periphery of this new core. However, this shift brought about also …
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Cyclical Development of Empires - an Application of Krugman's Theory
Eszterhai, Viktor - In: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - … 5 (2007) 1, pp. 48-55
The study of empires' development has prided itself on great traditions in historical sciences. However, understanding the development courses meets difficulties if the geographical environment is disregarded. In my opinion, with the help of studying the geographical environment and also...
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Small towns as centres of rural micro-regions
Vaishar Antonín; Zapletalová Jana - In: European Countryside 1 (2009) 2, pp. 70-81
Small towns ensure services on the basic urban level, jobs, social contacts, occasions to travel outside the micro-region, services of the state administration and sometimes also an identity of the micro-region. Mass commuting from villages to small towns is usual for Czechia for a long time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010534468