The increasing level of official and academic information on Aboriginal issues on the Web enhances its utility in research and teaching. Aboriginal communities can also share Indigenous knowledges and perspectives, disseminate information to other indigenous communities and access the benefits of the knowledge society by adopting ICT. The use of search engines can save time in research and reve...

The common occurrence of adoption among birds and mammals presents evolutionary biologists with an explanatory challenge. The benefits to adoptees are self-evident, but the benefits to the adopter(s), the origin of the set of behaviours that constitute 'adoptive' behaviour, and the conditions for its spread in populations are not always clear. Explanations in terms of direct and indirect benefi...

We analyse how a country pursuing unilateral climate policy may contribute to reduction in global CO 2 emissions cost-effective way. To do so its system of energy taxes and subsidies must account for leakage from the domestic foreign economy. focus on occurring via international trade electricity shifts between production other goods. The optimal tax-subsidy scheme is based an intuitive princip...

india has experienced persistently high inflation in recent years, despite a period of below-trend economic growth. As a result, controlling inflation has become a key objective for policymakers. The two main indicators of inflation in india are the wholesale price index (Wpi) and the consumer price index (cpi). Although the Wpi has traditionally been the most widely used measure for assessing ...

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This paper looks at what is lost and gained through the process of translating international policy from a global to a local space. It does this by sharing results from a multisite ethnographic study of gender practices in foreign-funded South African health organisations. This study identifies a number of tactics used by practitioners to deal with the funding constraints and unique knowledge s...

A party develops its identity by adopting biased policy positions consistently over time. Existing rational voting models explain distinct party identities by assuming intrinsic policy-motivated parties or candidates. We show that distinct party identities may arise when parties are purely o ce-motivated in a dynamic setting with impressionable voters. In particular, a voter is more likely to v...

This article analyzes the costs and benefits of job rotation as a mechanism with which the firm can learn about the employees’ productivities and the profitability of different jobs or activities. I compare job rotation to an assignment policy where employees specialize in one job along their career. The gains from adopting a job rotation policy are larger when there is more prior uncertainty a...

New strategies to control U.S. health spending growth are urgently needed. Although provider payment cuts are likely, cutting fee-for-service (FFS) payments will hurt quality and access. A more sensible approach would be to restructure the delivery system into organized networks of providers delivering reliable, evidence-based care. But restructuring will not occur without payment policy reform...