Taxes to support old age income systems, endless political discussions, the media, and direct observation all remind us that our nation grows older. The implications for organizations in both the private and public sectors of this aging are profound. Time for adapting to the new realities remains, but the degrees of freedom available for the remodeling lessen with each passing year. Two graphs,...

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OBJECTIVES To highlight the initial management approach for Lung Cancer in a UK Hospital with the aim of translating the principles of such methodology to a developing country, such as Pakistan. METHODS A descriptive observational study was carried out at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, UK. The investigator (IMB) observed the Lung Cancer Service, attending the weekly 'New patients Clinic', 'Resul...

This technical paper uses the multi-country data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine the institutions and levels of social protection for unemployment, disability, old age, and social assistance more generally, in a set of eight rich nations over the 1985-1995 period. These nations include those with expansive safety nets (e.g., Canada, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingd...

Today, agriculture remains the most distorted sector of the world economy. Therefore, agricultural liberalization in the Doha negotiations is rightly the top priority. But the public-policy discourse on the subject remains fogged by a number of fallacies. These fallacies probably originated with the leadership of the World Bank but have now been embraced by the IMF, OECD, Oxfam and the leading ...

This paper presents data and analysis on the antipoverty effectiveness of safety nets in eight rich nations using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). We find that national safety nets are quite varied and that the most expensive ones (in terms of budgetary cost) are also the most effective. The paper concludes with some suggestions for the construction of effective safety nets in devel...

Since its introduction in the mid-1990s, the benefits of antiretroviral therapy for the management of HIV disease have been well established [1,2]. New antiretroviral regimens have proved to be effective in decreasing HIV plasma viral load, improving CD4 cell counts, and have substantially altered the natural history of HIV infection [3,4]. As a result, substantial improvements in HIV-related m...

In the past decade banks invested heavily in internet technology so as to engage in e-business and ecommerce activities. However, this development exposed banks to threats, such as online fraud. Consequently, there was a need to adopt security measures and controls to mitigate such threats. Banks in developed countries have developed a level of ‘best practice’ to reduce such online threats. The...