Duty Drawbacks, Competitiveness, and Growth: Are Duty Drawbacks Worth the Hassle?

Tele-rehabilitation the benefits and drawbacks

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted negatively on our society and resulted in numerous deaths. It had an effect on every facet of health-care delivery. Rules, regulations, and payment policies were changed to allow extensive use of telecommunications technology in lieu of in-person clinical visits to protect health care personnel and patients throughout the country from the risk of disease trans...

The Drawbacks of Electoral Competition

We examine the effect of the number of candidates and the impact of ideology on the efficiency of the electoral process. We show that the tendency to focus on policies that provide particularistic benefits increases with the number of candidates to the expense of policies that benefit the population at large. Thus, the efficiency of policies provided in an electoral equilibrium worsens when the...

Drawbacks of the current practice

tau.amegroups.com © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Dr. Cunha-Filho, in his commentary on the practice recommendations by Agarwal et al. (1), described the current status of sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF) testing. He discussed the pitfalls of the current practice in using intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in bypassing male factors on one hand, while elaborating on...

The benefits and drawbacks of biosimilars.

The Case for Liberalization and Some Drawbacks

Comments from Patrick Honohan are gratefully acknowledged. Still, the findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent.