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The Coronavirus and Lessons for Preparedness
Hendrickson, Joshua R. - 2020
In the midst of a pandemic, the most pressing issues are those of containment and mitigation—both in terms of the virus itself and the economic costs. However, it is also in the midst of a pandemic that one can learn important lessons about preparedness for possible future pandemics.The...
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Running ahead of Pandemics : Achieving In-Advance Antiviral Drugs
Pannu, Jassi - 2020
Three months into the COVID-19 outbreak caused by a novel strain of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the world is still in search of an effective therapeutic drug. Experimental drugs developed for other infections, such as Gilead's remdesivir, have been repurposed with unclear success. A recent small...
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Impact of economic freedom on corruption revisited in ASEAN countries : a Bayesian hierarchical mixed-effects analysis
Nguyen Ngoc Thach; Bui Hoang Ngoc - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 1/3, pp. 1-16
Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on developed and developing groups, while the Association...
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Determinants of prepaid systems of healthcare financing : a worldwide country-level perspective
Leiter, Andrea M.; Theurl, Engelbert - 2019
In this paper we examine determinants of prepaid modes of health care financing in a worldwide cross …-country perspective. We use three different indicators to capture the role of prepaid modes in health care financing: (i) the share of … total prepaid financing as percent of total current health expenditures, (ii) the share of voluntary prepaid financing as …
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Healthcare Spending : The Role of Healthcare Institutions from an International Perspective
Titeca, Hannes - 2016
Healthcare systems differ greatly across the world, however, it appears that the extent of public insurance (publicly/government funded healthcare) is the only institutional characteristic that plays a significant role in accounting for the large disparities in total healthcare spending. Other...
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Impact of Economic Freedom on Corruption Revisited in ASEAN Countries : A Bayesian Hierarchical Mixed-Effects Analysis
Nguyen Ngoc, Thach; Ngoc, Bui Hoang - 2022
Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on developed and developing groups, while Association of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242286
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
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Intellectual Property Rights and Stem Cell Research : Who Owns the Medical Breakthroughs?
O'Connor, Seán M. - 2013
The 2004 election year provided many focus points for those interested in stem cell research and its potential outcomes. California's Proposition 71, in particular, has arguably led the way to a new era of state and local public funding of stem cell research. This article does not address the...
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Has the fall in oil prices shifted the healthcare spending burden from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' governments onto private spending?
Al Mustanyir, Salem - In: Cogent business & management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
The OPEC countries rely on oil to fund their budgets, similar to many countries worldwide. However, the fall in oil prices in 2008 and 2014 put significant strain on their public finances, including healthcare finances. This study examines the effect of the fall in oil prices on OPEC countries'...
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From oil reliance to financial resilience : have economic sanctions made OPEC countries’ healthcare financing independent from oil?
Al Mustanyir, Salem - In: Cogent business & management 11 (2024) 1, pp. 1-12
sanctions could have adverse consequences for government financing, including healthcare. This study investigates whether … economic sanctions have shifted governments’ healthcare financing from oil dependence. Quantitative data covering 2000 to 2020 … government healthcare financing from oil in Libya, Iraq, and Iran, evident in the absence of a response to changes in their …
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