Financing first home ownership: modelling policy impacts at market and individual levels

Hospital financing through the capital market; Explain the underlying factors in financing policy and its ordering

Background: Hospital, as the largest and most important health system unit, has the highest costs. Governments cannot finance all of the costs of this sector, so reforms are inevitable. In this regard, researchers have explained the underlying factors in financing policy and its commanding. Materials & Methods: This study is a descriptive study done by qualitatively and quantitatively method i...

Productivity Commission Inquiry on First Home Ownership

Productivity Commission Inquiry on First Home Ownership

1. Background In Australia, local government is established under State/Territory legislation and its structures, powers and functions are determined by that legislation. In all jurisdictions in the last 10-15 years, the relevant legislation creating and regulating local government has been reviewed and significantly amended or replaced with new legislation that gives local councils greater gen...

Renewable energy investment: Policy and market impacts

The liberalization of electricity markets in recent years has enhanced competition among powergenerating firms facing uncertain decisions of competitors and thus uncertain prices. At the same time, promoting renewable energy has been a key ingredient in energy policy seeking to de-carbonize the energy mix. Public incentives for companies to invest in renewable technologies range from feed-in ta...

Policy and financing in family medicine and the medical home.

This month we have several articles about policy and financing related to family medicine and the medical home. Setting the stage, Tsai et al present the primary care outcomes of the Taiwanese universal health care system, an interesting juxtaposition to health care reform discussions in the United States. Specifically, the authors discuss the negative impact of the unrestricted access to speci...