BACKGROUND Under the National Rural Health Mission, the current emphasis is on achieving universal institutional births through incentive schemes as part of reforms related to childbirth in India. There has been rapid progress in achieving this goal. To understand the choices made as well as practices and perceptions related to childbirth amongst tribal women in Gujarat and how these have been ...

BACKGROUND The EU FP6 HENVINET project reviewed the potential relevance of a focus on climate change related health effects for climate change policies at the city region level. This was undertaken by means of a workshop with both scientists, city representatives from several EU-countries, representatives of EU city networks and EU-experts. In this paper we introduce some important health relat...

Negotiations in the real world have many features which tend to be ignored in policy modeling. They are often multilateral, involving many negotiating parties with preferences over outcomes that can differ substantially. They are also often multidimensional, in the sense that several policies are negotiated over simultaneously. Trade negotiations are a prime example, as are negotiations over en...

This paper is a reflection of the author’s views on recent research developments at the interface of entrepreneurship and regional economic development and growth. The paper begins with an overview of the recent rise of interest in entrepreneurship in general and, in particular, with respect to its influence on regional economic growth and development. Following an introduction the formation an...

The difficulty of accounting for expectational effects in macro-economic models is well known. The standard procedure in dealing with this problem in the construction of large-scale macro-econometric models is to use current and lagged values as “proxies” for expected future values. An alternative procedure is to assume that expectations are rational. Although the assumption of rational expecta...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to focus on the governance aspects of China’s environmental policy making and the conditions for meaningful public participation in sustainable urbanization policy making. China is facing a big urbanization challenge. Rapid economic growth and inefficient use of natural resources lead to excessive pollution and rapid depletion of China’s natural resourc...

For two decades governments around the world have put economic issues at the top of their policy agendas. As a result the search for economic growth has become our holy grail in the final decades of this millennium. The assumption has been that if it's good for the economy then it must be good for the rest of society. Ironically, in public health policy in recent years there has been an increas...

The Iratapuru Sustainable Development Reserve is mainly exploited by the community of the São Francisco village. Due to its efforts to organize its members around a production co-operative and to improve their living standard, but also as a result of massive funding from local and international institutions, this community has become a symbol for the actions of sustainable development undertake...

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 21 Number 2 2006 © Asia Pacific Press Granger causality tests confirm the results from the bounds-testing approach of the long-run relationships between Fiji’s economic growth and fiscal and monetary policies and exports. Government expenditure, representing fiscal policy, is assessed to have a greater impact than monetary policy and exports on Fiji’s gross dome...

PREFACE THE following pages owe their origin to a short course of lectures on Theories of Economic Policy which I delivered at the London School of Economics in 1939. The main views which they contain were all set forth in the two lectures there devoted to the Classical system. But the limitations of time within which I had to work left me dissatisfied with my treatment andl contemplated a furt...