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SETTING: In the Cape Town suburbs of Ravensmead and Uitsig, tuberculosis has reached epidemic levels, with notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is traditionally believed that tuberculosis transmission takes...
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This paper presents an overview of recent U.S. fiscal developments and discusses possible implications of the sharp turn around in the government’s fiscal position. Against this back ground, it also reviews key policy challenges that will need to be addressed to cope with the mounting...
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This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need in situations where they must address issues concerning health sector policy and when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to...
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With much healthcare publicly funded, Hong Kong's rapidly aging population will significant raise fiscal pressure over coming decades. We ask what the implications are of meeting these costs by public funding, or private funding voluntarily or through mandates. Our simulations suggest that...
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This Joint Staff Advisory Note focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Albania. The note analyzes the National Strategy for Development and Integration (NSDI) program, which represents a significant improvement in process over the previous PRSP. The note discusses that the...
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Two main topics are analysed in this paper: a crowding model for an urban destination is tested by the use of a binary … logistic model in order to identify the variables influencing crowding perception; and the inherent negativity of the crowding … variables have a larger effect on the perception of crowding than use-level. Furthermore, the relationship between crowding and …
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model in order to offer a monetary valuation of tourist crowding in urban public space. A resident survey was carried out in … to avoid unfavourable crowding situations can be assessed. Their willingness to pay in order to increase the use levels … €11.06 a year. While tourism is only partly responsible for these crowding levels, the results demonstrate that the social …
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, reported higher crowding perceptions. A significant proportion of them try to avoid these crowds, relying on behavioral coping …, such as crowding perceptions, seems to be useful for sustainable urban green space management and city planning. …
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a person or group, in comparison with others in similar situations. The crowding out effect was first formulated by … may explain the crowding out effect. In this article we analyzed the level of segregation in the Romanian labor market … starting from the workers professional status and their distribution by branch from 2003 to 2008. Crowding out effect was …
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