Il mercato dei farmaci (come, più in generale, quello delle prestazioni sanitarie) presenta tutti gli elementi economici che suggeriscono l'applicazione di schemi regolatori: dalla differenza tra soggetti finanziatori e soggetti beneficiari (indispensabile a mantenere l'accesso universale alle...

This paper reviews gender budgeting efforts in Asia. The countries in the region have achieved mixed success in improving gender equality. Gender budgeting is ideally a fiscal innovation that translates gender-related goals into budgetary commitments and can help countries to achieve the...

A large and growing literature shows that decision-makers are more likely to select options presented to them as the default. We study the optimal choice of defaults. Our model assumes that decision-makers behave as if there is some cost to selecting any option that is not the default. These...

The world’s financial and economic crisis has taken a toll on children and poor households. High food and commodity prices, unemployment and austerity measures have aggravated persistent inequalities and contributed to a substantial rise in hunger and social tensions. Now, more than ever,...

Each year, more than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them. Many cities have recently implemented policies aimed at reducing the number of evictions, motivated by research showing strong associations between being evicted and subsequent adverse economic outcomes....

This paper is part of a five-country study. It applies an objective indicators' approach to identify the links between access to justice and poverty and the governance-related factors blocking the access to justice among the poorest segments of the population, by using case study analysis

Interventions to create an order either from scratch or within an existing situation so as to resolve the disorders either prevailing or accentuating, overrides the virtues associated with the latter and results into more inequitable and non-soluble conditions over a period of time. It is...

Functioning of the city: "A human habitat consists of a community which is characterized by a population territorially organized where individual units are living together in a relationship of mutual interdependence". The complexity that has been earlier referred to, responds to the diverse...

The complexity of functioning of the contemporary city does leaves behind certain aspects unregistered in the network of urban life. Millions of Indians are unemployed or underemployed. Ingenuity and tenacity are the hallmarks of urban workers, who carry out a remarkable multitude of tasks and...

I review the complex welare economic issues that arise in environmental decision-making over very long periods of time, as in the case of climate change, biodiversity loss and nuclear waste disposal. I also consider the questions that have to be resolved in choosing a discount rate to apply to...