Despite some empirical evidence to the contrary, government subsidies to higher education are usually presumed to be inequitable because college-educated workers earn more than less educated workers. Using a simple model of educational choice with endogenous wages and two worker types, I obtain strong results concerning this conflict between effi ciency and equity —namely that equity and effi c...

The Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm) was conceived as a global market-based mechanism to increase access to effective malaria treatment and prolong effectiveness of artemisinin. Although results from a pilot implementation suggested that the subsidy was effective in increasing access to high-quality artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs), the Global Fund has converted AMFm int...

Remanufactured products offer better environmental benefits, and governments encourage manufacturers to remanufacture through various subsidy policies. This practice has shown that, in addition to product sales, remanufactured product can also achieve its value through social donation. Based on the remanufactured product value realization approaches, governments provide two kinds of incentive p...

Environmental concerns are currently a major issue in the maritime transportation industry. A practical approach to implementing green is adopt liquefied natural gas (LNG) as marine fuel. Government subsidies would efficiently stimulate adoption of LNG However, question how determine appropriate amount has not yet been investigated depth. In this paper, trilevel programming model proposed addre...

the study examines the effects of awareness of fertilizer subsidy on the yield of crops among rural farmers in ghana. random sampling was used to select six communities and 10 households per community. they include bawku, navrongo, tolon kumbungu and walewale from the northern part and ejura and atebubu in the southern part of ghana. primary data were collected from the sampled household by adm...

This paper analyzes the responses of profit maximizing groundwater users to modifications (elimination, reduction, decoupling) of the subsidy to electricity frequently used for water pumping. It proposes a theoretical model, and numerically derives general results for a simplified case with homogeneous users. The model is applied to aquifers in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico and in Kern County, Calif...