The main objective of this paper is to analyze trade flows and tariff policies of health products. Compared to previous … studies, we not only focus on medicines, but on a large set of products that enter the public health space and can be … identified in the common trade classification. The first contribution is thus to construct three groups of health products based …

Innovative financing for global health may stimulate new waves of entrepreneurial activity. Global policies have …

, are growing, and are related to several economic, social and health sector variables. Global efforts to deal with this …

Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and … national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because … health justice. Aim: To study why global health inequalities are morally troubling, why efforts to reduce them are morally …

systematic performance and efficiency differentials between National Oil Companies (NOCs) and privately-owned International Oil … an indication of firm efficiency. Because NOCs also significantly underperform the private sector in terms of output … efficiency and profitability, this paper nevertheless suggests that a political preference for State Oil usually comes at an …

to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth into technical efficiency changes (catching up) and technological … separately estimate technical efficiency change, which is a component of TFP growth, and we find that, in general, the estimated … technical efficiency of the high-performing East Asian economies was not out of line with the rest of the world …