How Co-Payment Mechanism Has Changed Patients’ Perception Towards Otc-Type Products?

Responding to Changing Family Organization How Has Policy Responded? How Has Family Organization Changed?

parent, generally their mother. Divorce rates rose dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s and have remained high. At the same time, more individuals are waiting to older ages to marry, or are not marrying at all, thus increasing the period during which women are at risk of a nonmarital birth. By the late 1990s, 26 percent of white children, 41 percent of Hispanic children, and 69 percent of black ...

Tuberculosis control: how the world has changed since 1990.

In 1990 the Commission on Health Research for Development stated that ‘‘The magnitude of the tuberculosis problem is matched only by its relative neglect by the international community.’’ (1) A decade later, in March 2000, ministers of health and finance from the 20 countries that have 80% of the world’s tuberculosis cases met in Amsterdam and issued the Amsterdam Declaration. This stated that ...

How Much Has the Supreme Court Changed Patent Law

Technology for learning: how it has changed education

As a result of the digital revolution we have experienced in the last 25 years, a range of new teaching and learning formats is available, from e-modules, sophisticated simulations and serious games, to online collaborative learning. In this special issue, we cover several of these promising new formats of technology-enhanced learning (or e-learning or online learning), referring to the use of ...

How the Rational Expectations Revolution Has Changed Macroeconomic Policy Research

I am grateful to Jacques Dreze for helpful comments on an earlier draft.