Coordinated Community-Based Hoarding Interventions: Evidence of Case Management Practices

Evidence-Based Practices in Interventions for Children and Youth

Evidence-based practices (EPBs) are the basis upon which teachers and other service providers are required to design educational program for learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). As part of the work with the National Professional Development Center on ASD (NPDC), a process was developed for reviewing the research literature and criteria were established for identifying EBPs. In their r...

Do Community-Based Interventions Improve Risk Sharing? Evidence from Malawi

We study whether community based interventions improve risk sharing in rural Malawi. We focus on improvements in risk sharing arising as a result of design features of these interventions. We use a 2 year panel dataset collected within a cluster randomised trial to investigate whether two community based interventions a participatory women’s group intervention and a home-based infant feeding in...

Case studies of Community - Based Wildlife Management

Do Management and Leadership Practices in the Context of Decentralisation Influence Performance of Community Health Fund? Evidence From Iramba and Iringa Districts in Tanzania

Background In early 1990s, Tanzania like other African countries, adopted health sector reform (HSR). The most strongly held centralisation system that informed the nature of services provision including health was, thus, disintegrated giving rise to decentralisation system. It was within the realm of HSR process, user fees were introduced in the health sector. Along with user fees, various typ...

Evidence on Asset Sales and Income Management: Case of Iran

This study empirically examines whether managers manipulate reported income through the timing of sales of long-lived assets and investments. Several empirical implications of the income-smoothing and debt-equity hypothesis in the context of asset sales were tested. The findings are consistent with the timing of asset sales by managers so that the recognized accounting income from these sales s...