The Politics of Subsidies

Retooling tax subsidies for health coverage: old ideas, new politics.

Industrial Subsidies and the Politics of World Trade : The Case of the Boeing 7 e 7

This paper offers a critical commentary on the launch process for a large commercial aircraft (LCA). Using the Boeing 7e7 as an example, we argue that the contemporary launch process bears little resemblance to previous practices. Specifically, the launch process involves both domestic and foreign subsidies because US production is now organized under a ‘systems integration’ basis. Under system...

The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy

Let us start with an example of health policy analysis in action. Within that category of countries loosely known as ‘the West’, quite basic differences exist in attitudes to health policy and also actual health policy. Comparing the US with mainland Europe and indeed Canada, for example, one perceives a difference in attitude on the part of the majority towards collectivism and individualism i...

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...

Analyzing the Effect of the Water Reduce Subsidies on GDP

The objective of this work is to analyze the effects of decrease in water subsidies (increase in the price of the water) on various economic sectors in order to promote the conservation of this resource based on the actual price of water. But over the past decades, various subsidizing methods hold the cost of water down. On the other hand, the indiscriminate use of these resources led the gover...