Is Social Protection a Luxury Good?

Draft — Comments appreciated Survival is a Luxury Good: The Increasing Value of a Statistical Life

The value of changes in mortality risk is conventionally estimated by the marginal rate of substitution between income and mortality risk—the value per statistical life (VSL). Previous estimates of the income elasticity of VSL, obtained from meta-analysis of compensating-wagedifferential studies and from contingent valuation, are typically less than one, often 0.3 to 0.5. We present new estimat...

When is Trade Protection Good for Growth ?

The empirical relationship between trade protection and economic growth is surprisingly fragile, as shown in a number of other papers. After demonstrating this empirical sensitivity, we address one possible explanation for these findings: that the relationship is nonlinear. Following the endogenous growth literature, we test for the possibility that the relationship between trade barriers and g...

How Different Is New Luxury From Old Luxury ?

Breastfeeding in the Hospital is a Good Start to Life

در ماه مارس ۱۹۹۲ از طریق یونیسف و سازمان بهداشت جهانی طرح ابتکاری بیمارستان دوستدار کودک (Baby friendly hospital)، به منظور ترویج تغذیه با شیر مادر ، راه اندازی شد. در این بیمارستانها تدابیری جهت بالا بودن سطح سلامت و بهبود وضعیت نوزادان تازه متولد شده اتخاذ گردید. اولین متمم این طرح ابتکاری، تشویق جهت تغذیه نوزادان با شیر مادر بود که برای نشان دادن این موضوع، نظامنامه بین المللی از طرف WHO به ...

management is a luxury , think again . treating technology as a luxury ? 10 necessary

But are hospitals actually acquiring and using the technology that allows them to achieve significantly better financial outcomes? There are techniques and software that every hospital—regardless of size, location, tax status, or payer mix—should acquire and use. And this technology is commercially available today; it is not science fiction. The August 2004 issue of hfm included an article I wr...