Industrial Sector Input Demand Responsiveness and Policy Interventions

Intra Sector Policy Interventions for Improvement of Iranian Health Financing System

Background and purpose: To determine an appropriate financial model for the health system of Iran, several studies have been conducted. But it seems that these studies were not comprehensive and further investigation is required. So to design a valid and enforceable mechanism, the study of policy interventions will be considered through consensus of all stakeholders. This investigation was done...

Investment in Housing Sector, an Input- Approach

The Housing sector can be considered both the exchange of intermediate goods and the investment goods for the manufacturing sectors. The housing sector is the buyer of intermediate goods such as brick, cement, iron etc from one side, and uses the investment goods such as crane etc from other side. Furthermore, it uses the labour force. Thus, the housing sector has three types of buying which in...

The Compatibility of Trade Policy with Domestic Policy Interventions Affecting the Grain Sector in Malawi

Agricultural Sector and Industrial Agglomeration∗

In many developing countries, agriculture hires at least as many workers as manufacturing industries. We investigate an economic geography model in which agricultural goods are costly to transport and in which manufactures hire labor from the local agricultural sector as unskilled labor. Our conclusions show that the parameters in the agricultural sector are crucial to determine the spatial con...

Aggregate Demand, Productivity, and ‘‘Disguised Unemployment’’ in the Chinese Industrial Sector

— Many economists argue that the Chinese state and collectively owned enterprises are fundamentally inefficient and better economic performance requires large-scale layoff of the state and the collective sector workers. This paper argues that the productivity of state and collectively owned enterprises depends on the level of aggregated demand. If the government undertakes expansionary policies...